Press Releases

AUSTIN, TEXAS – Congressman Roger Williams (R-Texas) today met with the Austin Area Life Affirming Coalition board members and Austin Pregnancy Resource Center (APRC) staff to discuss women's health issues and how to protect the sanctity of life.

"Organizations like APRC are what lawmakers should be rooting for," said Williams. "Instead, Congress has awarded more than $500 million a year to an organization that actually alters abortion procedures to harvest fetal parts. Not only is this illegal under federal law, it is morally reprehensible.

AUSTIN, TEXAS – Congressman Roger Williams' (R-Texas) has introduced the final piece of legislation in his seven bill tax reform plan, Jumpstart America.

"As a business owner I believe cash flowing American businesses should be Washington's number one approach to tax reform, but unfortunately that just has not been the case," said Williams. "Small businesses need relief now, and Jumpstart America is the most effective and immediate way to empower small businesses to grow and hire again."

WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Wednesday afternoon, the House Financial Services Committee passed Congressman Roger Williams' (R-Texas) bill, the State Licensing Efficiency Act of 2015 (H.R.2643), by a vote of 57- 0.

H.R.2643, which would give states more control to conduct required background checks on state-regulated non-bank financial services industries, now heads to the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives where it will be voted on by the entire chamber after lawmakers return to Washington in September.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Roger Williams (R-Texas), a small business owner and member of the Financial Services Committee, has introduced a bill that would require the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to explain to community banks and credit unions why they are not exempted from certain CFPB rules and regulations as permitted in the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Roger Williams (R-Texas), today issued the following statement after a recently released video featured Planned-Parenthood's senior director of medical services admitting that the organization alters abortion procedures to harvest and transfer specific organs of aborted fetuses:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Roger Williams (R-Texas), a small business owner and member of the Financial Services Committee, today released the following statement after an internal Justice Department investigation cleared its own lawyers of unfairly targeting payday lenders in its program Operation Chokepoint:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Roger Williams (R-Texas) today released the following statement after the Obama Administration announced it would scale back U.S. sanctions against Iran in exchange for Tehran's promise to limit its nuclear program.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Roger Williams (R-Texas), a small business owner, spoke with Jon-David Wells on Thursday to discuss his seven bill tax reform plan, Jumpstart America.