Press Releases
MCALLEN, Texas – Today, Congressman Vicente Gonzalez (TX-15) announced the location of a mobile COVID-19 testing site in Hidalgo County in the 15th District of Texas. Testing begins Wednesday, June 3.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Vicente Gonzalez (TX-15) and 52 bipartisan members of Congress called on U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar to include senior living communities in future distributions of CARES Act coronavirus relief funding.
MCALLEN, Texas – Today, Congressman Vicente Gonzalez (TX-15) announced the location of a mobile COVID-19 testing site in Hidalgo County in the 15th District of Texas. Testing begins Tuesday, June 2.
MCALLEN, Texas – Today, Congressman Vicente Gonzalez (TX-15) released a statement following President Trump's overnight tweet about the Minneapolis protests and looting:
"Violence is never the answer. The footage of George Floyd was almost unbearable to watch. His death was tragic and avoidable.
Now is the time for systemic change to reform how law enforcement views and interacts with our communities.
MCALLEN, Texas – Today, Congressman Vicente Gonzalez (TX-15) announced $504,979 in Coronavirus (COVID-19) supplemental funding for Nuestra Clinica Del Valle. These funds are to help Nuestra Clinica expand testing for coronavirus treatment.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Vicente Gonzalez (TX-15) voted to pass a critical, bipartisan bill to deliver further relief for small businesses in the 15th District of Texas. Led by Congressmen Dean Phillips of Minnesota and Chip Roy of Texas, H.R. 7010, the Paycheck Protection Program Flexibility Act makes key fixes to the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) to assist small business owners in South Texas and across the country who are struggling the most as a result of the coronavirus.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Vicente Gonzalez (TX-15) joined a bipartisan, bicameral group of 125 Senators and Members of Congress in a letter to President Donald Trump, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Peter Gaynor calling on the administration to ensure National Guard personnel who are serving on the front lines of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) response efforts across the nation receive the federal benefits they have earned.
MCALLEN, Texas – Next week, Congressmen Vicente Gonzalez (TX-15) and Filemon Vela (TX-34) will deliver messages via phone to remind constituents to complete the once-a-decade Census.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Vicente Gonzalez (TX-15) released a statement on his use of proxy voting:
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Vicente Gonzalez (TX-15) announced a $9,572,032 federal grant award for the City of McAllen transit system. Metro McAllen received more than $9 million in Federal Transit Administration (FTA) funds through the CARES Act.