George Randall got to George Bush Intercontinental Airport on Monday, three hours before his flight to California was scheduled to take off. He anticipated a long wait in security due to a shortage in TSA agents who haven’t been showing up to work because they haven’t been paid since mid-February.  But knowing ahead of time that the airport experience is going to be a nightmare… Read more »

Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) signed a discharge petition to force a vote on H.R. 7481, legislation to fund all of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) except for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP).  The effort comes as Democrats continue to demand reforms to ICE and CBP as federal agents have arrested and killed… Read more »

Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) voted against H.J.Res. 139, a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution to require annual balanced federal budgets. “If Republicans were serious about fiscal responsibility, they would not have passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act last summer that adds $3.4 trillion to the deficit,” said Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher.  “And… Read more »

Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07), Congresswoman Val Hoyle (OR-04), and Congressman Joe Neguse (CO-02) led 27 of their House colleagues in sending a letter to the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies requesting that Congress fund the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) at a… Read more »

Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) joined Congressional Freethought Caucus Co-Chairs Representative Jared Huffman (CA-02) and Jamie Raskin (MD-08), House Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Personnel Ranking Member Chrissy Houlahan (PA-06), and 26 of their colleagues in requesting U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) Inspector General Platte B. Moring III open an investigation into… Read more »

Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) voted for H.Con.Res.38, a resolution to direct President Trump to terminate the use of the United States Armed Forces from hostilities against Iran unless Congress explicitly makes a declaration of war or authorizes use of military force against Iran. "The United States Constitution provides that Congress has the sole authority and solemn… Read more »

Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) voted against the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, H.R. 7744.  She introduced an amendment to H.R. 7744 to stop the rapid recruitment of unvetted individuals at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), but Republicans blocked its consideration. “The Homeland Security funding bill presented to the House today… Read more »

Reaction among Fort Bend County's representatives in the U.S. Congress and the Texas Legislature to the U.S. and Israel-launched war on Iran were mixed, and broke largely along party lines. President Trump announced the launch of the attack shortly after the strikes began early Saturday morning, saying in a post on his Truth Social network that the Islamicist regime that has ruled the… Read more »

Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) released the following statement after the United States and Israel attacked Iran, and President Trump called for change in Iran’s government: “Today, President Trump announced that he has taken unilateral action to start a war with Iran without authorization from Congress—the representatives of the people—that threatens to put the United… Read more »

Texas lawmakers split sharply on Saturday after President Trump ordered joint U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran, with Republicans praising the operation as overdue force and Democrats warning it was unauthorized and dangerously escalatory. A joint strike hit Iran on Saturday, and Mr. Trump said Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had been killed. The White House described the… Read more »