More Religious Freedom Fights in House This Week Last week’s religious liberty battles that began on military and veterans legislation spilled over onto another bill on the floor of the House of Representatives this week. Having lost by one vote last Thursday, Rep. Sean Maloney (D-N.Y.) came back again with a measure supporting President Obama’s executive order in 2014 that required… Read more »

Chacon Creek rehab eyed Congressman Henry Cuellar announced that the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee approved language in H.R. 5303, the Water Resources Development Act of 2016 to authorize a feasibility study on rehabilitating Chacon Creek in Laredo. The committee unanimously approved this legislation Wednesday. The language provides for a study on the… Read more »

Cuban migrants scramble to claim special status in US Panama has been flying hundreds of Cuban migrants to Mexico, dropping them off close to the U.S. border so they can cross into America. The flights, expected to finish this month, are part of a deal with the Mexican government to relieve a backlog of migrants. Panama is the latest of several Central American countries to close its… Read more »

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Funding for new courthouse clears last hurdle Funding for a new federal courthouse in San Antonio cleared a final congressional hurdle Wednesday. The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee approved a project prospectus for the new courthouse, according to announcements by U.S. Reps. Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, and Lamar Smith, R-San Antonio, and others in Bexar County’s… Read more »

Apoya Henry Cuellar a veteranos El congresista busca gestionar mejores viviendas y transporte, así como vales LAREDO, TEXAS. [LÍDER INFORMATIVO].- Esta semana el Henry Cuellar, congresista de Texas, volvió alzar la voz en pro de los veteranos del condado de Webb y de la Ciudad de Laredo, manifestando las serias carencias que se viven en el sur de Texas, así como en todo el… Read more »

House committee expected to approve funding for nearly $133M federal courthouse in SA A multimillion-dollar plan for a new federal courthouse is expected to approved tomorrow. The U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee will address on Wednesday plans by the U.S. General Services Administration to construct a new federal courthouse in San Antonio for the Western District… Read more »

Cuellar says bill to end Cuban Adjustment Act unlikely to pass during election year (interview link below) Records show 100,000 Cubans have come to the U.S. seeking amnesty in the past two years. Texas Congressman Henry Cuellar some of our neighbors from the south are sending at least 30,000 more to the Texas border. "They're sending them directly on charter planes to the boarder of… Read more »

Familias centroamericanas piden asilo y un alto a las deportaciones ante el Congreso Este miércoles familias centroamericanas, entre ellos 12 niños, acudieron al congreso para solicitar "leyes que les protejan" y el amparo legal necesario para poder optar por asilo en Estados Unidos. Niños centroamericanos y sus padres viajaron de Waukegan, Illinois a la capital del país para solicitar… Read more »

Bipartisan Push Could Expand Work Visas (video link below) Immigration reform may be on hold, but a change has been made to allow more immigrants into the U.S. temporarily. Republicans and Democrats have been behind the changes that were made to the appropriations bill for this year. The changes affect the H2-B work visas for temporary workers for low skilled jobs. It would not… Read more »