Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-TX28) is working to ensure federal agencies have specific performance measures in place and that they are working to improve the quality of customer service in order to better use taxpayer dollars and improve the relationship between the federal government and the people it serves. The language addition was just the latest in a continued, successful, and… Read more »
Congressman Henry Cuellar successfully included language in FY2015 appropriations bill to ensure federal agencies are not making improper payments to deceased individuals.
“Ensuring the federal government is not issuing payments to people no longer alive is more than saving taxpayer money, it’s just plain common sense,” Congressman Cuellar said. “Every single taxpayer dollar is precious… Read more »
Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-TX28), the only Democrat appointed to the powerful House Committee on Appropriations from Texas, New Mexico or Arizona, announced today that he received appointments to the Subcommittee for Homeland Security and the Subcommittee for Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies for the 114th Congress.
“Our nation’s transportation… Read more »
January 19, 2015
Christian vonPreysing
A deadline looms and debate continues over the a bill in Washington that keeps federal border agents employed.
Just days ago the house passed that homeland appropriations bill.
That's what funds the Department of Homeland Security, and keeps border patrol agents as well as CBP on the payroll.
Lawmakers have until February… Read more »
KGNS: Homeland Appropriations Bill goes to Senate (video)
January 19, 2015
By Christian von Preysing
A deadline looms and debate continues over the a bill in Washington that keeps federal border agents employed.
Just days ago the house passed that homeland appropriations bill.
That's what funds the Department of Homeland Security, and keeps border patrol agents as well as CBP on the… Read more »
January 18
18:012015
by Steve Taylor
WESLACO, RGV – U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar has given his take on the decision by House Republicans last week to link President Obama’s executive orders on immigration to homeland security funding.
In an exclusive interview with the Rio Grande Guardian, the Laredo Democrat says he believes that, at the end of the day, there will be a “clean”… Read more »
Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a Homeland Security funding bill, including specific language added by Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-TX28). Cuellar’s additions include a call for a review of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer training to ensure professionalism, and the addition of a provision which makes costs of providing care, transportation, and humanitarian… Read more »
Updated 01/05/2015 7:14 pm
Bruised and battered from a series of scandals, and amid cries of protest, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto will arrive in Washington Tuesday to meet with President Obama and try to turn the page on a difficult year.
Slumping in the polls and facing a crisis of public confidence, Peña Nieto is hoping for an Obama bounce. “He’ll be playing as much… Read more »
