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May 3, 2019

Congressional Democrats are looking to put teeth back in the Voting Rights Act, six years after the Supreme Court gutted a key enforcement provision through its ruling in Shelby County v. Holder.


May 3, 2019

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Rep. Sylvia Garcia and members of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties held a hearing in Houston on the enforcement of the Voting Rights Act in the state of Texas.


May 2, 2019

For two years now, Democratic leaders have urged those demanding President Donald Trump's impeachment to wait for the findings of the special counsel, Robert Mueller.


April 30, 2019

As we get closer and closer to the 2020 Presidential Elections — only about a year and a half to go, but who's counting? — our newsfeed is flooded with announcements of impending presidential campaigns and promises for change.


April 25, 2019

WASHINGTON - Amid the growing power struggle between Congress and the White House, U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Houston, intends to press for legislation that could land a candidate or staff member in jail for five years for working with a foreign agent.


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April 24, 2019

By 2020, Latinos are expected to become the largest non-white voter population in the U.S. The Pew Research Center estimates that 32 million Latinos could cast a ballot in the next national election. But will they?

The answer is a solid maybe.


April 23, 2019

HOUSTON - U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia, D-Houston, will hold a town hall Wednesday about the recent fire at the ITC plant in Deer Park.

The meeting will be held from 7 to 8 p.m. at the Milby High School Auditorium at 1601 Broadway St.


April 18, 2019

WASHINGTON — Judging by their reactions, it was as if Texas members of Congress read two wholly different versions of the much-anticipated Mueller report.

On Thursday, U.S. Attorney General William Barr released Special Counsel Robert Mueller's 448-page report on Russian interference in the 2016 election.


April 18, 2019

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today following the release of the Mueller Report to Congress, Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia, a member of the House Judiciary Committee, called for a clean version without redactions to be provided to Congress and for renewed investigations into allegations of obstruction of justice and corruption against President Donald Trump.


April 17, 2019

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia rebuffed Attorney General Barr's recent policy reversal to withhold bail from asylum seekers.