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WASHINGTON – In a victory for border security efforts, legislation authored by U.S. Congressman August Pfluger (TX-11) and U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) became law. H.R. 4209, the DHS Illicit Cross-Border Tunnel Defense Act, was included in the National Defense Authorization Act of 2023 and signed into law on Friday. The legislation assists in securing the southern border by directing… Read more »

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman August Pfluger (TX-11) released a statement after voting no on the Democrats’ $1.7 Trillion 4,000 + page spending spree: “I was proud to vote no on Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Leader Chuck Schumer’s latest $1.7 Trillion spending spree. Democrats have once again proven themselves incapable of crafting a responsible fiscal agenda that meets the needs of… Read more »

Link to original format. December 23, 2022   I just voted no on the Democrats’ $1.7 Trillion, 4,000+ page spending bill that will make inflation… Read more »

WASHINGTON – Representatives August Pfluger (TX-11) and Elise Stefanik (NY-21) sent a letter to the Director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Dr. Rochelle P. Walensky decrying the removal of a CDC-commissioned study regarding defensive gun use (DGU) from the CDC website. The study was removed as a result of a private meeting held between the CDC And gun control… Read more »

Link to Original Format December 16, 2022   Chief of Staff of the Air Force Visits Goodfellow AFB   … Read more »

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman August Pfluger (TX-11) released a statement praising the report released by Republicans on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), led by Congressman Brad Wenstrup (OH-02), on the origins of COVID-19. Rep. August Pfluger: “The COVID-19 pandemic ended lives, closed businesses, destroyed livelihoods, devastated our economy, and robbed… Read more »

WASHINGTON, DC – Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-directed tech companies Hikvision, Dahua, Tiandy, and BGI provide the technological equipment used by the CCP to commit genocide against Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim ethnic groups in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR).  To hold these companies responsible for their human rights abuses, U.S. Representative August… Read more »

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman August Pfluger (TX-11) joined two of his West Texas colleagues, Representative Ronny Jackson (TX-13) and Representative Jodey Arrington (TX-19) in sending a letter to House and Senate Appropriations Committee leadership in support of Texas’ cotton industry. Specifically, the letter calls for funding for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA)… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Monday, Congressman August Pfluger (TX-11) and Colonel Matthew Reilman proudly hosted General Charles Q. Brown, Jr., the Chief of Staff of the Air Force, at Goodfellow Air Force Base (GAFB) for a tour of the base’s capabilities and needs. General Brown is the first Chief of Staff of the Air Force, and the highest-ranking official, to have ever visited… Read more »