Defense and National Security

Babin Responds to President Obama’s Final State of the Union Address

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Washington, DC – U.S. Representative Brian Babin (TX-36) issued the following statement this evening in response to President Obama’s final State of the Union address: “As expected, President Obama used his last State of the Union address as some sort of a delusional victory lap – filled with the same empty rhetoric and broken promises that has come to define his presidency. This is…

Babin: Iraqi Refugee Terror Plot Underscores Need to Immediately Suspend Program

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Washington, DC – U.S. Representative Brian Babin (TX-36), who is leading the charge in Congress to stop President Obama’s plans to bring in tens of thousands of Syrian refugees into the U.S., issued the following statement today after two Iraqi refugees were arrested in Houston and Sacramento in an ongoing ISIS terrorism investigation: “This is exactly why I'm working so hard to…

Babin reflects on first year in office and opportunities that lie ahead

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Cleveland Advocate By U.S. Rep. Brian Babin Congressional District 36 With each New Year, comes a time of reflection and review. As we turn the page on 2015, we must also use this opportunity to look forward and refocus our efforts on advancing and rebuilding the economic and national security of the United States of America. Through the course of the past year, it’s been an…

Babin Opposes Funding Bill that Fails to Address Refugee Concerns

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Washington, DC – U.S. Representative Brian Babin (TX-36), who is leading the charge in Congress to stop President Obama’s plans to bring in tens of thousands of Syrian refugees into the U.S., voted against the year-end government omnibus spending bill (H.R. 2029) because it failed to include much-needed provisions that he has fought so hard for to protect American citizens and stop…

Babin Urges House to Not Give Up on Fight to Stop Obama’s Dangerous Refugee Policies in Final Spending Bill

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Washington, DC – U.S. Rep. Brian Babin (TX-36), who is leading the effort with the support of 74 of his colleagues to include a provision in the year-end spending bill to pause and scrutinize the refugee resettlement program, took to the House floor last night to urge his colleagues to not give up on using the power of the purse to stop President Obama’s dangerous and reckless refugee…

Rep. Babin: Defund Refugee Resettlement

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Rep. Babin: Defund Refugee Resettlement NEWSMAX | By John Gizzi | Tuesday, 08 Dec 2015 | LINK Rep. Brian Babin hit back hard at the White House Monday over its opposition to his proposal to bar tax dollars from the Office of Refugee Resettlement in the federal spending bill. Babin told me that suspending the process of refugee requests for six months was something President…

Forts to Ports: Interstate 14 to provide much-needed upgrade to military deployment routes in Texas

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Forts to Ports: Interstate 14 to provide much-needed upgrade to military deployment routes in Texas Beaumont Business Journal | By Kevin King | Link An amendment to H.R. 22, the Surface Transportation Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2015, authorizing a new interstate that will improve military deployment routes from Army forts in Texas to the state’s ports was signed into law by…

Rep. Brian Babin: U.S. Should Bar Syrian Refugees to Protect Communities

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Newsmax TV's "Newsmax Now" By Todd Beamon | Tuesday, 01 Dec 2015 | Link Local communities "need to be warned" of Syrian refugees being settled in their neighborhoods, Rep. Brian Babin told Newsmax TV on Tuesday. "They need to be forewarned ... because they have little to no say from these federal contractors of these refugees that come into their communities," the Texas…

Babin Joined by 73 House Colleagues in Urging Action to Defund Obama’s Syrian Refugee Plan

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Washington, DC – U.S. Rep. Brian Babin (TX-36) was joined by 73 of his colleagues in sending a letter to Speaker Ryan, Majority Leader McCarthy and Appropriations Chairman Rogers asking that a provision be included in the upcoming year-end spending bill that would defund and suspend the President’s Syrian refugee plan pending further Congressional oversight and scrutiny over the refugee…

Support Grows for Rep. Babin Plan to Defund Refugee Plan

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SUPPORT GROWS FOR REP. BABIN PLAN TO DEFUND SYRIAN REFUGEE PLAN Breitbart | by Caroline May | Link A letter to House Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers (R-KY) requesting that the year-end spending bill feature language to fully defund refugee resettlement to the U.S. has 57 co-signers, according to the letter’s author Rep. Brian Babin…