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HOUSTON, TX – Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia (TX-29) issued the following statement in response to Senate leaders and the White House reaching a deal on the nearly $2 trillion Senate stimulus package:
"The coronavirus pandemic is an unprecedented public health crisis that is affecting everyone around the world. Here at home, in Houston, and all across the country, hardworking families are losing their jobs or on the brink of doing so, small businesses are being forced to close, and major industries have come to a standstill.
HOUSTON, TX - Today, Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia (TX-29) made the following statement in response to the Stay at Home Order issued by Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo and Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner:
"Thank you Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo and Mayor Sylvester Turner for taking bold action that will save lives. It will take a regional response with Galveston and Fort Bend counties to stop the further spread of this virus and support all of the workers on the front lines.
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. lawsuit, which would strike down the entirety of the ACA as well as pre-existing condition protections for 130 million Americans, including nearly 4.8 million Texans, amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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:
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.
"Right now, tens of thousands are living in tent camps and shelters along the border waiting for asylum," said Congressman Joaquin Castro, chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.
"They have suffered the dehumanizing experience of waiting for months just to assert their legal rights because of Remain in Mexico, metering, and other hurdles intentionally created by the Trump Administration to block migrants from entering the US."
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.
Like a similar fiasco in Arizona in the 2016 presidential primary, it appears that at least partially to blame for the long waits in the Houston area was its recent shift to a vote center model — an innovation that is generally praised by voter advocates and has worked well elsewhere in the country.