Media
Latest News
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday said she sees potential for Republican support on parts of Congressional Democrats' $760 billion infrastructure package related to flood control and speeding up Army Corps of Engineers projects.
"Historically, infrastructure has been a bipartisan issue. Really, the communities come together," Pelosi told reporters after a roundtable with local officials and industry leaders at the Port of Houston Authority. "That gives us a real opportunity to move forward because, just to use an expression, when we decide on a project that's going to get resources, we want dirt to fly. We want it to happen."
Rep. Sylvia Garcia of Texas endorsed Joe Biden on Wednesday, giving the former vice president his sixth supporter from the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.
Garcia, who served as one of the House's seven impeachment managers during the Senate's trial last month, represents a majority-Hispanic district that covers parts of Houston.
A bilingual freshman, Garcia said she will be active on Biden's behalf in the run-up to Super Tuesday March 3. She has spoken to the campaign about going to Nevada and South Carolina ahead of their respective caucuses and primary this month.
(link to video: Meet the Impeachment Managers | Full Frontal on TBS)
Sensing despair in the face of overwhelming odds is natural. Succumbing to disillusionment when the deck is a stacked against you is understandable. Samantha Bee gets that.
These very reasons are what drive the host of TBS' topical comedy series "Full Frontal with Samantha Bee" to counter those very legitimate notions with optimism. And joy. Right now.
She's serious about this.
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.
WASHINGTON, DC — Congresswoman Sylvia R. Garcia (TX-29) released a statement expressing her opposition to President Donald Trump's FY2021 Budget.
Statement from Congresswoman Garcia:
"The President's FY2021 Budget has shown once again that he is not interested in protecting the economic interests and health of the vast majority of Americans. His demand for Congress to slash funding for a wide array of critical departments and life-saving programs is heartless and cruel," said Congresswoman Garcia.
Anna Alvarez is a working mom and grandmother — one of my constituents from the Texas 29th Congressional District. She is an example of working-class Americans who are struggling to make ends meet and are urging Congress to enact legislation to increase the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour and strengthen the country's labor laws to ensure a worker's right to start and join a labor union.
Read her story below:
Being at the center of the Donald Trump impeachment trial was an unforgettable experience for Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia. "We did this for the people, for our Constitution, and our democracy because no one is above the law," she tells People CHICA. "Nadie está por encima de la ley. I would oftentimes say that line in Spanish as well because I wanted Latinos in my district, across the country, and around the world to know that they had one of them on the team fighting for what is right to defend democracy. I wanted people to see themselves reflected in me and hear their language. That is why I also often made myself available to Spanish press because it was important for nuestra gente to stay informed on what was happening."
WASHINGTON, DC — Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia (TX-29) joined Chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Joaquin Castro (TX-20) and 31 other lawmakers in cosponsoring the House Resolution 820 calling for the designation of February 2020 as National Citizenship Month. The resolution raises awareness about the process of naturalization and advocates for the modernization and streamlining of such.
One of the most significant bills to strengthen workers' abilities to organize in the past 80 years passed the House on Thursday, the latest sign of momentum for the labor movement.
The Protecting the Right to Organize Act, known as the PRO Act, would amend some of the country's decades-old labor laws to give workers more power during disputes at work, add penalties for companies that retaliate against workers who organize and grant some hundreds of thousands of workers collective-bargaining rights they don't currently have. It would also weaken "right-to-work" laws in 27 states that allow employees to forgo participating in and paying dues to unions.
The House passed the bill with a vote of 224 to 194, mostly along party lines.