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WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Border Dem: 93,000 Cubans cross border, 'get to stay, quite honestly'

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Border Dem: 93,000 Cubans cross border, 'get to stay, quite honestly' By PAUL BEDARD (@SECRETSBEDARD) • 3/17/16 1:31 PM   Some 93,000 Cubans have flooded across the border in the last two years, 26,000 in the past six months, and are mostly given a pass to stay in the United States, according to a border Democratic House member. Rep. Henry Cuellar, discussing…

FOX NEWS: EPA crashes amateur car races with buried regulation

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EPA crashes amateur car races with buried regulation By Kenric Ward  Published March 16, 2016   watchdog.org A “power grab” by the Environmental Protection Agency threatens to crash America’s amateur car-racing industry without putting so much as a dent in climate change, warns the chairman of the House Space, Science and Technology Committee. The EPA’s move to…

LAREDO MORNING TIMES: Mayor Pete Saenz's full State of the City address

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Mayor Pete Saenz's full State of the City address Posted: Wednesday, March 16, 2016 4:32 pm | Updated: 8:35 pm, Wed Mar 16, 2016. Laredo Morning Times  Mayor Pete Saenz presented his State of the City address to a crowd of community and business leaders Wednesday morning at the Laredo Country Club. The speech serves as a summary of the accomplishments the mayor and…

Congressman Cuellar Receives Spirit of Enterprise Award from U.S. Chamber of Commerce for 10th Time

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Today, for the 10th time since starting in Congress in 2005, Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-TX-28) received the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s annual Spirit of Enterprise Award, given in recognition of his support for pro-jobs, pro-growth policies in the first session of the 114th Congress. This past year Congressman Cuellar was given a 94% rating by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. This marks the…

Le Otorga Cámara de Comercio de EE.UU. Reconocimiento ‘Espíritu Empresarial’ al Rep. Cuéllar por 10ª Vez

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El día de hoy, por la décima vez desde que entró a la Cámara de Representantes de Estados Unidos, el congresista Henry Cuéllar por el distrito 28 de Texas fue galardonado con el reconocimiento Espíritu Empresarial, conocido como “Spirit of Enterprise”, por la Cámara de Comercio de Estados Unidos por su apoyo para desarrollar trabajos y el crecimiento de la economía durante la primera…

Congressman Cuellar Cosponsors Racecar Emission Act

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Yesterday Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-TX-28) originally cosponsored Congressman Patrick McHenry’s (R-NC-10) H.R. 4715, the Recognizing the Protection of Motorsports Act of 2016, or RPM Act, which blocks attempts by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate modified motor vehicles used for racing. Joining Cuellar and McHenry was Congressman Richard Hudson (R-NC-8). For…

ROAD AND TRACK: Congressmen Work to Block EPA Proposal on Race-Modified Street Cars

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Congressmen Work to Block EPA Proposal on Race-Modified Street Cars Five members of Congress have introduced a bill to exempt full-time race cars from the EPA's street car regulations. Five members of Congress have introduced a bill to block the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from regulating former street cars that have been modified for full-time racing duty. The bill comes in…

THE MONITOR: South Texas Senior Summit on April 7

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South Texas Senior Summit on April 7   The RGV Hispanic Chamber Health Committee is well underway at making preparations for the annual “South Texas Senior Summit” that is scheduled for 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday, April 7, at the Boggus Event Center in Pharr.   The event focuses on the senior community and offers free health screenings and dozens of informational booths that…