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…

Babin Votes to Strengthen Vetting Process for Refugees

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Washington, DC – U.S. Rep. Brian Babin (TX-36) joined a bipartisan, veto-proof majority today in passing H.R. 4038, which requires the heads of the FBI, DHS and DNI to personally certify the background investigation of each refugee coming into the United States.  Babin, who has been a leader on the refugee issue, introduced legislation back in July to place an…

Support Grows for Babin’s Letter to House Leadership on Defunding Obama’s Syrian Refugee Plan

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Washington, DC – U.S. Rep. Brian Babin (TX-36), who introduced legislation back in July to block President Obama’s Syrian refugee plan, is currently in the process of circulating a letter to Speaker Paul Ryan and Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers asking that there be a provision included in the year-end spending bill to fully defund and prevent new refugee resettlements. The letter,…

Babin: Paris Terrorist Attack Shows Why We Must Block Obama’s Syrian Refugee Plan

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Washington, DC – U.S. Rep. Brian Babin (TX-36), who has been sounding the alarm and leading the effort in Congress to block President Obama’s Syrian refugee plan, is urging immediate action on his Resettlement Accountability National Security Act (H.R. 3314), as well as leading a letter to House leadership asking that a provision be included in the year-end spending bill that defunds the…

House Sends Crucial Commercial Space Bill to President’s Desk

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Washington, D.C. – House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), House Science, Space, and Technology Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas), and Space Subcommittee Chairman Brian Babin (R-Texas) today praised passage of crucial legislation that provides guidance and certainty for American commercial space partners. The bicameral, bipartisan agreement on H.R. 2262, the U.S.…

Vietnam veteran receives belated Purple Heart in Woodville

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Vietnam veteran receives belated Purple Heart in Woodville Beaumont Enterprise By Manuella Libardi | Nov. 12, 2015 Link On May 13, 1969, Craig Metcalf crouched down on the ridges of Hill 937 in South Vietnam, putting pressure with his hand on a wound he had sustained to his upper-right thigh. The 21-year-old radio and telephone operator from Woodville had been moving up the steep…

House Unanimously Approves Two Key Highway Bill Amendments Championed by Babin

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Washington, DC – Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives unanimously approved two amendments put forth by U.S. Rep. Brian Babin (TX-36) to a multi-year surface transportation bill that overwhelmingly passed the House.   The first amendment, which Rep. Babin co-authored with Rep. Blake Farenthold (TX-27), would ensure the same weight limits that are in place right now for…

Babin: Obama Should Be Ashamed of Keystone Rejection

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Washington, DC – U.S. Representative Brian Babin (TX-36) issued the following statement today after President Obama rejected the Keystone XL Pipeline: "While the President’s decision is certainly not surprising, it is nonetheless the wrong one for America.  The vast majority of Americans support Keystone – including a bipartisan majority of Congress – because it is good for the…

President Obama rejects Keystone XL project

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President Obama rejects Keystone XL project Beaumont Business Journal | November 9, 2015 | Link President Barack Obama rejected the proposed Keystone XL pipeline Friday, Nov. 6. The announcement came days after TransCanada, the company building the pipeline, asked that its permit application be paused due to another challenge to the project in Nebraska. "This morning, Secretary…

BABIN: Budget deal continues the path of fiscal suicide

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Budget deal continues the path of fiscal suicide By U.S. Rep. Brian Babin | The Baytown Sun Last week, when most Americans were sound asleep, President Obama and a few Congressional leaders rolled out a massive 144-page “bipartisan” budget deal that was negotiated in secret. On top of a giant $1.5 trillion debt-ceiling increase, this…