Press Releases
BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS – Today, Congressman Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34) sent a second letter to Governor Greg Abbott urging him to issue a freeze on property taxes for the next calendar year.
"Speaker McCarthy and House Republicans played games with Americans' livelihoods and jeopardized the full faith and credit of our country. By toying with default, Republicans risked more than $12 billion in Veteran benefits, $25 billion in Social Security benefits, and $47 billion for Medicare providers. Defaulting would have risked up to eight million American jobs.
Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34) sent a letter to Texas Governor Greg Abbott urging him to freeze property taxes for the next calendar year.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34) introduced H.R. 3464, the Affordable Homeownership Access Act with Congressman Andy Barr (KY-06). This bipartisan bill seeks to provide working families with another access point to the home buying process by providing relief to individuals and small businesses so that they can sell their homes directly to a buyer without the fees associated with being a mortgage originator.
Washington, DC – Today, U.S. Congressman Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX-34), Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-TX-28), Congressman Tony Gonzales (R-TX-23), Congresswoman Veronica Escobar (D-TX-16), and Congressman Gabe Vasquez (D-NM-2) introduced the Land Port of Entry (LPOE) Modernization Trust Fund Act.
Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34) released the following statement regarding his vote against H.R. 2, the Secure the Border Act:
BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS – Today, Congressman Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34) announced the allocation of $38,254,543 million in funding from the Emergency Food and Shelter Program-Humanitarian (EFSP-H) Program through the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS – On Monday, May 8th Congressman Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34) released the following statement regarding the expiration of the federal Public Health Emergency (PHE) and the end of Title 42.
Brownsville, Texas – On Thursday, May 4, 2023, Congressman Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34) sent a letter to Texas Governor Greg Abbott demanding answers in regards to the Texas Department of Public Safety's (DPS) new commercial vehicle inspection regime at the Veterans International Bridge at Los Tomates and the Free Trade International Bridge at Los Indios—located solely in the 34th Congressional District of Texas.
In the letter Congressman Gonzalez stated:
WASHINGTON — Representative Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34) and Ronny Jackson (TX-13) introduced the Scope3Act, a bill that would block the Biden administration's efforts to require publicly traded companies to disclose greenhouse-gas emissions in their value chains (Scope 3 emissions).