On Monday, President Joe Biden signed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act into law. The $1.2 trillion bipartisan bill is the largest investment in America’s infrastructure in over a decade and a key component in the president’s Build Back Better agenda. “My...
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Sara Stapleton Barrera on her run for state senate
Sara Stapleton Barrera is a constitutional lawyer and mother who’s running for state senate in District 27, a South Texas district centered in Brownsville. Stapleton Barrera previously challenged state Sen. Eddie Lucio Jr., a conservative Democrat who’s represented...
Why Texas can’t solve California’s port delays
Gov. Greg Abbott, who never misses an opportunity to take a swipe at California, is trying to get ships stuck off the coast of Los Angeles to come to Texas. “Texas ports are open & ready to help fix America's supply chain backlog,” tweeted Abbott. “We can...
The pipeline at the heart of Ted Cruz’s state department blockade
Ted Cruz has been blocking State Department nominations for months and it all has to do with a gas pipeline in Europe called Nord Stream 2. While Cruz’s blockade is almost certainly politically motivated, and although he has expressed opposition to individual...
Veronica Escobar and Sylvia Garcia push for American Families United Act
On Tuesday, Reps. Veronica Escobar (D-El Paso) and Sylvia Garcia (D-Houston) spoke at a virtual event in support of HR 2920, also known as the American Families United Act (AFUA). The bill aims to keep families united in cases where some members are U.S. citizens and...
Ted Cruz to lift nomination blockade for China ambassador
While Ted Cruz has been stonewalling the confirmation of Biden’s State Department nominees for months, it appears he will not do so in the case of R. Nicholas Burns, Biden’s nominee for ambassador to China. Cruz, who sits on the Senate Foreign Relations...
Report: Louie Gohmert helped plan Jan. 6
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Tyler) was one of several Republican members of Congress who helped plan the January 6 pro-Trump rally that led to an insurrection, according to a bombshell report by Rolling Stone. The report cited two anonymous sources, one of whom was referred...
Senate Republicans block voting rights legislation (again)
On Wednesday, Senate Republicans blocked the Freedom to Vote Act, refusing to even allow debate on the bill. This marks the third time this year that Senate Republicans have stonewalled voting rights legislation. The bill failed in a 51-49 vote, with all...
Allred leads House Democrats in urging for voting rights legislation
On Monday, Rep. Colin Allred (D-32) led a group of his colleagues urging the Senate to pass the Freedom to Vote Act. The group consisted of 39 House Democrats, all of whom are from states where Republican-controlled legislatures are trying to use voter suppression and...
El Pasoan testifies in favor of making designating a national memorial for 2019 terrorist attack
On Thursday, El Pasoan Albert Hernandez testified in front of the House Natural Resource Committee’s Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands in favor of turning the El Paso Community Healing Garden into a federally recognized National Memorial Site....