Congressman Tony Gonzales here. Plenty has happened this week, so I wanted to give a quick update on what’s going on in Washington.
I introduced the Save Our Kids Act on Thursday. This bill gives parents the ability to hold medical providers who don’t give the full facts about the dangerous side effects of puberty blockers and hormone therapies accountable. Additionally, the bill gives doctors the right to refuse to perform morally bankrupt sex-change procedures on children. Our children are our future, and it’s time Congress stands up for them. For details on the bill, click here:
Last weekend, millions of Americans were impacted by what many people consider the most severe I.T. outage in history. The outage, involving cybersecurity company CrowdStrike, took down multiple Microsoft platforms, including Microsoft Teams, a program countless businesses and people around the world rely on to discuss sensitive information. This critical failure has left many constituents wondering if Microsoft Teams is a secure platform.
I sit on the Homeland Security Committee, and in June, we held a hearing on this exact issue with Microsoft President and Vice Chair Brad Smith.
This week, Kimberly Cheatle, the former Director of the Secret Service, resigned. Now, it is time to bring the American people transparency. On Wednesday, I voted to establish a Congressional task force to investigate the assassination attempt on President Trump. No political candidate should ever have to fear for their life while on the campaign trail– not in this country. Congress will look into every fact. A failure like this can NEVER happen again.
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traveled to the U.S. and gave a spirited address to Congress. Hearing Prime Minister Netanyahu speak was a somber reminder that now more than ever, we must stand by our allies in the Middle East. As a veteran, I know all too well that those who have seen war fight for peace the hardest.
In the aftermath of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech, radical activists began to violently riot, defacing numerous historical landmarks and burning American flags at the Capitol. Their behavior was a disgrace to this country and should be universally condemned.
Finally, I want to give a special thank you to Chairman Tom Currie, the Republican Party Chairman of Crane County. This week, Chairman Currie approached me with concerns about our military’s focus on DEI training. I take seriously my role to advocate for our district, so I asked Chairman Currie’s question during a Committee on Homeland Security hearing with the U.S. Coast Guard this week. I will always fight to make sure YOUR voice is heard in our nation’s Capitol.
