Lamar Smith
Lamar Smith is a Republican congressman from a San Antonio-based district in Texas. He became chairman of the House Judiciary Committee in January 2011.
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"The average tax bill for Americans in 2016 was a 41 percent increase from 2013."
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"I was the first member of Congress to contribute to Donald Trump."
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"One third of all federal prisoners today are illegal immigrants."
"The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) has estimated that the Obama administrationās Power Plan will cause energy costs in Texas to rise as much…
"Last year," Obama "administration officials released into our neighborhoods more than 36,000 criminal immigrants who had nearly 88,000 convictions. The crimes included hundreds of convictions…
The National Science Foundation awarded $700,000 to fund a climate change musical.
"In 2010, the non-partisan Government Accountability Office found that only 6.5 percent of the U.S.-Mexico border was under full control of the Border Patrol."
Says the top 20 percent of income earners pay nearly 70 percent of all federal taxes.
"Illegal counterfeiting and piracy costs the U.S. economy $100 billion... every year."
On applying prosecutorial discretion to immigration cases.