Congressman Poe visits Goose Creek ISD

During his visit, Congressman Poe thanked students for making Christmas cards for the troops.

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Congressman Poe visits Goose Creek ISD

During his visit, Congressman Poe thanked students for making Christmas cards for the troops. Goose Creek ISD was one of the top card collectors.

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Congressman Poe visits Alamo Elementary

During his visit, Congressman Poe thanked students for making Christmas cards for the troops. Alamo Elementary collected 5,000 cards.

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Congressman Poe visits Sterling High School in Baytown

During his visit, Congressman Poe thanked students for making Christmas cards for the troops. Sterling High School collected 24,429 cards.

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Congressman Poe, Congresswoman Maloney, Senator Cornyn, and Senator Bennet host SAFER Act Press Conference 2012

The SAFER Act aims to reduce rape kit DNA backlogs nationwide.

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Congressman Poe’s annual Military Christmas Card Drive

This year, Baytown collected more than 50,000 Christmas cards with the help of schools, churches, and organizations.

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Congressman Poe’s annual Military Christmas Card Drive

This year, Baytown collected more than 50,000 Christmas cards with the help of schools, churches, and organizations.

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Congressman Poe with Congresswoman Maloney and Scott Berkowitz, President of RAINN

Congressman Poe, Congressman Maloney, Senator Cornyn, and Senator Bennet hosted SAFER Act Press Conference 2012.

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Congressman Poe, Congressman Maloney, Senator Cornyn, and Senator Bennet hosted SAFER Act Press Conference 2012.

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TAKE THEM BACK HOME

WASHINGTON, December 12 - CLICK HERE TO WATCH Mr. Speaker, According to the Boston Globe, Qian Wu was beaten, choked, punched, and held at knifepoint by Chinese national Huang Chen. That was in 2006. Her attacker was sent to prison in Exas, supposedly never to be heard of again....

WE GOT HERE BY SPENDING TOO MUCH, NOT TAXING TOO LITTLE

WASHINGTON, December 11 - CLICK HERE TO WATCH Mr. Speaker, "The last thing you want to do is to raise taxes in the middle of a recession because that would put businesses in a further hole.'' That was President Obama in 2009. But that was then and this is...

PULSE OF TEXAS: GLENN FROM KINGWOOD, TEXAS

WASHINGTON, December 5 - CLICK HERE TO WATCH Mr. Speaker, Glenn from Kingwood, Texas wrote me this: “Starting at the age of 15, I worked any job I could to help support myself through college. Manually dug ditches, construction work, plant work. After college, I found an entry level...

SAFER ACT FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT VICTIMS

WASHINGTON, December 4 - CLICK HERE TO WATCH Mr. Speaker, One of the most marvelous scientific breakthroughs in the criminal justice system has been DNA evidence. I remember when I was a judge in the courthouse when DNA started being used at the courtroom. Prior to DNA, many times prosecutors...

CHRISTMAS CARDS AND HOLIDAY CARDS FOR OUR TROOPS

Mr. Speaker, On Christmas Day, most of us will wake up with our families, the smell of Turkey in the oven, and homemade apple pie, but on the other side of the world, there are men and women who will wake up in the middle of the...

GOVERNMENT GONE WILD

WASHINGTON, November 30 - CLICK HERE TO WATCH Mr. Speaker, The President has finally given us his balanced plan to allegedly avoid the fiscal cliff. He wants to raise taxes by $1.6 trillion. He wants another stimulus package of $50 billion. He wants the authority to raise the debt ceiling...

HOUSE PASSES FRANK BUCKLES WWI MEMORIAL ACT

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the House unanimously passed H.R. 6364, the bipartisan Frank Buckles WWI Memorial Act. The bill was introduced by Congressman Ted Poe (R-TX) along with Congressman Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) and Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC). This legislation (1) establishes a commission to commemorate the... Read more

STATEMENT ON PEARL HARBOR

“December 7, 1941, a date that will live in infamy,'' were words spoken by President Franklin D. Roosevelt that became forever embedded in the hearts and minds of patriots across our land, igniting and launching a nation into the fiery trenches of battle. Those of that Greatest... Read more

HOUSE NATURAL RESOURCES COMMITTEE PASSES FRANK BUCKLES WWI MEMORIAL ACT

WASHINGTON, D.C.--Today, the House Natural Resources Committee passed H.R. 6364, the Frank Buckles WWI Memorial Act, by unanimous consent. The bill was introduced by Congressman Ted Poe (R-TX) along with Congressman Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) and Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC). This bipartisan legislation would (1) establish a... Read more

REPS. POE & MALONEY INTRODUCE THE SAFER ACT OF 2012

Washington, DC –Today, Congressman Ted Poe (R-TX) and Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) introduced H.R. 6628, The Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence Registry (SAFER) Act of 2012. This bipartisan bill will help law enforcement process rape kits. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) and Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO) introduced the Senate... Read more

POE VOTES “YES” ON STEM JOBS ACT

Washington, D.C. –Today, Congressman Ted Poe (TX-02) voted in favor of H.R. 6429, the STEM Jobs Act, a bipartisan bill that will boost global competitiveness, generate more jobs, and stimulate our economy by enhancing the green card system for foreign graduates of American universities who obtain degrees... Read more

CONGRESSMAN POE PRESSES DEFENSE SECRETARY PANETTA FOR ANSWERS

  WASHINGTON, D.C. - This week, Congressman Ted Poe (TX-02) sent a letter to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, inquiring into the source of weapons used in the September 12 terrorist attack in Benghazi. In the letter, Congressman Poe asked Secretary Panetta if the United States had furnished any... Read more

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“The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of a recession because that would take more demand out of the economy and put business in...

~President Obama

"Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may."

~Sam Houston

“I place economy among the first and most important of republican virtues, public debt as the greatest of dangers to be feared.”

~Thomas Jefferson