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Congressional Democrats are looking to put teeth back in the Voting Rights Act, six years after the Supreme Court gutted a key enforcement provision through its ruling in Shelby County v. Holder. Members of the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the issue at Houston's Texas Southern University on Friday.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Rep. Sylvia Garcia and members of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties held a hearing in Houston on the enforcement of the Voting Rights Act in the state of Texas.
For two years now, Democratic leaders have urged those demanding President Donald Trump's impeachment to wait for the findings of the special counsel, Robert Mueller.
As we get closer and closer to the 2020 Presidential Elections — only about a year and a half to go, but who's counting? — our newsfeed is flooded with announcements of impending presidential campaigns and promises for change. And while several of these candidates and their political platforms are giving us hope for a better future and making us think (and re-think) what it will take to bring about real change in this country, we're also thinking about who we would want to see sitting in the oval office in just a couple of years.
WASHINGTON - Amid the growing power struggle between Congress and the White House, U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Houston, intends to press for legislation that could land a candidate or staff member in jail for five years for working with a foreign agent.
By 2020, Latinos are expected to become the largest non-white voter population in the U.S. The Pew Research Center estimates that 32 million Latinos could cast a ballot in the next national election. But will they?
The answer is a solid maybe.
HOUSTON - U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia, D-Houston, will hold a town hall Wednesday about the recent fire at the ITC plant in Deer Park.
The meeting will be held from 7 to 8 p.m. at the Milby High School Auditorium at 1601 Broadway St.
According to a press release about the event, Gacia will be joined by representatives from the Environmental Protection Agency, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the Chemical Safety Board, Harris County Public Health and the Harris County Fire Marshal's Office.
WASHINGTON — Judging by their reactions, it was as if Texas members of Congress read two wholly different versions of the much-anticipated Mueller report.
On Thursday, U.S. Attorney General William Barr released Special Counsel Robert Mueller's 448-page report on Russian interference in the 2016 election.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today following the release of the Mueller Report to Congress, Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia, a member of the House Judiciary Committee, called for a clean version without redactions to be provided to Congress and for renewed investigations into allegations of obstruction of justice and corruption against President Donald Trump.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia rebuffed Attorney General Barr's recent policy reversal to withhold bail from asylum seekers.