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WASHINGTON – Congressman Vicente Gonzalez (TX-15) today announced $2,249,916 from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in grant funding for a Westway Heights Drainage Project in McAllen, Texas.
Recently, after Texas' Rio Grande Valley and Coastal Bend suffered severe storms and flooding, President Donald J. Trump announced a Federal Disaster Declaration, DR-4377-FEMA, after multiple requests from Congressman Gonzalez and Governor Greg Abbott.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Vicente Gonzalez (TX-15) issued the following statement in response to Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller's indictment of 12 Russian military officers for cyber-hacking activity during the 2016 elections:
WASHINGTON - Congressman Vicente Gonzalez has introduced H.R. 6281, the Veterans Flexibility of Annuities for Income Relief (FAIR) Act of 2018, to modify the Survivor Benefit Plan to extend the one-year opt-out window to six years.
The bill has garnered the support of Republicans and Democrats. Four original co-sponsors include Congressmen Don Bacon, Trent Kelly, Seth Moulton, and Don Young.
EDINBURG — The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley received nearly half-a-million-dollars to research and develop a new anti-HIV drug using nanotechnology that could place the academic institution at the forefront of a possible medical breakthrough.
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke awarded UTRGV nearly $500,000 in federal funding earlier this month, U.S Rep. Vicente Gonzalez announced Wednesday.
The grant will finance the research and development of a nano-formulated anti-HIV drug.
U.S. Representatives are now weighing in on the programming rights fee battle between Dish Network Corp. and Univision.
Univision programming was pulled from the Douglas County company's (Nasdaq: DISH) satellite offerings, and its Sling TV service, two weeks ago, as the two companies wrangle over Univision's rights fees.
Now, two Hispanic U.S. Representatives have weighed in on the tiff on Univision's behalf.
MCALLEN, RGV – Congressman Vicente Gonzalez says that in all the coverage given to the nation's current immigration crisis, not enough attention is given to the root cause, lawlessness and poverty in Central America.
Thousands of undocumented immigrants from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala have crossed into South Texas in recent months seeking asylum from violence in their homeland. Gonzalez recently visited El Salvador and Guatemala with Sister Norma Pimentel, executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley.
SAN ANTONIO -- Right now, former U.S. Marine Jose M. Martinez can't get back into the country he fought for.
"I've been here over 16 years. I live in Nuevo Progresso Tamaulipas," Martinez said.
He believes in his heart of hearts he's earned the right to live in the United States.
News 4 San Antonio caught up with Martinez on the Nueveo Progresso International bridge, in the spot where Mexico and the U.S. divide.
"I have never ever attempted to go into the United States illegally, it's not a part of me, " Martinez added.
EDINBURG — Individuals in Hidalgo and Cameron counties can begin to apply for assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for damage stemming from the June flooding after President Donald Trump granted a federal disaster declaration Friday.
Small brokerage firms could soon see relief from longstanding regulatory burdens.
Alabama Democratic Sen. Doug Jones and Arkansas Republican Sen. Tom Cotton recently introduced to the Senate Banking Committee an amendment to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Rep. French Hill, R-AR, and Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, D-TX, introduced the amendment to the House of Representatives Financial Services Committee.
EDINBURG — Federal disaster relief for Hidalgo and Cameron counties now rests in the hands of President Donald Trump following a formal request for aid by Gov. Greg Abbott at a briefing here Tuesday morning.