Press Releases

 Congressman Jodey Arrington will join fellow members of the Texas Congressional Delegation tomorrow for a bipartisan press conference to speak about the importance of passing the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) and its impact on the State of Texas. WHO: Reps. Jodey Arrington, Kevin Brady, Henry Cuellar, additional members of the Texas congressional… Read more »

Today, Congressman Jodey Arrington (TX-19) released the following statement after the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced changes to prevent states from waiving work requirements for able-bodied adults without dependents (ABAWDs) receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistant Program (SNAP) benefits. “I commend Secretary Purdue’s… Read more »

Today, Congressman Jodey Arrington (TX-19) released the following statement and video message as the House Judiciary Committee began the second phase of House Democrats’ baseless impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump: “Speaker Pelosi and House Democrats have accomplished nothing with their majority except a new level of political dysfunction in Congress and a… Read more »

Today, Congressman Jodey Arrington (TX-19) and Congresswoman Suzan DelBene (WA-1) introduced H.R. 5212 the Accountable Care In Rural America Act, which would improve the performance standards for health care providers who participate in Medicare’s Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), which are part of the Medicare Shared Savings… Read more »

Today, Congressman Jodey Arrington (TX-19) announced the introduction of H.Res. 676, which encourages the United States to formally withdraw from the 2016 Paris Climate Agreement. The Agreement, which went into effect on November 4, 2016, did not have congressional approval and resulted in burdensome regulatory measures that put the United States at a competitive disadvantage,… Read more »

Today, Congressman Jodey Arrington (TX-19) spoke on the House floor after the U.S. House of Representatives voted to begin an ‘impeachment inquiry’ against President Donald J. Trump. “Today was a sad day for our country. We now have round two of this phony impeachment process that’s purely political, not based in fact, and not based in the pursuit of truth and… Read more »

Today, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 403-0 to pass the Public Disclosure of Drug Discounts Act (H.R. 2115) – bipartisan legislation introduced by Congressman Jodey Arrington (TX-19), Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger (VA-7), and Congressman Brendan Boyle (PA-2) to provide greater transparency to the discounts negotiated between insurance companies and drug… Read more »

 Writing in The Hill this week, Congressman Jodey Arrington (TX-19) criticized House Democrats’ irresponsible and unprecedented ‘impeachment inquiry,’ through which they are abandoning past precedent, preventing the minority party from cross-examining witnesses, and conducting interviews in secret: “While Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is trying to… Read more »

Today, Congressman Jodey Arrington (TX-19) joined “Cavuto: Coast to Coast” on the Fox Business Network to discuss the House Democrat leadership’s continued delay in ratifying the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), even after Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador urged Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee to move forward in ratifying the… Read more »

Today, Congressman Jodey Arrington (TX-19) spoke out against House Democrats’ big government drug pricing proposal (H.R. 3) during a hearing of the House Ways and Means Committee. The proposal would implement government-controlled pricing of prescription drugs, resulting in less investment in medical research and more than a dozen fewer life-saving prescription drugs coming to… Read more »