This week, The National Retail Federations (NRF) named Congressman Henry Cuellar one of their “Heroes of Main Street.” As part of the National Retail Federation’s annual Retail Advocates Summit fly-in, the National Retail Federation recognized a bipartisan group of 289 members of Congress for their support of retail industry priorities such as international trade, patent reform, health… Read more »
Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-TX), working with Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Congressman Will Hurd (R-TX), announced today the introduction of legislation which will give states more flexibility in how they use federal transportation funds, allowing them to invest more into border infrastructure.
“This is an important bill, one that will undoubtedly… Read more »
Nuevo Laredo, Tam.- La modernización del puente internacional II Juárez-Lincoln es prioridad para el gobierno de Nuevo Laredo, por lo que al igual que la vecina ciudad de Laredo, estaría pugnando para lograr un acuerdo con autoridades federales y así por medio de inversión cien por ciento municipal realizar esta magna obra,
Tras el… Read more »
Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-TX28) today announced a $250,000 grant from the Economic Development Administration (EDA) to the Laredo Development Foundation (LDF) for the development of their new International Business Assistance Center.
Aside from the $250,000 grant from the EDA, the Laredo Development Foundation is matching $75,000 in funds for a total investment of $325,000 that will… Read more »
House Speaker John Boehner and Republican leaders are moving to revive President Barack Obama’s beleaguered trade agenda with an elaborate procedural workaround that was quickly greeted with skepticism among some Democrats.
Under the emerging plan, the House would vote on a bill that would give Obama fast-track authority to negotiate a sweeping trade deal with Pacific Rim… Read more »
House GOP leaders seeking to rebound after a surprise floor defeat on trade are zeroing in on a new strategy to grant President Obama fast-track authority.
The plan is to vote as soon as this week on the fast-track bill approved by the House on Friday but to leave aside a second part of the original package that was torpedoed by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and other… Read more »
By Matt Laslo
Monday, June 15, 2015 | Washington, DC | Permalink
Ami Bera won re-election by a razor-thin margin in the most expensive House race in the nation in the last cycle. The honeymoon period was short and the attacks on him have been harsh. Though he’s a Democrat it’s actually not coming from his right, but from the left, because he supports the president’s trade… Read more »
The good news for trade supporters is that House Republicans just bought themselves more time to complete their agenda. The bad news is they still don't know what to do with it.
The House punted on a stalled trade deal Monday, leaving President Obama's key domestic-policy priority unresolved, just days after the chamber shot down a key piece of the deal.
The House Rules Committee… Read more »
GOP leaders have no good options as they scramble to resuscitate a trade package that is critical to President Obama’s economic agenda.
Congressional Republicans and Obama suffered a jarring defeat on Friday, when trade opponents voted down a workers’ aid bill in a bid to scuttle a larger Senate-passed package that would pave the way for a sweeping trade pact with Japan, Vietnam and nine… Read more »
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Reuters
Viernes, Junio 12, 2015
El presidente de Estados Unidos, Barack Obama, hizo este viernes un esfuerzo de última hora en el Congreso para tratar de garantizar la aprobación de una problemática autorización para que finalice un amplio acuerdo comercial con países del Pacífico.
Apenas horas antes de una votación que podrá darle la ansiada… Read more »
