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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.
as Americans worry about the economy, Washington is using the politics of fear to promote a so-called stimulus package. This $800 billion bill will cost every man, woman, child and illegal in the United States about $2,700. However, we're…
we've heard a lot about stimulating the economy. We've passed legislation to stimulate the economy. The Senate is doing the same thing. It's all in the effort to get us out of this economic slump that we are going to supposedly pass…
more fallout continues from the bailout. Congress gave the people's money to AIG last year in the amount of $152 billion. AIG has decided to spend $400 million on bonuses for 400 executives. That sounds like about $1 million per executive…
I rise in support of H.R. 738, the Death in Custody Reporting Act of 2009. The Death in Custody Reporting Act of 2000 directs the Bureau of Justice Statistics within the Department of Justice to collect data on deaths that occur in two…
The purpose of this bill has to do with stalking. A few years ago, most of us didn't even know what stalking was. And now, most Americans know someone or personally have been affected by a stalker out there, whether it's a physical stalker…
I bring you news from the second front. The second front is the border war on the southern border of the United States between America and Mexico. It is important that America understand that there is a violent atmosphere in Mexico, our…
they say the economy is going into the abyss because government doesn't spend enough money. Even though the stimulus packages of last year didn't work and the billions to bail out the elite robber baron banks hasn't been effective, the…
as a final act by President Bush, border agents and political prisoners Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos were granted a commutation of their harsh prison sentence. Thanks to the work of many Members of Congress, some in the media, and, most…
well, it has finally happened. Mr. Speaker, President Bush, in one of his last acts as President of the United States, commuted the sentences of political prisoners Border Patrol agents Ramos and Compean who were just doing their job down…
oh, how things have changed. Time was, when you borrowed money from a bank, the bank wanted to know what the money was going to be used for, and you were required to fill out a bunch of forms to receive that money. Now the big banks have…
I think the ranking member said it best yesterday when there were hearings on this that there was a time in this country when the people would go to the bank and borrow money from the bank. My grandfather was a banker for a good number of…
as the fighting in the Middle East rages on, many in the media and the elites in Europe have asserted with self-righteous indignation that Israel's response to Hamas' acts of terror is not appropriate, and Israel should unilaterally cease…
Mr. Speaker, we are a bailout Nation, the Nation of handouts, the Nation of gimmees. The entitlement mentality has swept this country, especially last year, and it has done so, more importantly, with the elites, like the banks who think…
the U.N. Human Rights Council, a bastion of hypocritical countries, such as Saudi Arabia, that publicly whip women who have been raped, claiming rape is the woman's fault, has now self-righteously condemned Israel for defending itself from…
I bring you news from the people. Boy Scout Daniel Wolf of Spring, Texas, wrote me the following about our economic crisis. ``I am concerned about my generation paying for the mistakes that the government is making. It's just not fair…
this time of year, we all hear about New Year's resolutions. Some of us make them, some of us make them and break them, and some of us don't even make them. But maybe Uncle Sam needs to make a few New Year's resolutions as we go into 2009…
Hamas is a rogue group of outlaws that hibernate in Palestinian civilian areas of Gaza and fire Iranian missiles into Israel. Israel has received hundreds of these missile attacks in the last few days, thousands in the last few years…
Israel and Hamas are at war. But make no mistake about it, it's the little fellow from Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and his radical religious cronies of hate that are the ones that are behind this troubling turmoil in the lands of the Middle…
Israel and Hamas are fighting each other in the Gaza Strip. The question is, what is this fighting all about? For centuries, the Jews and Muslims have fought over a strip of land in what we call the Holy Land called the Gaza Strip. It's a…
the radical hate group Hamas in Gaza has refused to renew a truce with Israel. It has begun once more firing thousands of Iranian-made rockets into Israel. Numerous Israelis have died in the last 11 days. Hamas wants to annihilate Israel…
the speech police are at it again. This time they want to police and control the radio airwaves. I'm not talking about the former Soviet Union that controlled what Russians listened to on the radio, I'm talking about the American speech…
who do we fight against? We have been at war in Iraq and Afghanistan for years. We heard that we are fighting a war on terror. But what does that mean? Who are the people at war with America? Now, after all this time, our government has…
So the lesson for today is: Where does the oil pollution from off our coasts come from? Let's keep it simple. This is a chart. This is a chart that shows oil pollution from off our coasts. It comes from the National Academy of Sciences. It…
the number one polluter of oil off our coast is Mother Nature. Crude oil seeps to the surface, and Mother Nature causes 62 percent of the crude oil pollution off our coast. So the way we resolve this problem and get even with Mother Nature…
the New York Times called it the ``nightmare'' killings of Haditha, Iraq, and the ``defining atrocity'' of the Iraq War. Maureen Dowd of the New York Times referred to the incident as the ``My Lai Acid Flashback.'' Another New York Times…
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