Press Releases

WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Vicente Gonzalez (TX-15) announced $374,580 in federal funds for the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) to help small rural businesses across South Texas increase economic development. The funding was awarded through the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Rural Development grant program which is designed to help businesses that have fewer than 50 new workers and gross less than $1 million in revenue in rural areas.

WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Vicente Gonzalez (TX-15) announced that federal funds amounting to $1,493,168 were distributed to schools throughout the 15th District of Texas thanks to the Students, Teachers, and Officers Preventing (STOP) School Violence Act. The STOP School Violence Act funded evidence-based school violence preventing programming, mental health crisis intervention, and suicide prevention through the Bureau of Justice program, and school infrastructure under the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Grant.

WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Vicente Gonzalez (TX-15) published an editorial urging Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to accept the United States' offer of help to secure the country. On Tuesday, November 5, a massacre of nine people, women and children, in the Mexican state of Chihuahua highlighted the increasing stranglehold of Mexican cartels in parts of the country and the nation's inability to combat them.

WASHINGTON – Congressman Vicente Gonzalez (TX-15) issued a statement following the vote on H.Res. 660 to direct the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Committees on Financial Services, Foreign Affairs, Judiciary, Oversight and Reform and Ways and Means to continue their ongoing investigations as part of the existingimpeachment inquiry:

WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Vicente Gonzalez (TX-15) issued a statement in response to the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) announcement to issue an environmental waiver to expedite the building of an ineffective border wall in the Rio Grande Valley:

WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Vicente Gonzalez (TX-15) issued a statement following the vote on H.R. 469, the Protect Against Conflict by Turkey (PACT) Act in response to the recent aggression by Turkey in northern Syria against the Kurdish people:

WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Vicente Gonzalez (TX-15) issued a statement following the vote on H.Res. 296, Affirming the United States record on the Armenian Genocide:

WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Vicente Gonzalez (TX-15) praised the House Judiciary Committee on Immigration and Citizenship for holding a hearing entitled "The Impact of Current Immigration Policies on Service Members and Veterans, and their Families". The hearing sought to address the Trump Administration's tragic immigration policies and how U.S. immigrant veterans are being deported despite their service to our country.