Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Last week, House Budget Chairman Jodey Arrington (TX-19) released the following video celebrating the 51st annual March for Life.   Click HERE to watch the video … Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Budget Chairman Jodey Arrington (TX-19) held a markup of three bipartisan bills to create a fiscal commission and educate the American people on our unsustainable fiscal trajectory. All three bills passed out of the Committee with bipartisan support. The last time the House Budget Committee passed bipartisan legislation was nearly a decade ago in March… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO) and Senate Finance Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR) announced the final Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act. This legislation, the result of extensive bipartisan, bicameral negotiations, includes Chairman Arrington’s Accelerate Long-term Investment Growth Now (ALIGN) Act. The bill would allow… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Representative Jodey Arrington (TX-19) led a bipartisan, bicameral group of lawmakers, including Representatives Doggett, Pfluger, Dingell, Issa and Jayapal and Senators Braun and Welch in introducing legislation to lower prescription drug costs by addressing patent gamesmanship. The U.S. patent system was designed to strike a balance between fostering… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (TX-19) issued the following statement on H.R. 2670, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2024, as it passed the House and Senate. “At a time when the world is more dangerous and US military funding as a share of the federal budget is the lowest since World War II, the defense bill… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 5378, the Lower Costs, More Transparency Act. This legislation, passed by an overwhelming bi-partisan majority, contained a provision from Chairman Arrington’s Better Deals and Lower Prices Act (H.R. 4846). Arrington’s provision was designed to arm employers with the information they need… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (TX-19) issued the following statement regarding the House of Representatives voting to authorize an impeachment inquiry into President Biden. “After months of extensive investigation by the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees, I voted to authorize a formal impeachment inquiry into President… Read more »

WASHINGTON D.C. - Today, House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-TX) released the following statement commending the House’s 210-189 passage of H.J.Res.88, a Congressional Review Act resolution to overturn the Biden administration’s newest student loan cancellation scheme, which experts say will cost taxpayers as much as $475 billion: “I applaud the… Read more »

Chairman Arrington Statement on H.R. 4468 The CAR Act  “The Biden EPA’s emissions mandates on manufacturers are another example of this Administration’s whole-of-government assault on domestic oil and gas, and undermines economic freedom by forcing consumers to buy products they don’t need at prices they can’t afford.” Read more »

Chairman Arrington Statement on H.R. 5933 The DETERRENT Act “For too long, we’ve let foreign adversaries infiltrate and adversely influence our country through our wide-open border, the purchase US farmland and property near military bases, and the flow of foreign money to American universities. Rep. Steel’s DETERRENT Act will significantly increase the level of scrutiny on… Read more »