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COPPERAS COVE — U.S. Rep. Roger Williams, R-Austin, was at the new Copperas Cove District No. 2 Fire Station to deliver turkeys to first responders, and he also talked about the transition of President-elect Donald Trump.
Williams, whose district includes Coryell County and parts of Fort Hood and Killeen, said people in Washington, D.C., are excited about Trump.
In this week's edition of Office Space, Rep. Roger Williams, R-Texas, shows off his cowboy boots, saddle and baseball bats.
WASHINGTON: A behemoth $619 billion defense spending bill passed the House of Representatives on Friday, and Texans had their hands all over it.
The annual bill, dubbed the National Defense Authorization Act, funds the Department of Defense. The bill passed Friday does not require women to register for the draft and includes the largest pay increase for troops in six years.
Although the bill is expected to be approved by the Senate, registering women for the draft turned into a political battle in the past few months.
"The American Conservative Union feels it is very important that the leadership table includes conservatives. Roger Williams, in our opinion is one of the leading conservatives in Congress–having him around that leadership table will be very important–having someone around that leadership table, who has never wavered in his support for our nominee Donald Trump is very important," said Matt Schlapp, the chairman of the ACU.
U.S. Rep. Bill Flores, a Bryan Republican, is vying for a high-ranking position among his party's leadership for the next Congress.
Flores is running to be vice-chair of the Republican Conference, a spokesman confirmed to the Tribune. If elected, Flores would play a crucial role in the organizational mechanics of the House GOP, which retained control of their chamber on Tuesday.
While Congress features no fewer than seven Texas chairmen, the state does not currently have a member in leadership.
Roger Williams will likely be remembered more for his political career than athletic career.
But the congressman from the 25th district of Texas, which stretches from Tarrant County in the north to Hays County in the south, had a distinguished baseball career at TCU.
And Williams added another baseball accolade Wednesday night as the Bobby Bragan Youth Foundation's 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award winner.
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Here are the Star-Telegram Editorial Board recommendations for the Nov. 8 election. This post will be updated as further recommendations are made.
Federal, State, County:
Congressional District 6: Joe Barton
Congressional District 10: Kay Granger
Congressional District 24: Kenny Marchant
Congressional District 25: Roger Williams
The head of Wells Fargo took a brutal drubbing before a House panel Thursday as members of both parties called for his job and suggested he should face criminal charges.
John Stumpf, the CEO and chairman of the board at the bank, was roundly criticized for over four hours before the House Financial Services Committee as he sought to apologize and explain how his company spent years creating potentially up to 2 million fake accounts to meet sales goals.
Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf returned to Capitol Hill Thursday to testify about the bank's sales practices before the House Financial Services Committee on Thursday morning. Scroll down for updates compiled through the day.
2:11 p.m. Hearing wraps.
In his second Capitol Hill appearance in as many weeks, Mr. Stumpf again expressed regret for his company's actions and said Wells Fargo's board was working to investigate how problems with sham accounts and unauthorized meddling in customer business snowballed over five years.