In a 363 to 70 vote, House members approved a $778 billion defense spending bill that now moves to the upper chamber.
This Fiscal Year, more than one million people have tried to cross the border illegally, many of them multiple times.
Republicans from Texas were split on the measure that would fund the military and also require women to register for the draft.
Despite President Trump’s threat to veto the defense bill, both chambers of Congress have approved the legislation with a veto-proof supermajority.
The conference report for the National Defense Authorization Act passed Wednesday night with overwhelming bipartisan support from the Texas delegation.
Ten years after the attacks at Fort Hood that killed 13 and wounded more than 30 people, the community remembers the victims, their families, and those who serve.
Texas congressional leaders were quick to praise U.S. special forces for the covert operation that led to the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Rep. Mac Thornberry is the sixth Texas Republican to announce his retirement, leaving an open seat in the most Republican district of the country.
As the National Defense Authorization Act goes to conference this week, an ongoing spat over the president's efforts to build a border wall takes center stage.
