Press Releases
HOUSTON, TX - Today, Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia (TX-29) filed legislation that would provide minority-owned businesses $3 billion in grants through the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA). It was included as a provision in The Take Responsibility for Workers and Families Act, H.R. 6379, the coronavirus economic stimulus package unveiled earlier today by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. This provision would support the MBDA in fully implementing the Initiative to Build Growth Equity Funds for minority-owned businesses.
HOUSTON, TX - Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia (TX-29) and Congressman Lloyd Doggett (TX-35) led 15 House Democratic colleagues in urging House and Senate leadership to waive the two years waiting period for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) beneficiaries applying for Medicare. Individuals with disabilities face many barriers to health care and are often left out without affordable options.
HOUSTON, TX – Today, bipartisan members of the Houston Congressional delegation released the following statement on the coronavirus pandemic. Joining the statement were Representatives Sylvia Garcia (TX-29), Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07), Pete Olson (TX-22), Dan Crenshaw (TX-02), Al Green (TX-09), Michael McCaul (TX-10), and Sheila Jackson Lee (TX-18).
WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia (TX-29) voted in favor of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, a strong, bipartisan bill that builds on the House Democrat's first coronavirus-related bill - the $8.3 billion emergency supplemental package.
The Families First Coronavirus Response Act includes:
WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the Supreme Court heard arguments on the June Medical Services v. Russo abortion access case. The case challenges a Louisiana law that requires doctors performing abortions to have hospital admitting privileges, almost identical to the Texas law that was struck down in 2016.
WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia (TX-29) announced that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded nearly $11 million to BakerRipley for its Head Start Programs.
BakerRipley's Head Start and Early Head Start Programs provide comprehensive child development and familiy support services to low-income infants, toddlers, pre-school children and their families all across the greater Houston area.
WASHINGTON, DC — Today in the House Committee on the Judiciary, Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia (TX-29) chaired a Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship hearing on "The Current State of the United States Refugee Program." The hearing examined the impact of the administration's efforts to effectively weaken the U.S. refugee resettlement program and make it more difficult for migrants to present asylum claims. Congress has a responsibility to ensure that the U.S.
HOUSTON, TX – Yesterday, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia (TX-29) hosted a roundtable discussion with business, labor, and community leaders at the Port of Houston. They spoke about the House Democrats' new bold Moving Forward infrastructure proposal and how it would help address some of the country's most urgent infrastructure needs, from the massive maintenance backlog, to designing safer streets, to putting the U.S. on a path toward economic growth that also promotes environmental sustainability and increased resiliency planning.
WASHINGTON, DC — Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia (TX-29) condemns the Administration's reckless and unlawful plan to transfer $3.8 billion from important defense accounts for border wall construction. For the second year in a row, Trump will raid the Department of Defense's resources for money for the U.S.-Mexico border wall. Congresswoman Garcia and several lawmakers have fiercely opposed such transfers and will continue to denounce this Administration's thoughtless actions.
Washington, DC - Today, in the House Judiciary Committee, Representative Sylvia Garcia (TX-29) delivered the following remarks during the markup of H.R. 2214, the National Origin-Based Antidiscrimination for Nonimmigrants (NO BAN) Act:
"Mr. Chairman I move to strike the last word.