Texas' and America's farmers are suffering. As the Member of Congress representing the 10th Congressional District of Texas, I have traveled throughout our area and have seen first-hand how the drought has affected our agricultural communities.

We're going to be examining, how can we more properly screen and vet people coming into the United States? We will also be looking at the border.

Any employer is going to look at your social media before they hire you. Why aren't we doing that when we screen people coming into the United States?

In too many cases, the moms, the dads, the sisters and brothers of children with cancer must stand by a hospital bed and watch helplessly as this horrible disease consumes the life of an innocent child.

You can't just put the military in the streets of the United States rounding up illegal aliens. I think that would be a violation of federal law.

Unfortunately, cancer is the number one killer of children in this country today, and it destroys not only these innocent victims, but their families as well.

Currently, the United States provides 22 percent of the U.N. annual budgets, over $900 million in fiscal year 2007, and some of that funding goes to the Human Rights Council.