I shared the stage with Johan Van Overtveldt, a Member of the European Parliament who chairs its Committee on Budgets and served as Belgium’s Minister of Finance. Together, we compared and contrasted the differing approaches of the United States and the European Union on these topics. Jennifer Haltom Doan of Haltom & Doan in Texarkana moderated, so East Texas was well represented in Brussels.

While in Brussels, I also had the opportunity to meet with the United States Ambassador to NATO—Ambassador Matthew Whitaker (pictured above), who previously served as the Acting Attorney General under the first Trump Administration and has now been the NATO Ambassador since April 2025.

This digital assets discussion was timely because, on September 16, I voted to advance H.R. 10357, the Digital Asset Tax Certainty Act out of the Ways & Means committee.  This bipartisan bill passed out of committee by a vote of 38 to 5, and is the first federal legislation to address the substantive tax treatment of digital assets. It simplifies reporting for everyday transactions, gives digital assets equal footing with traditional financial assets, and clears up how mining and staking rewards are taxed.

I recognize that digital assets cross borders every day, and the laws that govern them change from one country to the next. So, a company with customers in East Texas and Brussels needs to know which rules apply, and the answer should not take a team of lawyers to find. That’s why it is important for Congress to act on this matter to provide clarity and certainty on how transactions involving the blockchain and digital assets are taxed. We will leave the rest of the policy involving digital assets to the House Agriculture Committee and the House Committee on Financial Services, who also share jurisdiction in this important policy area.

The hard issues are where I want to be. On artificial intelligence, digital taxation, and digital assets, the rules being written now will shape the economy our children and grandchildren inherit, and I intend to help write them. On AI, that means innovation alongside solutions that benefit our local and national economy, our national defense, and help us win the race against China.

Clear rules give builders the confidence to invest, hire, and grow. That holds in East Texas, and it holds in Brussels.

$78 Million for Rural Texas Healthcare

When you live in a small East Texas town, the nearest doctor can be a long drive down a county road. Families in our district know that drive, and the clinics that shorten it matter a great deal.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced $78 million in Rural Health Transformation Program funding for 216 rural healthcare providers across Texas, through the state’s Rural Texas Strong initiative. The money will go toward chronic disease prevention, recruiting, training, and keeping rural healthcare workers, and medical equipment and facility improvements that expand access to care.

I voted for the Working Families Tax Cuts, and this program came out of that law. Texas received the largest allocation in the nation, about $281 million a year over five years. Now that money is being put to work in rural communities.

In September, I joined CHRISTUS Health for its America 250 celebration, an evening of good food, fireworks, and the company of friends and neighbors from across East Texas. It was a fitting way to mark our nation’s 250th birthday, and it was a reminder of what CHRISTUS means to this region. Its rural clinics bring care to patients close to home, and the doctors, nurses, and staff who choose to practice in small towns carry a load most of us never see. I am grateful for them.

Care close to home keeps families and communities whole. That is what this funding is for.

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Last week, I traveled to Arizona to stand with my colleague and friend, Congressman Juan Ciscomani, at the Sahuarita Police Department. Juan—who represents the congressional district where I was born in Southern Arizona—has championed $2 million in Community Project Funding for the department to buy a solar battery backup system, a project that will strengthen the facility’s operations. At the local level you can make such a huge difference, but you’ve got to have a partner in Washington, D.C. that’s willing to work with you, listen to good ideas, and then actually fight to make it happen.

That is the kind of partnership I want for East Texas. For fiscal year 2027, I submitted Community Project Funding (CPF) requests to equip law enforcement and first responders in three of our counties. In Gregg County, the request is for the Sheriff’s Office to buy 50 portable radios, 5 vehicle radios, 4 vehicle video systems, 70 body cameras, and the software to run them. In San Augustine County, the request is for 100 radios. In Shelby County, the request is for 65 radios. Those radios will support first responders in emergencies throughout each county.

Backup power for a police station in Arizona and working radios and cameras for deputies in East Texas come down to the same thing. When an officer calls for help, the system must answer.

Fox News took a closer look at the Motion Picture, Television, and Entertainment Revitalization Act, the bipartisan bill I introduced with House colleagues to create a federal tax credit for film and television productions made here at home. The bill adds extra incentives for productions that film in rural areas, including federal opportunity zones, so East Texas communities can compete for the work and the jobs that come with it.

“I do not want American storytelling to go overseas, to be diluted by values from overseas,” I told Fox. Texas has plenty of stories to tell: conservative, faith-based, and patriotic ones, and they put people to work.

American stories should be made in America, by American workers, in places like East Texas.

Read the full Fox News story here.

On October 16, 1859: Abolitionist John Brown led a band of 22 men in a raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, hoping to spark an armed uprising against slavery. U.S. Marines under Col. Robert E. Lee crushed the raid within days, and Brown was convicted of treason and hanged that December. The raid failed, but it deepened the divide between North and South and became a key spark on the road to the Civil War.

Dealing with federal agencies can be complicated, and my office is here to help. If you need help with Social Security, the IRS, passport renewals, the VA, or other federal agencies, please do not hesitate to reach out to my office by calling (903) 561-6349 or visiting my website.

It is an honor to be your voice in Congress.

With gratitude,

Nathaniel Moran

Member of Congress