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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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
Washington, DC – Today, Rep. Sylvia Garcia (TX-29) voted in favor of House Resolution 826. This resolution expresses Democrats' disapproval of President Trump's harmful actions towards Medicaid.
WASHINGTON, DC — This evening, Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia (TX-29) was proud to vote in favor of H.R. 2474, the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act of 2019, a landmark piece of legislation that would protect the rights of working Americans to join a union and stand up for their rights in the workplace. The PRO Act protects America's workers by: