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Ted Poe

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Ted Poe is a former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, serving Texas's 2nd congressional district from 2005 to 2019. Born on October 10, 1948, Poe is a former judge and prosecutor, bringing a legal background to his political career. During his time in Congress, he was known for his strong stance on issues such as national security, immigration, and crime. Poe was a member of the House Judiciary Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee, where he advocated for various legislative measures related to these areas.

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Jul 18, 2006

our President was caught on camera, on microphone, and off the cuff yesterday. He said: ``What they need to do is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this (nonsense), and it's over.'' He told Tony Blair he felt like telling U.N…

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Jul 17, 2006

in west Texas, rattlesnakes are king. They are deadly. They are poisonous. In the vastness of the heat, these snakes roam every town, every ranch. No place is safe, especially in the summer. When their well-known rattle whistles through…

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Jul 17, 2006

news from the second front: The border war continues. It sounds like a scene from Lonesome Dove or some other western movie. Hundreds of shots were ringing out over the Rio Grande River, piercing the night for a period of minutes. But…

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Jul 13, 2006

Americans are fed up. They are worn out, burned out and pocketed out of taking care of illegals who come here and expect a handout and a free ride, and now Americans, they are speaking out. Recently, taxpayers in Houston forked out over…

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Jul 13, 2006

our individual heritage of the past is important, but our future as Americans is more important. Many Americans trace their past through Ellis Island. Mrs. Maribeth Burgess Ray of Baytown, Texas, recently went there, and she says: ``While…

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Jul 12, 2006

Joe Carcamo, an illegal El Salvadoran, had 17 driving violations when he drunkenly was drag racing down a Michigan street and hit two teenagers. He was driving 75 miles an hour. He cracked the skull of one of them and the other girl lost…

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Jul 12, 2006

more news from the front: The border war continues. Our terrorist field hearings last week proved one thing: The vulnerabilities on our southern border are monumental. But it is not just our southern border coming under attack. It is…

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Jul 11, 2006

more news from the front. Our battle for the border continues, and so does the hypocrisy from El Presidente Generalissimo Fox. So intent on tearing down American barriers, he is more intent on building his own, and he has taken millions of…

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Jul 11, 2006

the State of Texas is a little richer today. But the money found along our border was not American money; it was money from the Middle East. A Sudanese dinar was found not too long ago along the Texas-Mexico border. This type of money is a…

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Jul 10, 2006

after spending last week with the Terrorism Subcommittee hearing testimony from the people who live and work on our southern border, the realization of the problem for failure to protect the border from invaders was dramatically told by…

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Jun 29, 2006

Americans who live on the border are victimized by criminal invaders every day and they are fed up with it. They are tired of a weak immigration policy, but even more sick and tired of the Mexican Government trying to control American…

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Jun 29, 2006

as we are approaching the 4th of July, it was 230 years ago, this signing of the Declaration of Independence. But it wasn't until after the War of 1812 this holiday became more meaningful to Americans. It was after our young Nation had to…

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Jun 29, 2006

this amendment provides a universal document. Every country in the world requires passports to enter their nation. A passport is a secure document. Why are we trying to invent another type of identification, or multiple types of…

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Jun 27, 2006

more than 30 years ago, Alberto and Olga Sanchez decided to leave the dusty border town of Renosa, Mexico, and immigrate to Texas with their small child, Alberto, Jr. Alberto grew up in Houston and went to Milby High School. After high…

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Jun 27, 2006

I thank the chairman on behalf of victims of crime and the Victims Rights Caucus and the criminal justice professionals, and I thank you for your support.

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Jun 27, 2006

tonight there is one less brutal murderer in Texas. Angel Maturino Resendiz is gone. He has been executed, ending one of the most brutal reigns of terror a serial killer has ever known. Some called him the face of death. He rode the rails…

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Jun 26, 2006

news from the front. The border war continues. Generalissimo Fox and the Mexican media have taken a setback in the illegal invasion of the United States. Illegal border crossings and detentions have dropped 21 percent in just 10 days. The…

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Jun 22, 2006

more news from the front. The border war continues, and today this dispatch comes from the weakest 272 miles on the second border of our Nation. This could be a postcard from that front, snapshots of illegals all across the beaches here…

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Jun 22, 2006

in the border security debate, those that want to allow more illegals in this country just changed the definition of words to make it politically correct to accept illegals. But American citizens are not fooled. Donald Doiron of Nederland…

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Jun 21, 2006

judicial injustice has struck again. That is what has happened in Ohio. After 6 years of waiting to face the man who raped her and tell her horror at his hands so he would be off the streets, a teen saw her chances for justice smashed with…

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Jun 20, 2006

they were called the Screaming Eagles of World War II. They jumped into Normandy into the wet darkness of the night before sunrise on D-Day, June 6, 1944. They held off the Germans in the dead of winter in the Battle of the Bulge in a…

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Jun 20, 2006

a hypocrite always practices what he preaches against. And while Vicente Fox took a whirlwind tour of the United States acting like an old-fashioned revival preacher preaching open borders, trying to intimidate Americans into allowing the…

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Jun 19, 2006

news from the front: The battle for the border continues. The cost to Americans for the government's failure to prevent the invasion onto our shores increases. Last year in my hometown of Houston, citizens spent $125 million on treating…

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Jun 16, 2006

a self-claimed sadistic pervert, Jerry Inman, is branded with tattoos of skulls, daggers, bats and the pentagram, the symbol of hell. The two-time convicted sex offender, after serving time in two southern States for several rapes…

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Jun 16, 2006

news from the front: the war on the border continues. More disturbing news, this time from the forgotten front. We have just voted to finish successfully the war on the first front, Iraq and Afghanistan. Our second front is the fight…

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