Ted Poe

In my opinion the foreign aid process is a mess. Fifty years after a Foreign Aid Authorization Act the process is still what President Kennedy called bureaucratic, fragmented, awkward, and slow.

In the days of merry old England, King James commissioned the translation of the Bible into English. He made it possible for the common man to have access to the Scriptures. This is the 400-year anniversary of the 1611 translation of the…

Ashton Cline-McMurry, a 16-year-old kid with cerebral palsy, was walking home from a football game in Massachusetts when he was ambushed, beaten, stabbed, and murdered. One of the killers, Loeun Heng, an illegal from Cambodia, was sent to…

On December 14, Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was murdered in Arizona by bandits crossing into the United States. Border agents approached armed invaders carrying AK-47s. A shootout occurred where Terry was shot and killed. Now, there is…

What are we doing besides talking? It just seems to me, when all is said and done, more is said than done.

I sincerely just hope that the United States is able to use its prestige to encourage Iraq to let these people live in peace.

But what has happened? Let's just talk about one side at a time.

Gasoline is nearly $4 a gallon. Meanwhile, the administration seems to have a deliberate crusade against the U.S. energy industry and domestic energy independence. Even before Steven Chu became Energy Secretary he said: ``Somehow we have…

But what are we doing?

I agree with the ranking member, Mr. Sherman, that we ought to look at the most favored nation status that we bequeathed on China.

The lone survivor, the last doughboy of World War I, Frank Buckles, has died at the age of 110. This photograph of Frank Buckles was taken when he was 16 years of age. He lied to numerous recruiters so he could join the United States Army…

It's their legalized theft and their sort of old-fashioned stealing.

It seems to me that China operates under two systems, legalized theft and just old-fashioned theft.

The pirates are back. These are not the Blackbeard, eye-patched, hook-for-a-hand, peg-legged kind of pirates from the Hollywood movies. The modern-day pirates are skilled, rich, violent, armed with automatic weapons, and are driven by a…

There are thousands of foreign criminals in the United States prisons. Up to 19 percent of our jails house criminal aliens. These do not include immigration violations either. They have been convicted of everything from rape, robbery and…

Houses were shut tight, and cloth wedged around doors and windows, but the dust came in so thinly that it could not be seen in the air, and it settled like pollen on the chairs and tables, on the dishes. Ma and Pa Joad did everything they…

Last Thursday was just a normal day in Houston, Texas. Seven families left their babies at Jackie's Childcare, and went along to work just as they did every day. A daycare is supposed to be a place where parents trust caregivers with the…

It has been 5 months since David Hartley was brutally murdered by pirates on Falcon Lake. His body remains missing, and those responsible for this border murder remain at large. Shamefully, the only American peace officer apparently still…

The border war continues, and there is no end in sight. This week, President Calderon of Mexico is coming back to Washington D.C. He is going to meet with our President. It will be interesting to see if he continues to blame America for…

I think there is no greater tyrant on Earth than the little fellow from the desert, Ahmadinejad, and the way he treats his people.

I believe, like you, that deep down in our soul everybody in the whole world has this burning desire for freedom.

We have come to the end of a long chapter in American history. The lone U.S. survivor of World War I, Frank Buckles, has died at the incredible age of 110. At 16, Frank Buckles lied about his age so he could join the Army in 1917 and go…

Last year the military received over 3,000 reports of sexual assault involving other members in the service. This week, 17 veterans are saying that the military ignored their cases of sexual assault while they were on active duty. These…

The issue is, is this constitutional? It's not whether it's a great idea, whether an individual mandate is going to save us all. The issue is whether it's constitutional. Now I do not believe the Constitution gives the Federal Government…

This issue is an issue of public safety, which is the first obligation of the Federal Government, to protect the people, to protect the homeland. And that is why it's important the Federal Government get out of the way of the State of…