Today Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-TX-28) announced he had helped include $8 million in the Fiscal Year 2017 Defense Appropriations Bill to strengthen relationships between the United States and its allies through military training exercises under the National Guard State Partnership Program (SPP). The bill passed out of the U.S. House Appropriations Committee yesterday. The SPP was… Read more »

Today Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-TX-28) spoke with Christopher Hart, chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), and Dr. Rob Molloy, director of NTSB’s Office of Highway Safety, about last weekend’s charter bus crash on U.S. Highway 83 north near Laredo that killed eight people and injured 44 others, some from the 28th Congressional District, including La Joya in… Read more »

The Healthcare Leadership Council (HLC), a coalition of leaders of the nation’s premier health care companies and organizations, has honored U.S. Representative Henry Cuellar as a “Champion of Healthcare Innovation” at an award ceremony in Washington, D.C.   The award presentation took place at the Council’s annual Healthcare Innovations Expo on Capitol Hill. The day-long event is… Read more »

Today Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-TX-28) the passage by unanimous consent of S.2143, to grant permanent rights to the Starr-Camargo Bridge Company and its successors to operate an existing toll bridge across the Rio Grande at Rio Grande City, Texas. In 1962 Congress authorized the Starr-Camargo International Bridge Company to construct, operate, and maintain a private toll-bridge between… Read more »

Today Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-TX-28) announced he included language in the FY 2017 U.S. House Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill to bring aid to areas in the 28th Congressional District with a history of poverty. All told, the language could lead to at least $924,630,300 million going to persistent-poverty areas. Now… Read more »

Today Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-TX-28) announced the inclusion of language in the Fiscal Year 2017 House Military Construction and Veterans Affairs appropriations bill to increase telehealth options for veterans. The bill also includes the nearly $2.4 billion requested by the President for telehealth. Telehealth is the use of electronic and telecommunications technologies to support… Read more »

Today Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-TX-28) delivered the commencement address to the University of the Incarnate Word (UIW) Class of 2016. In his address, the congressman shared lessons he had learned throughout his life from his parents and from his own educational career. The congressman holds five degrees: an Associate of Arts in Political Service (summa cum laude) from Laredo… Read more »

Today Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-TX-28) announced the successful inclusion of $11.52 million to keep the boll weevil and pink bollworm pests, which plague cotton farmers in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, at bay in the Fiscal Year 2017 House Agriculture Appropriations bill. The bill has passed the full committee and now awaits consideration by the full House of Representatives. “Although… Read more »

Today Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-TX-28) congratulated the students graduating in the coming weeks from the following colleges and universities in Bexar County: • Texas A&M University San Antonio • The University of Texas at San Antonio • The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio • Palo Alto College (Alamo Colleges) • St. Philip’s College (Alamo Colleges) •… Read more »

Today Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-TX-28) congratulated students from Wilson, Atascosa and McMullen counties set to graduate from Coastal Bend College. “I congratulate the students graduating from Coastal Bend College,” Congressman Cuellar said. “The past years of study you have invested in your future will pay off in innumerable ways. Not only will they open doors of opportunity for… Read more »