Friends,

I hope everyone had a great week. I'm looking forward to a busy week in Washington, DC.

Next week, my Energy & Commerce Committee will hold a couple of hearings on important issues impacting Texas. In the Health Subcommittee we will discuss Medicaid reimbursements at the State level, an issue that impacts many hospitals across our region.

Additionally, in the Oversight & Investigations Subcommittee we will look into the Change Health cyber-attack that hit our nation's largest healthcare payments provider. Specifically, we will examine how it happened, why it happened and what we can do to prevent future attacks. The cyber-attack caused major disruptions to many independent and small medical practices that cannot go unchecked.

Don't forget, Friday we will announce our District's winner of the Congressional Art Competition at an event at the Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts. Details to register to attend are below. I hope to see you there!

Sincerely,

Please join me at the 2024 Congressional Art Competition on May 3rd from 5-7PM at the Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts in Spring. At this event, you will be able to learn about the constituent services offered by our office and see the works of art submitted by high school students in the 2nd Congressional District. We will be announcing the winner of the competition at the event, whose piece of art will be hung in the halls of the Capitol for the next year. To register, please scan the QR code in the graphic, or click the link here.

It was great to have China expert Michael Sobolik return to the podcast to discuss America’s new cold war with the Chinese Communist Party. We discussed the CCP’s strategies – imperialism, the Belt and Road Initiative, and weaponizing America’s own free speech – to displace the U.S. as the leading global superpower. He shared a strategic vision for how America can defeat the CCP by exploiting their own vulnerabilities and building upon our alliances with friendly East Asian neighbors like Japan and Australia.

Michael Sobolik is the author of the just-released book “Countering China’s Great Game: A Strategy for American Dominance.” He is a Senior Fellow in Indo-Pacific Studies at the American Foreign Policy Council. He previously served as a legislative assistant for Senator Ted Cruz, drafting legislation on China, Russia, India, Taiwan, North Korea, and Cambodia, as well as strategic systems and missile defense. Find him on X at @michaelsobolik and listen to him on Great Power Podcast.

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