Brady Supports Trump's Call For Strict Screening For Visas

WASHINGTON, D.C. —With the unrelenting carnage of recent terrorist attacks on innocent civilians in Egypt, England, and the Philippines, the administration requested the U.S. Supreme Court revive the president’s travel ban order.

The President’s March 6th order barred entry for people from five countries - Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen - for 90 days while the U.S. government implement a much stricter visa screening process. These countries are known for breeding terrorism. For example, the Manchester suicide bomber, Salman Ramadan Abedi, was of Libyan descent and made recent visits to Libya prior to detonating a suicide bomb killing twenty-three people and critically injuring over one hundred attendees.

The president is right to take every precaution to ensure no foreign terrorists enter our borders to do harm. As President Trump said, we need to take steps to ensure the U.S. government honors its most important obligation: to protect the American people. I could not agree more.

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President Trump announced that the United States would withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord an agreement signed in 2015 by President Obama alone when he realized it couldn't be approved by his Democratic-led Senate. I fully agree with President Trump’s decision to forego unilateral commitments negotiated by President Obama and am thankful for his continued leadership putting America first.

This agreement disadvantages American workers and business and harms our competitiveness overseas. The Paris Accord’s goal is to keep global temperatures from rising more than 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit; however, many scientists believe this is unattainable even if all participants fully meet their commitments. Setting unachievable environmental standards is emblematic of the many burdensome regulations federal agencies produced which is why voters sought a change in November.

We need to protect our environment and reduce carbon emissions but in a fair, responsible, and achievable manner. As noted in Forbes, the U.S. will continue to lead the world in reducing carbon dioxide emissions where in 2015 alone emissions fell by 145 million tons, the largest decline of any country in the world. President Trump displayed his leadership despite foreign pressure to concede. This was the right decision.

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Thanks to fellow Texan, Chairman Jeb Hensarling, the House of Representatives will vote on the Financial CHOICE Act that makes key revisions to the Dodd-Frank law that has crippled and destroyed our community banks with overt compliance costs and regulatory bureaucracy.

This important bill helps community banks get back to business and ends too-big-to-fail, taxpayer bailouts of financial institutions by removing burdensome regulation that prevent lending, decreasing compliance costs, and improving access to credit and capital.

Growing our economy starts with growing our communities, and this bill will help do just that.

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I was grateful and pleased to learn that The Woodlands resident Larry Davis was found innocent of all charges in the Dominican Republic, as his friends, family and I knew he would be. My office worked closely with Larry’s family, as have so many others, in order to achieve this result and bring him home. I am so glad this nightmare for Larry is finally over and that he is back with his loving family. Welcome home, Larry.

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