120+ Business Leaders Call for State-Sponsored Immigrant Work Permits - Concerned about congressional inaction on immigration reform and unprecedented labor shortages, 126 U.S. business leaders penned a letter to President Biden urging his administration to allow states to sponsor work permits for immigrant workers to fill open jobs based on the states' individual workforce needs. With 10.1 Million open jobs and not enough unemployed Americans to fill them, the proposed policy that has received bipartisan support from governors would help to reduce inflation and increase economic growth.
President Biden was in the Room with Hunter - House Republicans revealed the testimony of two International Revenue Service (IRS) whistleblowers working on Hunter Biden's tax evasion case. The whistleblowers outline direct corruption at the IRS, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Biden Department of Justice (DOJ) in the investigation of Hunter Biden. Notably, the whistleblower exposed a WhatsApp message stating that Joe Biden was with Hunter when he demanded money from Chinese national Henry Zhao. Zhao's company paid Hunter at least $100,000. This contradicts Joe Biden's repeated statements on the campaign trail in 2019 when he said "I have never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings."
Energy and Water Appropriations Bill Advanced by Gonzales Includes Support for Oil and Gas Industry - The Biden Administration’s radical ‘rush-to-green’ agenda must be stopped – we cannot devastate our economy by surrendering to half-baked green ideas. We have abundant, safe, and reliable energy resources right here in Texas, but President Biden refuses to cut the red tape surrounding our energy permitting processes,” said Congressman Gonzales upon voting to advance the House Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations bill.
Sen. Cruz Leading Bipartisan Effort to Get Texas-Mexico Border Bridges Built - U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today led a bicameral, bipartisan coalition of federal lawmakers representing Texas border communities in sending a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken urging him to resolve delays in providing permits for key cross-border bridge projects between the United States and Mexico in Brownsville, Laredo, and Eagle Pass, Texas. Joining Sen. Cruz in sending the letter are Sen. John Cornyn, and U.S. Representatives Vicente Gonzalez, Henry Cuellar, Tony Gonzales, and Monica De La Cruz. The lawmakers write that these bridge projects are economically vital to Texas
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