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Congressman Daniel Boone Congress has no power to appropriate money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it. We have the right as individuals to give our own money in charity but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of public money.

BREAKING: Former NJ mayoral candidate Henrilynn Ibezim (D) pleaded guilty to forging nearly 1,000 voter registration applications The thing that never happens happened again!

@abc13houston If this doesn’t work with driverless trucks we should ban them.

Notice a ghost driving an 18-wheeler northbound on I-45 last night? For the first time, a fully driverless truck delivered freight from Houston to Dallas and a lot more are on the way.

This is Stephen Miller, White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and United States Homeland Security Advisor: “We’re going to see the first-ever effort in American history to reclaim the ultimately trillions of dollars that were stolen from taxpayers by the Democratic Party.” Detained illegal aliens set to be deported confirmed that they are on Medicaid. “What we’ve found since Donald Trump came into office is that the Democrats have set up a system to funnel hundreds of billions — and ultimately trillions — of dollars to migrants in our country, often from places like Somalia. For example, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement recently asked a group of illegal immigrants in detention whether they were receiving Medicaid. Half of them raised their hands and volunteered that they were on Medicaid — and these aren’t the ones who are hiding it. We’ve seen this over and over again.” The Democratic Party’s ultimate goal is to overthrow the constitutional republic of the United States.

Trump gets asked if he would ever wear a bulletproof vest and says "I don't know if I can handle looking 20 pounds heavier." The reporter breaks and she can't help but to smile and laugh. The best to ever do it. Raw charisma. Legend 😂😂😂

🚨BREAKING: Newly released emails show Fauci directed colleagues to “delete this after you read it”—dating back to Feb. 2020. He denied it under oath. These documents are now public, and Fauci will finally testify before Chairman Rand Paul.

Where the hell is @SpeakerJohnson on this? Hakeem Jefferies has been voting on behalf of Maxine Waters for months, as she has been absent. Proxy-Voting is illegal in both the House and Senate!

I've said it from the beginning: lying to Congress is a felony. Destroying federal records is a felony. Advising others to destroy federal records is a felony. Fauci did all three. His adviser was just indicted. Fauci is next. The deadline to prosecute Fauci is May 11. The DOJ must act now. nypost.com/2026/04/28/us-…

We. Need. YOU!!! Send your tips on citizenship discrimination in hiring, in PERM listings etc. — to IER at USDOJ dot GOV!

🚨 CAUGHT ON CAMERA 🚨 Whistleblower EXPOSES daycare owner illegally selling H-1B visas…and he has ties to the Chinese Communist Party?!

@JamesOKeefeIII @SaraGonzalesTX Send her. I’ll make stuff up.

If the girl you met for a date is a 10 and you’re a 5… She most likely works for me.

I spoke in front of the Supreme Court to oppose a case that would give legal immunity to pesticides. And this evening I cosponsored an amendment with @chelliepingree to strip similar immunity from the Farm Bill. My PRIME Act is in the Farm Bill, so I’m trying to clean it up.

The 57 Republicans who voted No on the amendment to STOP the government from controlling your car. Mark E. Amodei (NV) Don Bacon (NE) Stephanie Bice (OK) Gus Bilirakis (FL) Mike Bost (IL) Ken Calvert (CA) John R. Carter (TX) Tom Cole (OK) Mario Diaz-Balart (FL) Neal Dunn (FL) Chuck Edwards (NC) Jake Ellzey (TX) Randy Feenstra (IA) Randy Fine (FL) Brian Fitzpatrick (PA) Chuck Fleischmann (TN) Vince Fong (CA) Andrew Garbarino (NY) Carlos A. Gimenez (FL) French Hill (AR) Jeff Hurd (CO) Brian Jack (GA) John James (MI) David Joyce (OH) Thomas Kean Jr. (NJ) Mike Kelly (PA) Jen Kiggans (VA) Kevin Kiley (CA) Young Kim (CA) Kimberlyn King-Hinds (MP – Northern Mariana Islands) Darin LaHood (IL) Nick LaLota (NY) Mike Lawler (NY) Frank Lucas (OK) Nicole Malliotakis (NY) Celeste Maloy (UT) Brian Mast (FL) Dan Meuser (PA) Max Miller (OH) Mariannette Miller-Meeks (IA) Tim Moore (NC) Blake Moore (UT) James Moylan (GU – Guam) Greg Murphy (NC) Dan Newhouse (WA) Zach Nunn (IA) Hal Rogers (KY) Maria Elvira Salazar (FL) Mike Simpson (ID) Elise Stefanik (NY) Glenn Thompson (PA) Mike Turner (OH) David Valadao (CA) Derrick Van Orden (WI) Rob Wittman (VA) Steve Womack (AR) Ryan Zinke (MT)

Congress allowed this Orwellian mandate to become law. A group of us in the House tried to stop it. Americans want freedom, not remote controls and mass surveillance. We must move to repeal this mandate before 2027.

🚨The Legislative Priorities Committee of the Texas GOP Passed this URGENT Call to Action: STOP THE KILL SWITCH Important window to kill the kill switch is closing. 
We need your help. In just a few weeks, the U.S. House & Senate will be crafting the next highway bill.  We need Senator Cruz to repeal the kill switch. URGENT ACTION Here is what we need 
YOU to do ASAP! Call Senator Ted Cruz
(who Chairs the Committee)

U.S. Capitol Switchboard: (202) 224-3121 (tel:+1-202-224-3121) Legislative Director Preston Howey (202) 224-5922  (tel:+1-202-224-5922) Email (mailto:preston_howey@cruz.senate.gov) State Director Cassy Garcia (512) 916-5834 (tel:+1-512-916-5834)  Email (mailto:cassy_garcia@cruz.senate.gov) Ask @SenTedCruz to 'Repeal the Kill Switch' in the next highway bill. Remind him the Republican Party of Texas (its governing body, the SREC) passed a UNANIMOUS resolution about why the kill switch MUST BE repealed just a few weeks ago. (texasturf.org/images/pdf/202…) last May (2025) asking congress to repeal the kill switch (which we hand-delivered to him last year). We also hand delivered a coalition letter (texasturf.org/images/pdf/202…) (in 2023) to him with over 200 grassroots asking him to do the same. We also hand delivered our one page policy statement (texasturf.org/images/pdf/202…)  This is of critical importance! Take action NOW! #KilltheKillSwitch #killswitch @MassieforKY @TexasGOP

Time for the Presiding Officer of the Senate, Vice President Vance, to take the gavel and keep the Senate in continuous session until it takes its job to fund homeland security seriously.

Would you believe 57 Republicans and 211 Democrats recently voted in favor of this Orwellian automobile kill-switch? Here’s the roll call for the vote I forced to defund the mandate: clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/roll0…

Houston firefighters and their families know what it means to answer the call, no matter where they are. @HoustonFire Captain Andy Roseborrough and his wife, Dr. Jyothi Lagisetty, were visiting the Teotihuacan pyramids in Mexico when gunfire erupted near the Temple of the Moon. After taking cover, they heard someone call for a doctor. They ran toward the victims and found a 6-year-old child with multiple gunshot wounds. As they worked to slow the bleeding, bystanders brought them a woman who had also been shot. Captain Roseborrough and Dr. Lagisetty treated both victims until local bomberos arrived and transported them for care. We are proud of Captain Roseborrough. We are grateful for Dr. Lagisetty. And we are reminded that service does not stop when the shift ends.

I have two stacks on my desk. The left stack is financial disclosure forms from members of Congress. The right stack is waivers for members who filed their financial disclosures late. The right stack is always taller. On Wednesday morning, I watched a soldier get arrested on CNN. I am a Disclosure Analyst for the House Ethics Committee. I have held this position for eleven years. My job is to receive the forms, verify their completeness, and file them. I do not investigate. I do not flag. I do not refer. I file. I have a lanyard. The lanyard says ETHICS. The soldier's name is Gannon Ken Van Dyke. He is thirty-eight years old. He was stationed at Fort Bragg. He was Special Forces. In December, he created an account on a prediction market called Polymarket. On January 2nd, he bet $32,500 that the president of Venezuela would be removed from power. On January 3rd, he helped remove the president of Venezuela from power. He collected $409,881. He has been charged with five federal crimes. Commodities fraud. Wire fraud. Unlawful use of confidential government information. Theft of nonpublic government information. Unlawful monetary transaction. The Department of Justice called it "the first-ever insider trading prosecution on event contracts." I watched this on the television in our break room. Then I walked back to my desk and processed a late financial disclosure from a member of the House Financial Services Committee who purchased $250,000 in bank stocks eleven days before his subcommittee held a closed-door hearing on proposed capital reserve changes. The filing was forty-seven days late. The STOCK Act requires disclosure within forty-five days. The penalty for late filing is $200. I waived it. I waive most of them. In 2021, fifty-four members of Congress and senior staff violated the reporting rules. The fines were minimal. Most were waived. I have a form for the waiver. The form has a box that says "Reason." I write "administrative delay." In ethics, "administrative delay" means the member's office forgot and then remembered when a reporter called. My approval rate is one hundred percent. In any other field, that number would trigger an audit. In mine, it is called thoroughness. Let me show you what I processed this year. January. A senator on the Armed Services Committee sold defense contractor shares worth $1.2 million. Three days later, his committee received a classified briefing that the Iran campaign had exceeded its projected cost by 340%. The stock dropped 8%. He filed the disclosure sixty-one days late. I calculated the fine. $200. His chief of staff asked if it could be waived. He did not ask what the senator traded on. Nobody asks that. The form does not have a field for it. I waived the fine. The senator's portfolio returned 23.4% in 2025. The S&P 500 returned 16.8%. February. A representative on the Energy and Commerce Committee bought pharmaceutical stocks worth $400,000. Two weeks later, her committee advanced a bill that would extend patent exclusivity for the exact drug class she purchased. The stocks rose 14%. She filed on time. There was no fine. There was no investigation. There was nothing to investigate because buying stocks in companies regulated by your own committee is not illegal. It is legal. The STOCK Act made it legal by making it disclosed. In Congress, disclosed means legal. In my office, legal means filed. March. A member whose spouse manages a portfolio worth $9.2 million reported forty-three separate transactions in a single quarter. Twelve of them were in sectors directly affected by legislation the member co-sponsored. The timing on eight of those twelve was within a two-week window of committee action. I logged all forty-three. None were flagged. We do not flag. We file. I asked my supervisor once what would happen if I flagged a filing. She said we do not have a form for that. I never asked again. In 2020, I processed 847 disclosures. In 2023, 1,211. In 2025, 1,614. The number of enforcement actions in each of those years was zero. The numerator changes. The denominator does not. I want to tell you about the soldier again. He made $409,881. He tried to delete his Polymarket account by calling customer service and saying he lost access to his email. He moved his profits into a foreign cryptocurrency vault and then into a new brokerage account. He used his real identity. He placed thirteen bets. Every single one was connected to an operation he personally participated in. In my eleven years, I have processed disclosures from members of Congress who traded on: Pending FDA approvals they learned about in committee. Defense appropriations they voted on. Trade policy they negotiated. Pandemic response measures they drafted. Interest rate decisions they were briefed on before the public. None of them have been charged. None of them have been investigated by the Department of Justice. None of them have been referred to the SEC. The STOCK Act has produced zero prosecutions since it was signed on April 4th, 2012. Fourteen years. Five hundred and thirty-five members. $635 million in trades last year alone. Zero cases. My daughter asked me once what happens when someone breaks the rules. I told her we write it down. She asked what happens after that. I said it depends. She was nine. She is twenty now. It does not depend. Nothing happens after that. The soldier made $409,881 and faces decades in prison. Nancy Pelosi entered Congress in 1987 with a portfolio worth approximately $785,000. It is now worth $133.7 million. That is a return of 16,930%. The Dow Jones returned 2,300% over the same period. Professional fund managers who beat the market for three consecutive years are considered exceptional. She has beaten it for thirty-seven. If a hedge fund produced those returns, the SEC would subpoena the records on a Thursday. She produced them from a building with a chapel and a gift shop. She announced her retirement last year. No investigation was opened. No disclosure was flagged. Her filings were on time. In my office, on time means compliant. Compliant means closed. I want to tell you about the fine. $200. That is the maximum penalty for violating the STOCK Act's disclosure requirements. $200 for a member of Congress whose portfolio gained $4.7 million in a single quarter. I calculated what $200 represents as a percentage of $4.7 million. It is 0.004%. I could not find a comparison that made it meaningful. It is less than the price of the parking pass in the Rayburn garage. It is less than lunch at the members' dining room if you order the crab cakes, which I am told are excellent though I eat at my desk. Since 2012, thirty-one bills have been introduced to restrict congressional trading. I keep a list. The list is longer than the STOCK Act itself. On March 5th, 2026, a representative from Michigan introduced the thirty-second. He called it the "No Getting Rich in Congress Act." The bill would prohibit the President, Vice President, members of Congress, and their spouses from trading individual stocks, cryptocurrency, futures, and commodities while in office. The bill was referred to committee. The committee has not scheduled a hearing. The committee is chaired by a member whose spouse executed $2.1 million in trades last year. The bill will be reviewed. In my office, reviewed means read. Read means acknowledged. Acknowledged means a status has been assigned. A status is the absence of an action that has been given a name so it looks like one. The soldier used classified information to make $409,881 on a prediction market. He has been charged with five federal crimes. The Department of Justice announced the case on the same day I processed three disclosures from members who traded on committee knowledge worth a combined $3.8 million. The difference between the soldier and the members is not what they did. It is the building they did it in. He did it from Fort Bragg. They did it from the Capitol. He used a prediction market. They used the New York Stock Exchange. He bet on a military operation. They bet on the legislation they write. He did not write the law. They did. They wrote the STOCK Act. Then they funded its enforcement at zero dollars. Then they set its maximum penalty at $200. Then they gave my office the authority to waive it. Then they traded $635 million. The soldier flew to Caracas. He breached a compound. He put his body between a mission and a bullet. The people who ordered the operation were in a building with a credenza and sparkling water. They did not go to Caracas. They went to their brokerage accounts. The soldier made $409,881 and is now in federal custody. The people who knew what he was going to do before he did it made more and filed less. His prosecution is not a failure of the system. It is the system. One conviction per decade, at the lowest level, so the briefing slides can say enforcement exists. The $409,881 is not the crime. It is the cost of making $635 million look supervised. In my field, we call this self-regulation. The soldier's Polymarket account has been frozen. His military career is over. He will spend years in federal prison. My office will process every congressional disclosure filed this year. Every trade logged. Every $200 fine calculated and waived. The system is immaculate. Fourteen years. Zero prosecutions. $635 million a year. A 16,930% return. I have not leaked a document. I have not filed a complaint. I have not deviated from the process one single time. The process was written by the people whose forms I process. As long as the disclosures go up and the cases don't, my performance review says I am meeting expectations. My lanyard still says ETHICS. In eleven years, nobody has asked me to define the word.

@20th_Centurygal Me. I’m terrible so I don’t play. I should get credit for that.

Which bass player deserves way more credit than they get?