POR: FRANCISCO DIAZ 11 / NOVIEMBRE / 2015 -   Laredo, Texas Una reunión celebrada ayer entre autoridades locales con representantes de las compañías ferroviarias y de la Administración Federal de Ferrocarril, sembró la esperanza de reducir los graves problemas de congestión y bloqueo de cruceros del tren en la ciudad. “Creo que lo más importante de la junta es que hay… Read more »

Cuellar, Smith Slam President’s Keystone XL Decision No surprise–but plenty of frustration from Texas Members of Congress–on both sides of the political aisle–after President Barack Obama officially kills plans for the Keystone XL Pipeline. “There was no reason not to go forward with the construction of the pipeline that was going to create thousands of jobs across the United… Read more »

4 de Noviembre de 2015 Congressman Henry Cuellar recently condemned the continued long wait times for veterans seeking health care at the South Texas Veterans Health Care System in San Antonio. More than a year after news first broke of deaths caused by long waits for care at the Phoenix, Arizona, Veterans Health Administration facilities, veterans in the San Antonio region are still… Read more »

Today Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-TX-28) issued the following statement on the need to confirm a new ambassador to Mexico: “As the representative for a  region that shares a long border with Mexico, I understand the need to fill a gap in the ambassadorship to Mexico,” Congressman Cuellar said. “I support President Barack Obama’s nomination of Roberta Jacobson as the next such… Read more »

By Associated Press The Associated Press WASHINGTON Un grupo de 28 congresistas demócratas y republicanos pidió a ambas bancadas del Senado someter a voto cuanto antes la postulación de Roberta Jacobson como embajadora en México. "Les pedimos que no se demoren en traer la postulación de Jacobson al pleno del Senado", reza una carta del 23 de octubre dirigida al presidente del Senado,… Read more »

by Abby Livingston Nov. 1, 2015   WASHINGTON — Members of Texas' congressional delegation are making their support for presidential candidates known — in thousand-dollar increments from their own campaign accounts.  On the Democratic side, U.S. Reps. Henry Cuellar of Laredo, Al Green and Gene Greenof Houston, and Ruben… Read more »

The final figures are in, and the number of unaccompanied children and families with children who arrived illegally in Texas in the summer of 2015 was down 42% over last summer, News Radio 1200 WOAI reports.   U.S. Rep Henry Cuellar (D-Laredo), whose district includes much of the area where the flood of mainly Central American refugees arrived in Texas last summer, says he is… Read more »

Clinton Set to Answer Tough Questions Hillary Clinton readies to testify in front of the House Benghazi Committee on Thursday. “I think we’re going to see Hillary Clinton being very cautious,” Rice University’s Mark Jones said. And he thinks Clinton will try to not give Republicans any ammunition against her and prove “that she herself did nothing wrong nor did the government do… Read more »

SCAN opens new facility After years of migrating from different office spaces, Serving Children and Adults in Need, a local social services organization, established roots in its brand new, permanent home. The grand opening of SCAN’s new 14,000-square-foot facility Monday was attended by U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, city and county officials as well as the organization’s zealous… Read more »

US CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BACKS LIFTING OIL EXPORT BAN The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has publicly backed bill H.R. 702, proposing to lift the ban on US crude oil exports in light of “changing crude oil market conditions.” The bill, which passed through the House of Representatives by 261-159 votes, must now pass before the Senate and the President Barack Obama before it can become… Read more »