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DALLAS, TEXAS (November 3rd, 2022) –The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that six Texas organizations will receive $3,050,010 from President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act and American Rescue Plan to enhance air quality monitoring in marginalized communities.
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A coalition of Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday raised concerns about the Federal Reserve's aggressive interest rate hike campaign, warning of impending job losses as a result of the tighter monetary policy.
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Lawmakers Seek Answers about Consequences of Fed's Latest Economic Projections and Decision to Keep Raising Interest Rates
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Close to a dozen Democratic lawmakers called on Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell to explain how many Americans will lose their jobs as a result of their efforts to mitigate high inflation.
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Sens. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Jeff Merkley (Ore.), and Reps. Madeleine Dean (Pa.), Jesús Garcia (Ill.), Sylvia Garcia (Texas), Katie Porter (Calif.), Stephen Lynch (Mass.), Rashida Tlaib (Mich.) and Jamaal Bowman (N.Y.) signed the letter to Powell sent on Monday.
Given the lawmakers' concerns about the consequences of the Fed's dangerous policy decisions, they are asking Chair Powell to answer a set of questions about how many millions of people the Fed estimates will be thrown out of their jobs due to interest rate hikes, and more information about these and other unemployment forecasts by November 14, 2022.
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AUSTIN, Texas (Texas Insider Report) — Inflation, energy prices and grocery bills are top of mind for Texas families. Instead of offering real solutions to support them, many politicians have decided to engage in partisan jabs.
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The contingent of elected officials joining the festivities included U.S. Representatives Sylvia Garcia, Sheila Jackson Lee and Al Green; Houston City Council members Karla Cisneros, Sallie Alcorn and Tiffany Thomas; and State Representative Armando Rodriguez; plus City Attorney Arturo Michel.
The push to send more Republican Latinas from Texas to Congress came after Democratic Reps. Veronica Escobar and Sylvia Garcia made history in 2018 as the first Latinas elected to the House from Texas.
During the Southeast Texas Transportation Summit on Oct. 25, U.S. reps. Sylvia Garcia, D-Houston; Brian Babin, R-Woodville; and Randy Weber, R-Friendswood, discussed President Joe Biden's federal infrastructure bill and what it could mean for the Houston region.
Rep. Sylvia Garcia, a Houston Democrat, introduced a bill to bolster gynecological cancer care services at the VA. It would start as a pilot program at select VA health centers
Rep. Sylvia Garcia, D-Texas, introduced a bill to bolster gynecological cancer care services at the VA. It would start as a pilot program at select VA health centers.