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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.
I spent much of this week watching Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation hearing, which will likely result in her becoming the first Black woman and the sixth woman overall to join the Supreme Court in the institution's 232-year existence.
But I also started the week thinking about a time before any woman had served on the high court — 1977, specifically, when Congress funded the first and ultimately only National Women's Conference, designed to address that and other glaring omissions from American democracy.
A fifth employee at a federal women's prison in California has been indicted on charges stemming from sexual abuse of an inmate.
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – House Democrats are urging the Biden administration to have asylum-seekers request U.S. immigration benefits in their own countries rather than make a dangerous 2,000-mile-plus trek.
In a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, the 22 House members praised President Joe Biden for "addressing root causes of migration" by sending more aid to Central America but said additional steps are needed to deter irregular migration.
On Monday, a group of Democratic members of Congress from Texas issued a letter urging the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to enforce Medicaid's free choice of provider requirement and require the State of Texas to reinstate Planned Parenthood as a qualified Medicaid provider.
Rep. Lizzie Fletcher led her colleagues in issuing the letter, which was signed by Reps. Lloyd Doggett, Colin Allred, Sylvia Garcia, Eddie Bernice Johnson, Veronica Escobar, Joaquin Castro, Al Green, Marc Veasey, and Sheila Jackson Lee.
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – House Democrats are urging the Biden administration to have asylum-seekers request U.S. immigration benefits in their own countries rather than make a dangerous 2,000-mile-plus trek.
In a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, the 22 House members praised President Joe Biden for "addressing root causes of migration" by sending more aid to Central America but said additional steps are needed to deter irregular migration.
Democratic Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia (TX-29) joins Julie Mason Mornings to discuss the positive judicial implications of the FAIR Act and her meeting recently with students majoring in social work.
The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee, held a third Water Resources and Development Act (WRDA) hearing on March 16, providing a chance for Representatives to seek local project funding.
Committee Chairman Peter DeFazio (OR-4), in opening remarks, noted large recent spending increases for water projects, e.g., the new infrastructure bill and harbor trust fund policy changes in WRDA 2020. Still, he commented that even this new money cannot pay for the backlog of the Corps' projects. Hence the continuing need to be selective.
Indeed, members' requests showed communities across the nation struggling with project funding. An inherent challenge, of course, is to present a convincing case that a local project also has national value, or at least regional value.
What to do when our reproductive rights are under attack on all fronts? For Poder PAC, a group dedicated to supporting Democratic Latinas running for office, the solution is one: change the strategy.
The group has launched its five-figure "Poderosas 2022 Protection Program" to support pro-abortion Latina candidates.
"With reproductive rights under attack, it's imperative we re-elect all of our pro-choice Democratic Latinas in Congress – including our first and only Latina U.S. senator," said Poder PAC Board Chair Ingrid Duran in a statement.
HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) -- On Saturday, two members of Congress are discussing the decision to grant $750 million to Harris County in Hurricane Harvey aid money.
A news conference will be held at about 9:30 a.m. in Houston with congressmembers Al Green and Sylvia Garcia.
That plan will give federal flood mitigation money to Harris County. Last week, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced the Texas General Land Office discriminated against Houston and Harris County on the basis of race and national origin when it initially shut them out of a state competition for post Hurricane Harvey disaster funding approved by Congress.