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Link to original format December 30, 2022   Reporting on a Successful First Term   Thank you for the opportunity to serve the 11th District of Texas in Congress. We are proud of the progress made in the last two years championing conservative values and standing up for our Texas way of life.   Read below or click here to view our 117th Congress in Review.… Read more »

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman August Pfluger (TX-11) honored Midland local and World War II Veteran Don McSparran in a speech on the Floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. In addition to his military service, Mr. McSparran has volunteered with the Midland Police Department for the past twenty-two years, impacting countless lives and strengthening the community.   Remarks as… Read more »

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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 »