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Mexico's reluctance to deliver water to Texas under the terms of a decades-old treaty has prompted the state's top environmental regulatory agency to enlist help from the U.S. State Department.

The Senate Judiciary Committee, including Sens. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Dick Durbin, D-Ill., passed comprehensive immigration reform.

Even as the Internal Revenue Service political targeting scandal widens, an army of 2,137 IRS agents are gearing up to implement and police numerous aspects of Obamacare.

While Attorney General Eric Holder is taking heat for his department's seizure of reporter records, the U.S. attorney who is personally overseeing those investigations is himself starting to face complaints that he's gone too far in pursuing leaks.

When they toured the devastation caused by the April 17 explosion at West Fertilizer, Texas' U.S. Senators pledged that investigators would get to the bottom of what happened.

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In 2000, Ted Cruz was known as a Texas-raised, Harvard-trained domestic policy adviser to the George W. Bush campaign.

While many talk about the 2016 election, a few have seemed to all too quickly forget the lessons the electorate taught its leaders last November: Immigration is a key issue in American politics, and an important part of building a coalition in a country of constantly shifting demographics.

For Texas Democrats, national Democrats and Senate Democrats, Sen. Ted Cruz is a dream come true, and the gift that keeps on giving.

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Every day brings new revelations about who knew what about the IRS targeting conservative groups during President Obama's re-election campaign, but the overall impression is of a vast federal bureaucracy run amok.

House backing for immigration reform may turn on behind-the-scenes talks on whether to offer government-subsidized health care to immigrants who came to the U.S. illegally.

Cambage flew into Tulsa International Airport around 6:15 p.m. after traveling nearly 9,000 miles from her native Australia.

As the Government of Iran continues to defy United Nations Security Council orders to halt its nuclear enrichment activities, sponsor terrorism, disregard human rights by targeting Iranian dissidents worldwide and partner with North Korea on missile and nuclear technology, U.S. Senators John Cornyn and Mark Kirk introduced today the Iran Export ... (more)

The US Attorney for the District of Columbia, Ronald C. Machen - the man responsible for the aggressive surveillance and phone record scrutiny at Fox News - is also a big donor to the Obama Campaigns.

The former head of the IRS said Tuesday that he was aware of some aspects of his agency's targeting of conservative groups in the spring of 2012, and took what he called the correct action of ensuring the situation would be independently reviewed.

Legislation targeting patent trolls is picking up steam in Congress. Sen. John Cornyn became the latest lawmaker to offer a solution, introducing a bill aimed at making it easier for the victims of frivolous patent suits to fight back.

A number of bills targeting Iran's suspected nuclear weapons program advanced in the US Congress.

WELCOME TO THE PRO REPORT, where we have a boatload of news for you: the latest on the IRS hearings , the Capitol Hill smackdown on Apple and the Oklahoman aid political rumblings already starting to buzz.

The mainstream media has a lousy reputation for upholding the Bill of Rights, especially when it comes to the Second Amendment's right to keep and bear arms, the Fourth Amendment's right to privacy and the Tenth Amendment's limitation on federal power.