Senator Charles Schwertner is a physician, family man, business owner, and a life-long fiscal and social conservative. In 2010, Schwertner was first elected to serve the people of House District 20 as a member of the Texas House of Representatives. There, he quickly earned a reputation as a measured and effective legislator, working with his colleagues to pass one of the most conservative legislative agendas in Texas history.
In 2012, Schwertner won the Republican Primary for the Texas Senate (District 5) with nearly 75 percent of the vote. Senate District 5 is a ten-county region of Central and East Texas that includes Brazos, Freestone, Grimes, Leon, Limestone, Madison, Milam, Robertson, Walker and Williamson Counties.
Throughout his time in the Texas Senate, Senator Schwertner has fought for the families in his district by supporting retired teachers, working to make higher education more affordable, and protecting children from abuse and neglect by reforming the Department of Family and Protective Services. Schwertner has also worked to protect our seniors by authoring legislation to improve nursing homes and punish bad actors in the industry. In the Senate, Dr. Schwertner serves on the Senate Committees on Business and Commerce, Veteran Affairs & Border Security, Agriculture, and Transportation, as well as serving as the Vice Chair of the Senate Committee on Intergovernmental Relations.
For his leadership in the Texas Legislature, Senator Schwertner has been named a “Taxpayer Advocate” by Texans for Fiscal Responsibility, a “Fighter for Free Enterprise” by the Texas Association of Business, a “Courageous Conservative” by the Texas Conservative Coalition, a “Lone Star Conservative Leader” by the Texas Conservative Roundtable, and “Senate Freshman of the Year” by Texas Monthly magazine. Additionally, Senator Schwertner has been named a CASA Champion for Texas Children, YMCA Champion, and Legislator of the Year by the Texas Assisted Living Association.
Charles comes from six generations of farming and ranching in Texas. In addition to his role in the Texas Legislature, Dr. Schwertner also works as a practicing orthopedic surgeon, treating thousands of patients each year. He and his wife Belinda (an obstetrician/gynecologist) reside in Georgetown with their three sons: Carson, Zachary, and Matthew.
Jonathan Hudash, a #WilCo sheriff’s deputy, will be awarded the #CarnegieMedal, which is awarded to those who enter mortal danger while saving or attempting to save the lives of others. High praise for a well-deserving law enforcement officer! #BackTheBlue https://www.carnegiehero.org/jonathan-a-hudash/
Jonathan A. Hudash, a sheriff’s deputy in Williamson County, will be awarded the Carnegie Medal for his heroic actions rescuing a passenger from a vehicle that was on fire. The Carnegie Medal is awarded to those who enter mortal danger while saving or attempting to save the lives of others. High praise for a well-deserving law enforcement officer! www.carnegiehero.org/jonathan-a-hudash/
Jonathan A. Hudash – Carnegie Hero Fund Commission
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Williamson County, Texas, sheriff’s Deputy Jonathan A. Hudash went above and beyond his duties on April 15, 2020, when he entered...Congratulations for the well-deserved honor!
Well done Sir
Just like we recognize the bad ones we must honor the good ones!
Thank You for your Service 🇺🇸
Outstanding! On another subject, Constitutional Carry?
I am devastated by the reports of a mass shooting in Bryan and the shooting of a DPS trooper in Iola. This is an ongoing situation and my office is working with Governor Abbott’s staff to offer state assistance to local law enforcement. Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims, their families, and the first responders working to keep everyone safe from this senseless tragedy.
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As usual thoughts and prayers but no action. Thoughts and prayers do nothing to stop the carnage.
We look to priests for thoughts and prayers...legislators are looked to for legislation...get to work and stop offering useless platitudes after every tragedy.
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We need more than thoughts and prayers. We need commonsense gun laws.
Keep being devastated. They’ll keep happening. Thanks for nothing.
Please. You went right from this to posting about your valiant attempts to defend the gun industry and to protect our 2nd Amendment rights from nonexistent threats. Thoughts and prayers are utterly meaningless without substantive action.
I pay attention to actions not words.
Garrett Cocetti
Yet your answers the same everytime do nothing because nothings wrong...
But not devastated enough to do something about the problem of mass shootings. Your previous posts shows that you are actually part of this problem.
Fuck you. I know what you did. Stop letting gun manufacturers away with murder. Gun laws do not mean allowing more guns. We need less and regulations about who can have them. "Well regulated militia"
We have no inpatient mental health services in Bryan/College Station. In less than a month, two Bryan men with guns have made national news. Let's get a bill to provide mental health services so folks don't have to keep going to Austin for care. Let's provide conflict management and de-escalation training for our workplaces and schools.
Yet you have another post about the President coming for your guns. Stop being a coward and push for current loopholes and massive clips to be shut down.
President Biden has begun his attacks on Americans’ 2nd Amendment rights, but your Republican lawmakers in Texas are protecting your 2nd Amendment rights. I authored Senate Bill 19 to protect Texas businesses that legally manufacture ammunition and firearms because corporate discrimination against these businesses has been going on for far too long. At the direction of the federal government under the Obama Administration, financial institutions adopted discriminatory policies against the lawful firearm industry. Senate Bill 19 will ensure that any company in Texas with a policy that attempts to restrict gun or ammunition sales will not be allowed to benefit from tax dollars through government contracts. cnn.it/3wCcMJF
Biden to take first limited steps on gun control, including on 'ghost guns' and pistol braces
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President Joe Biden will take his first, limited actions on gun control Thursday, directing his administration to tighten restrictions on so-called ghost guns and pistol stabilizing braces that allow the weapons to be used more accurately.Texas needs laws like some other states are passing that make his executive orders on gun control illegal and unenforceable.
Thank you Sir.
Thank you for doing this!
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Well done And thank you!
Jackass take care of the border your allowing terrorist to come in and destroy us and you are worried about guns.
Treason
Clown.
There’s about 60K gun laws already. This is a cancer on our freedom. Never give an inch.
Not much of a doctor, eh?!?!
I find it infuriating that Biden says gun manufacturers are the only industry in America that is immune to legal liability from the damage that their product causes. The reality is that gun manufacturers are MORE liable than pharmaceutical companies. You do actually have the ability to sue a gun manufacturer if they knowingly sold a gun to somebody that wasn't supposed to have one or if they sold a gun that causes injury due to malfunction. Vaccines though? Nope. Under no circumstances whatsoever can you sue a pharmaceutical company even if you can prove criminal intent in a court of law. You can sue the federal government for damages but you CANNOT sue a pharmaceutical company.
What we have is clearly not working. And so far, all I hear from our Texas legislators are excuses and no solutions.
How is this an attack on the 2nd amendment? Stop politizing everything!
Have you seen the pictures of the troopers car that got shot in the county that you represent?
biden socialist fascist communist cannot rule Citizens they need unarmed subjects terrorist enemies within 🤬
There are already a number of restrictions on firearms, get off your soapbox of bullshit...
How many died during the Texas winter storm?
Really? Maybe we should focus on what's more important in the world than your precious guns. No one is coming for them. Quit fear mongering, fix the educational system, (or do you like Tx being ranked 44) fix the health care issues in Tx (or you ok with children's health care being ranked 44), fix the damn infrastructure (or you okay with a other winter storm taking out 3/4 of Texas again)
How exactly is Biden threatening gun rights?
Biden kiss Red Texas ass
He's a completely ignorant president. I bet what's left of his demented brain doesn't even weigh 6lbs right now. If he does what he just announced his own son will need to be the first arrested for his lying on his application for a firearm. Secondly, firearms manufacturers are already sued regularly. 3rd a piece a plastic that stabilized a firearm has literally never been the reason a trigger was fired ever. 4th his proposed ATF director is a known liar. The Branch Davidians did not shoot down federal helicopters or make them crash, they did take on gun fire however but to flat out lie is unacceptable.
"1 Dead, 5 Hurt in Texas Mass Shooting; State Trooper Shot – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth" www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/several-people-injured-in-mass-shooting-in-bryan-shooter-at-...
I can't believe you have the gonads to make this post while we are having mass shootings in Texas every other day ...including the day you made this post...You sir are a Matt Gaetz type disgusting pervert that needs a lesson in grace and humility. I'll be glad to give it to you....
Laws for the law and order party and law abiding citizens are not an attack. Whose rights are you protecting ?