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WASHINGTON— Today, Congressmen Vicente Gonzalez (TX-15) and Henry Cuellar (TX-28) released the following statement after a conversation with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer regarding border wall funding:
WASHINGTON— Today, Congressmen Vicente Gonzalez (TX-15), Henry Cuellar (TX-28), and ten other Democratic members sent a letter expressing their opposition to Leader Schumer's recent comments establishing Senate Democrats' starting negotiating position of $1.6 billion for a border wall.
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi and the small contingent of members who oppose her are both heading into Wednesday's leadership elections knowing she'll emerge as the caucus's nominee for speaker.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Vicente Gonzalez (TX-15) today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Sonny Perdue has approved a Secretarial disaster designation for the following counties in the 15th District of Texas: Duval, primary; Brooks, contiguous; Jim Hogg, contiguous; and Live Oak, contiguous.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Vicente Gonzalez (TX-15) today issued the following statement after Leader Pelosi offered her support for Rules reform in the 116th Congress.
Nine Democratic members of the Problem Solvers Caucus are urging House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to back three rules changes as she aims to drum up enough support to take over the Speakership in the next Congress.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Vicente Gonzalez (TX-15) today sent a letter to President Donald J. Trump in response to the allocation of taxpayer dollars for U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to construct a six-mile levee system in the Rio Grande Valley Sector.
WASHINGTON - Congressman Vicente Gonzalez (TX-15) was honored to celebrate this Thanksgiving with the brave men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces stationed overseas. Congressman Gonzalez traveled with a bipartisan congressional delegation to visit troops at bases in Kuwait in the Middle East and Djibouti in Africa. Last year, the congressman spent Thanksgiving with U.S.
As expected, U.S. Rep. Filemon Vela, D-Brownsville, was one 16 House Democrats to sign a letter made public on Monday opposing their party's leader, Nancy Pelosi, to be the next house speaker. If successful, ousting Pelosi would send a tremor through the party and signal a serious divide throughout the caucus, as Pelosi has led House Democrats for 16 years.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Vicente Gonzalez (TX-15) is encouraging eligible applicants in the Cameron and Hidalgo Counties to apply for an available Partnership Specialist position with the U.S. Census Bureau.