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HOUSTON, TX - Hoy, la congresista Sylvia Garcia (TX-29) hizo la siguiente declaración en respuesta a la Orden de estadía en el hogar emitida por la jueza del condado de Harris Linda Hidalgo y el alcalde de Houston Sylvester Turner:
HOUSTON, TX – On the 10th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia (TX-29) joined Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (IL-09) and 125 of her House Democratic colleagues in a letter demanding for the Trump Administration to end its Texas v. U.S.
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.
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.
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:
BROWNSVILLE, RGV – The Congressional Hispanic Caucus has condemned the Trump Administration for its plans to send Mexican asylum seekers to Guatemala as part of a bilateral agreement between the Department of Homeland Security and the Guatemalan Government.
As part of an asylum agreement between the US and Guatemala, the U.S. started sending asylum-seekers from Honduras and El Salvador to Guatemala in November 2019.
That voters in Texas' largest county were forced to wait several hours to cast ballots on Tuesday was rightfully derided as unacceptable — and even as an example of voter suppression, given that some of longest lines were in minority neighborhoods.
But what happened in Harris County during its Super Tuesday primary election is more complicated than being just another chapter in Texas' long history of restrictive voting policies, though that history certain provides an important context.
"Are you Val Demings?" an excited teenager asked as she approached the Florida congresswoman in the basement of the Cannon House Office Building last week.
"Yes, I am," Demings confirmed.
"Oh, my God, you did so amazing during impeachment," said the teenager, who identified herself as Catherine from Kentucky, offering a few more compliments before running to catch up with her tour group.
Young voters and black voters were two of the demographics that helped former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders emerge as the clear front-runners on Super Tuesday. But how voters made decisions around issues like health care and electability were more complicated, highlighting some of the challenges the two candidates will face in the final months before the Democratic Party convention.