Press Releases

WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Vicente Gonzalez's (TX-15) amendment encouraging high schools with U.S. Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) to add cybersecurity coursework was included in the Conference Report to accompany H.R. 5519, the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019. The House adopted the Conference Report by a vote of 359-54 on Thursday, July 26, 2018. The Report now heads to the Senate for consideration.

WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Vicente Gonzalez (TX-15) issued the following statement in response to U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman's denial of the administration's motion to dismiss a lawsuit from states and advocacy groups regarding the reinstatement of a citizenship question to the 2020 Decennial Census questionnaire.

WASHINGTON – Congressman Vicente Gonzalez (TX-15) is encouraging Hidalgo County residents that suffered temporary or permanent job loss, as a result of recent severe storms and flooding from June 19 to July 13, 2018, to apply for available Disaster Unemployment Assistance, offered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

Recently, after Texas' Rio Grande Valley and Coastal Bend suffered severe storms and flooding, the President announced a Federal Disaster Declaration, DR-4377-FEMA, after multiple requests from Congressman Gonzalez.

WASHINGTON – Recently, Congressman Vicente Gonzalez (TX-15) spoke on the House Floor to condemn the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) over reports of the mistreatment and abuse of children at the Shiloh Residential Treatment Center.

MCALLEN, Texas – Today, Congressman Vicente Gonzalez (TX-15) visited the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) Disaster Recovery Center (DRC) Three in McAllen, Texas, to view the facility and urge Hidalgo County residents to seek out available assistance, following historic severe storms and flooding.

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) today announced that the National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) $495,042 to assist Department of Computer Science studies on the algorithmic self-assembly of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA).

The project is under the direction of Principal Investigator, Dr. Robert Schweller, and Co-Principal Investigator, Dr. Timothy Wylie. The project began July 1, 2018 and is estimated to continue until June 30, 2021.

WASHINGTON – Congressmen Vicente Gonzalez (TX-15), Henry Cuellar (TX-28), and Filemon Vela (TX-34) sent today a letter to Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator William B. Long, requesting that FEMA provide Spanish speaking representatives, or translators, to further assist residents affected by recent severe storms and flooding.