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Margarita Torres held her chin high and gaze solemn through a three-hour ceremony to honor her son, but when the rifles saluted and "Silver Taps" notes played Saturday, her face began to soft.
The 87-year-old's eyes couldn't hold back tears anymore as she watched the unveiling of a tall marker in memory of her son, José "Joe" Campos Torres, just days shy of the 45th anniversary of his brutal death at the hands of Houston Police officers.
Mayor Turner, other Houston-area leaders, and activists are holding a public ceremony at Buffalo Bayou to unveil a historic plaza honoring the memory of Joe Campos Torres, a Vietnam-war veteran who was beaten to death by HPD officers.
A live audience interviews Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia of Texas, a former judge, who served as a "manager" during President Trump's first impeachment—which happened after he withheld defensive weapons from Ukraine, in order to pressure President Zelensky into helping him stay in power in the United States.
Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia (TX) reintroduces the PCAOB whistleblower protection bill[Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia] "The PCAOB Whistleblower Bill of 2022 strengthens the transparency of our Nation's public markets by protecting whistleblowers who have reliable information for law enforcement," said Congresswoman Garcia.
WASHINGTON (KTVZ) -- Sens. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., cosigned a letter Friday to President Biden, urging the administration to act now to extend the pause on federally held student loan payments until at least the end of the year and to provide meaningful student debt cancellation.
April 1, 2022 - WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Thursday, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) joined Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), and Representatives Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), and House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn (D-S.C.) in leading a letter to President Biden urging his administration to act now to extend the pause on federally-held student loan payments until at least the end of the year and to provide meaningful student debt cancellation.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - On Thursday Congressman James E. Clyburn joined other lawmakers in urging President Joe Biden to extend the pause on student loan payments. The letter is asking the administration to continue the pause until at least the end of 2022 and to work towards cancelling student debt.
Student loan payments have been on pause during the pandemic. They were scheduled to resume earlier this year but the administration extended it until May due to the COVID Omicron surge. The letter says in part,
Following pressure from civil liberties groups and members of President Biden's own party, the CDC will reportedly soon do away with Title 42, the Covid-era restriction that allows instant expulsions of migrants at the Southern border.
A bill that proposes to create a whistleblower program for the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has been reintroduced to the House after failing to be acted upon by the Senate in 2019.
"The PCAOB Whistleblower Bill of 2022 (H.R.7245), introduced Monday byRep. Sylvia Garcia (D-Texas), is identical to a bill (H.R.3625) that was passed by the House in 2019 but never acted upon in the Senate."
Baylor College of Medicine hosted U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia (TX-29) for a check presentation from the Congressional Community Project Funding program that will support Baylor and Harris Health's long-COVID care clinics. The funding is part of the Bipartisan Omnibus Appropriations Bill.
The bill allocated $10.2 million for Community Project Funding, of which $1.1 million was awarded to Baylor to support long-COVID care facilities, which will be expanding to Harris Health's Strawberry Clinic located in East Harris County in the 29th Congressional District.