Today Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-TX-28) announced the passage by the full U.S. House of the Fiscal Year 2017 Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations. Congressman Cuellar included a number of provisions in the bill to support homeless veterans. The bill passed the House Thursday on a vote of 295-129. Congressman Cuellar’s language has several parts. First, it encourages… Read more »

Today Congressman Henry Cuellar announced the passage by the full U.S. House of the Fiscal Year 2017 Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations bill. The bill passed on a vote of 295-129 Thursday Thursday and includes language by the congressman to support homeless veterans in Laredo. Congressman Cuellar’s language has several parts. First, it encourages the U.S. Department… Read more »

Today Congressman Cuellar (D-TX-28) announced that he included language in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that passed the full House last night to provide Laredo Community College (LCC) with additional space on the site of Fort McIntosh, near LCC. The Army Reserve currently is in possession of this historic building on the south west side of the Colbern United States Army… Read more »

Today Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-TX-28) announced the passage by the full U.S. House of the Fiscal Year 2017 House Military Construction and Veterans Affairs appropriations bill. The bill includes language to increase telehealth options for veterans. The bill also includes the nearly $2.4 billion requested by the President for telehealth. The bill passed on a vote of 295-129… Read more »

The First Lady of Honduras, Ana Rosalinda García de Hernández, toured the Laredo North Border Patrol and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities in Laredo today. She was personally invited by Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-TX-28). First Lady García de Hernández also speak to students at Texas A&M International University regarding immigration and her tour of similar… Read more »

Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-TX-28) announced he included language in the U.S. House’s Fiscal Year 2017 Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations bill to support homeless veterans. Congressman Cuellar’s language has several parts. First, it encourages the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to work with local service agencies, particularly in small and rural… Read more »

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 »

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 »