President Biden has just concluded his first year in office and his repeated weakness on the world stage has emboldened our adversaries in Moscow, Beijing, and Tehran. Nowhere has Biden’s weakness been more apparent than with his inability to stand up to Vladimir Putin.

Biden has continued to show weakness in the face of Russian aggression against Ukraine by capitulating on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline and discussing the possibility of concessions.

MAKE NO MISTAKE: America’s national security crisis is a result of Joe Biden’s weakness. 

BIDEN’S NATIONAL SECURITY CRISIS

BIDEN'S AFGHANISTAN FAILURE: 

• President Biden is to blame for the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan. No one else. 
  • President Biden's disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan led to an unknown number of Americans being abandoned behind enemy lines in Afghanistan. 
  • The Taliban are now in possession of American weapons, including helicopters, airplanes, tanks, Humvees, and other military-grade weapons.

BIDEN'S FAILURE TO HOLD RUSSIA ACCOUNTABLE: 

• Biden caved and failed to sanction the now-complete Nord Stream II pipeline, giving Russia a stranglehold on European energy supplies. 
  • The Biden White House sent top officials to lobby Senate Democrats against Sen. Ted Cruz's (R-Texas) legislation, which would sanction Russian President Vladimir Putin's Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
  • Let that sink in: The President of the United States is now lobbying on behalf of Russian interests. 
• President Biden's weakness and inability to hold Russia accountable for their cyber-attacks resulted in the largest ransomware attack in HISTORY. 
  • In June, President Biden shared a list of critical infrastructure which he reportedly told Putin should be "off-limits" from Russian-backed cyberattacks. 
  • ALL of America should be off-limits from Russian-backed cyberattacks. 

BIDEN'S FAILURE TO HOLD CHINA ACCOUNTABLE FOR COVID: 

• President Biden and his administration have proven that they will not hold Communist China accountable for its lack of transparency and mishandling of the COVID-19 outbreak.
• Despite the mounting evidence that COVID-19 originated from a Chinese lab, House Democrats have not held a single hearing on the origins of COVID-19 despite House Republicans' numerous requests for investigation. 
• It's simple. China lied, and Americans died. They must be held accountable. 

BIDEN'S FAILURE TO STAND WITH ISRAEL:

• In March, President Biden quietly gave $75 million of US taxpayer dollars to the Palestinian Authority despite their "Pay to Slay" program.
• The Biden Administration is begging the Iranian terrorist regime to rejoin the failed Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal.
• Biden called for a ceasefire in the fight between Israel and Hamas when Israel was fighting to defend itself from Hamas bombings.
• President Biden has praised Far-Left Members of Congress for their "passion" after they called Israel a "terrorist" and "apartheid" state.
• The Biden Administration is planning to reopen the U.S. consulate for Palestinians in Jerusalem despite objections of the Israeli government.

BIDEN'S FAILURE TO STAND WITH THE CUBAN PEOPLE:

• The Biden Administration has refused to stand with the Cuban people in their fight for freedom.
• After 62 years of oppressive communist tyranny, the Cuban people are demanding an end to the murderous communist regime. The Biden Administration remained silent. 
• We must stand in solidarity with the Cuban people's fight for freedom, rally worldwide support, and lead on this issue. 

We need a leader that puts America FIRST, not our foreign adversaries. Russia, China, and radical Islamic terrorists are all stronger today because of Biden's actions

This week Speaker Nancy Pelosi a released competitiveness package totaling nearly 3,000 pages H.R. 4521  This is simply a partisan package cobbled together by Democratic leadership with no Republican input.

By combining competitiveness bills with partisan poison pills, H.R. 4521 undoes more than a year of bipartisan work by the House Science Committee to develop and pass comprehensive legislation to double investment in basic research.

The House Science Committee passed more than a dozen bills to strategically scale-up America's research and development capabilities over the next decade, ensuring the Chinese Communist Party does not achieve its goal of overtaking the U.S. in science and technology, giving them a dangerous economic and national security advantage.

Central to this work are the National Science for the Future Act and the Department of Energy Science for the Future Act, which passed the House with overwhelming bipartisan support in June. Ranking Member Lucas noted that while there are significant policy differences between these bills and the Senate's U.S. Innovation and Competition Act (USICA), there was a good possibility of finding a consensus agreement through a formal House and Senate conference.

The House Science Committee created strategic, smart, bipartisan bills that would ensure America’s leadership in science and technology over the next decade.  We have been urging Democratic leadership to begin conferencing these bills with the Senate since June, to no avail. And now that Speaker Pelosi has finally decided to act, she has done so with no regard for all of this bipartisan work. Instead of focusing on strong consensus policies, she’s filled her package with poison pills with no bipartisan support. 

This bill actually weakens our ability to deal with the malign influence from China. We cannot afford to play politics while the Chinese Communist Party threatens our economic and national security.

Last week House Science, Space, and Technology Committee also passed five bipartisan bills at a full committee markup. This legislation supports a wide variety of research and development touching on biomanufacturing, digital privacy, abandoned well remediation, nuclear energy, and microelectronics. The diversity of these bills demonstrate the incredible potential of the U.S. scientific enterprise. Whether it’s improving healthcare and food production through bioengineering or protecting the privacy of Americans online, my colleagues on the House Science Committee and are committed to bipartisan efforts to address the challenges of the future. 

The bills passed include:

H.R. 847, the Promoting Digital Privacy Technologies Act, which helps advance innovative technologies to protect Americans' personally identifiable information.

H.R. 4270, the Abandoned Well Remediation Research and Development Act, which authorizes research on how to locate, plug, claim, and repurpose wells, giving producers, landowners, and state and local governments better tools to reduce environmental impacts and promote clean energy production.

H.R. 4819, the National Nuclear University Research Infrastructure Reinvestment Act, which establishes university-based research reactors to help the Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program and the Low-Dose Radiation Program—critical to America's global leadership in the next generation of clean energy.

H.R. 6291, the Microelectronics Research for Energy Innovation Act, which helps address the decline of domestic semiconductor manufacturing and promotes advanced semiconductor development through cross-cutting research and development work.

• H.R. 6495 - To prohibit the Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration from accepting warrants for the arrest of aliens as valid proof of identification at aviation security checkpoints, and for other purposes.
• H.R. 6505 - To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a child tax credit for pregnant moms with respect to their unborn children, and for other purposes.
• H.Res. 883 - Recognizing National Sanctity of Human Life Day.

Friends, 

With Russia threatening to invade Ukraine, less than a third of voters want American troops deployed to defend against such an attack.

A new national telephone and online survey by Rasmussen Reports finds that only 31% of Likely U.S. voters think that if Russia attacks Ukraine, U.S. combat troops should be sent to help defend Ukraine. Thirty-six percent (36%) are against sending American troops to Ukraine, while 33% are undecided.

But I want to hear from you!

God Bless you and God Bless Texas!