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Austin, Texas
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Joined February 2008
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    2 hours ago

    Over the past year Texas added more jobs than any other state & our unemployment rate remains at historic low.

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    6 hours ago

    Dispositive of my tweets earlier that is keeping part of the government shuttered b/c he will not agree to spend $5 billion of the $4 trillion in federal spending on border security. Fact: is keeping the government closed.

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    Senate Minority Leader Schumer: "President Trump, if you want to open the government, you must abandon the wall -- plain and simple."
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    7 hours ago

    I’m glad productive discussions are continuing between our Democratic colleagues and the White House. When those negotiations produce a solution that can pass the Senate and the House and receive ’s signature, it will receive a vote on the Senate floor.

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  4. 8 hours ago

    Thanks to more prisoners will have a second chance to turn their lives around and public safety will be improved

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    8 hours ago

    DOJ indicts two Chinese nationals accused of working in association with Chinese state security, in what the department called an “unrelenting effort” to steal U.S. commercial and defense technology going back more than a decade.

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    9 hours ago

    It is true that a DACA-for-border barrier opportunity was missed last year. Also true said he would own the shutdown after said he didn’t have votes in house. Also true did have votes in house. Also true: is keeping govt shut.

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    Dec 21

    Good news. The House just agreed to pass the 6 month extension of Flood Insurance which expires tonight.

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    23 hours ago

    How extreme House Dems are on immigration: *177 rejected $5.7B in border security *166 voted against Kate’s Law (increases penalties on repeat offenders) *174 opposed empowering law enforcement to fight criminal alien gangs *52 cosponsored a bill to safeguard sanctuary cities

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    9 hours ago

    Read this. It is astonishing. I have scores of journalists on my radio show and have for all of its 19 years. We often disagree but I have never known a one of them to simply lie. This guy is an outlier. Pre-emptive tweet: This story says nothing about MSM

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  10. 9 hours ago

    Demi Lovato: ‘I Am Sober and Grateful to Be Alive’ – Rolling Stone

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    12 hours ago

    Good morning. A portion of the federal government closed for business overnight because won’t provide $5 billion from $4 trillion+ spending on border barriers. was elected president in part on promise of those barriers. It’s the 2.0

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  12. 10 hours ago

    Happy Birthday, Ted: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is 48

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    11 hours ago

    Do you have some issue with the statement that a large majority of lawmakers on Capitol Hill are not lawyers?

    Replying to @ByronYork
    While 0.6 percent of the U.S. adult population are lawyers, 41 percent of the 113th Congress are. Members of Congress are sixty-eight times as likely as all American adults to have practiced law. - Easy Google search.
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    Dec 21

    . is at it again. Which will he choose? An open government and funding to secure our border, or more political games?

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  15. 12 hours ago

    POTUS signed 6 Cornyn-sponsored bills into law yesterday: Abolish Human Trafficking Act, Cybertipline Modernization Act, Port of Entry Threat Assessment and Op Review Act, Pleasanton Post Office, Encinal Post Office, and, of course, First Step Act.

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    Dec 21

    Today’s motion to proceed vote, which began at 12:31pm and ended at 5:49pm (5 hours and 18 minutes), became the longest vote in modern Senate history, beating out BY ONE MINUTE a vote on the Economic Recovery Act in February 2009 which lasted 5 hours and 17 minutes.

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    Dec 21

    In 2013, every Senate Democrat voted for $46 billion in border security and 700 miles of fencing. ?

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  18. Dec 21

    Thanks

    Pins being worn by a number of Senators on floor
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  19. Dec 21

    Pins being worn by a number of Senators on floor

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    Dec 21

    Happening now: President signs S. 756, the First Step Act, and H.R. 6964, the Juvenile Justice Reform Act!

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