Ted Poe

I would also suggest that we are propping up the wrong regime in Iran.

The next time that opportunity comes for us to weigh in and possibly help influence that, hopefully it has a different outcome for the other Iranians who want to lead their country in a much better direction.

Sex trafficking, to me, is the national problem dealing with crime. We should focus this--this issue, I think, is so big that we should spend a lot of time going after these bad guys, and then they should do a lot of time in the do-right…

As the band played the latest country western song, gunfire erupted from the 32nd floor window across the street. Twenty minutes later, when the shots stopped and the smoke cleared, 59 people were murdered and over 520 were wounded. The…

In the inky darkness of night, during the hammering rain of Harvey, reservoirs released even more water with little notice to people downstream. Meanwhile, hundreds of first responders battled the incessant rain, rising floodwaters, and…

Amendment in the nature of a substitute to H.R. 425 offered by the Honorable Ted Poe, a Representative in Congress from the State of Texas.

I support all the legislation. I also support Mr. Castro's amendment to my bill, the Foreign Terrorist Organization Passport Revocation bill.

As Hurricane Harvey's hammering floodwaters crept closer and closer to their home, Annie and her husband, Gary, became nervously anxious because, you see, Annie was pregnant and needed to get to the hospital. But the 2-mile drive to the…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I appreciate it, Congressman Weber, for allowing us to talk a little bit about Hurricane Harvey and what folks did down in the Texas area. While it was still raining hard, I get a phone call, and I…

Undaunted by the massive 50 inches of hammering rains and devastation of Hurricane Harvey, Texans quickly volunteered to help other water-soaked neighbors. Bay City High School Secretary Linda Leissner was manning the city's emergency…

Arctic Circle in Eureka, California, used to be a place where you could get a great burger and a cold milkshake. But not anymore thanks to a lawsuit. A serial plaintiff alleged that their counters were too high and their doors were not…

The country is recovering from natural disasters that are taking place all over our land: on the West Coast and the Northwest, we have the wildfires; over the weekend, we had Hurricane Irma going through Florida, now through the…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you all for being here. I think always when we make big decisions, we should look at history.

I appreciate the time. I want to talk about what has been occurring in southeast Texas for the last several weeks. I represent part of the Houston area, north Houston and into other areas of Harris County. Houston is one of many cities in…

I thank Judge Green, once again, as I like to refer to the gentleman for all his work here in Congress helping out folks in Texas, and I will continue to work with the gentleman. Mr. Speaker, I have talked quite a bit about the floods. I…

Good, Mr. Speaker. I will look at the clock and make sure I don't go overboard here. In Houston, a woman went into labor as Hurricane Harvey flood waters began to rise. She was helped, likewise, by a rescue truck of neighbors and…

I thank the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Al Green). He and I are very close friends, Mr. Speaker. We both became lawyers the same year in 1973. We worked at the courthouse. I was a prosecutor, and he was a defense lawyer in Houston. We did…

I thank the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Frelinghuysen) for yielding me time. Mr. Speaker, my Houston area has suffered a historic hurricane, one that really changed the lives of all the people who were affected. My district was hammered…

As Hurricane Harvey rampaged across Texas, the heavens opened up and 50 inches of rain hammered down on the Houston area. After 2 days of hard rain, on August 27, 60-year-old Houston Police Officer Sergeant Steve Perez got up, as he does…

Let me--this is Megan Rondini. This is the way she looked when she was a student. We have heard a lot about her, as we should. But now I want to talk about the family of the alleged perpetrator, Sweet T, and the Bunn family. Well-known…

I want to talk today about a person, a person that I never got to meet, but this is her story, and this is her story from her point of view and the information that I have received from people who knew her, including her parents, her aunt…

Jennifer Mamola represents the very best of America. She volunteered for the Peace Corps at 26 and served in Uganda. While there, tragically, she was hit from behind by a drunk driver, breaking both of her legs. Her life changed forever…

Having lived in Texas all my life, I, like many other Texans, have been to the Texas border numerous times. I have been to the border from San Diego to Brownsville while I have been in Congress, the entire length of the border. Some things…

Christians are particularly singled out for persecution. Bibles are outlawed.

If we look around the world there is no greater violator of human rights than North Korea.