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Poor Safety Lou. Is she destined to be a wallflower? At the great budgetary dance in the halls of Congress, she has been shoved aside by her sexier sisters, Health Care and Energy.

Houston reps: Energy bill "a monstrosity" or "reasonable"? Members of the Texas congressional delegation divided largely along party lines on the energy and climate change legislation that won narrow 219-212 passage in the House this evening.

U.S. Rep. Kevin Brady , Ranking Member on the Trade Subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee, issued a statement Wednesday supporting the Administration's decision to file a World Trade Organization case against China for unfair trade practices.

If you ask each of the 435 members of the House of Representatives whether they believe in cutting government waste, I'm willing to bet they'll all say yes.

WASHINGTON, DC Amid concerns that too much of the fi rst round of federal Hurricane Ike disaster aid was diverted to state bureaucracy, U.S. Congressman Kevin Brady urged Governor Rick Perry by letter to send 100 percent of the recently announced $1.7 billion in federal funds directly to impacted communities for their recovery needs.

Due to extremely dry conditions and high water demand, The Woodlands Joint Powers Agency has initiated Stage 2 of their Water Conservation and Drought Contingency Plan.

Tyler County Booster - June 2009 U.S. Congressman Kevin Brady's Eighth District Mobile Office will be making its rounds to local communities throughout the region from Tuesday, June 23 through Thursday, June 25.

The Obama administration's latest financial regulatory reform proposal contains a stunning surprise hidden on page 67: 'Rigorous application of the Community Reinvestment Act should be a core function of the CFPA.' The Community Reinvestment Act, or CRA, should be a core function of the CFPA or the Consumer Financial Protection Agency.

Finally, a Republican congressional project worth getting behind: Republican Study Committee Chairman Tom Price, Congressman Kevin Brady, Congressman Jason Chaffetz, and other members of the RSC will unveil the Sunset Caucus, a permanent new initiative to shrink the size of government by eliminating federal programs, offices, and agencies.

Rep. Jason Chaffetz co-created on Wednesday the new Sunset Caucus in Congress, full of Republicans who are dedicated to forcing old, wasteful government programs to ride off into the sunset.

Congressman Kevin Brady presented a Congressional Commendation to Holly Thompson, 2009 LC-M High School graduate on June 2. Thompson is the winner of the Congressional Art Competition for Texas District 8 and will be making a trip to Washington DC later this summer to see her work hung in the Capitol.

A leading Republican member of the Houston-area congressional delegation is urging the Republican governor of Texas to devote the entire $1.7 billion in new hurricane-related assistance to local communities rather than red tape in Austin.

The tests used an assumption of unemployment at 8.9 percent. Of course, we're about a half-point ahead of that number now, meaning there are questions in the mind of some over those tests and whether they accurately measured the survivability of 19 banks.

Goldcorp Inc. , Canadaa s largest gold mining company, lost its bid for $50 million in compensation it sought because U.S. environmental restrictions limited its operations.

Rep. Kevin Brady, a Republican on the Joint Economic Committee, had this to say about Friday's unemployment numbers: The increase in the unemployment rate to a level of 9.4 percent is disturbing for several reasons.

Some cushion them in bubble wrap and launch them over prison walls using potato guns.

A worker assembles a Prius at Toyota City, Japan. The popularity of such cars is a drain on government tax revenue.

Reporting from Washington -- The nation's breathtaking pace of job loss slowed significantly in May, bolstering hopes that the worst of the recession is over.

We all know about Tax Freedom Day , the day that marks when we've paid all our taxes and actually start working for ourselves.

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