Today Congressman Cuellar (D-TX-28) issued the following statement on the election of Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI-1): “I congratulate Congressman Ryan on his election as speaker of the United States House of Representatives,” Congressman Cuellar said. “What I have always wanted to see in a speaker is someone who can work across the aisle and who can bring about some level of constructive… Read more »

Today Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-TX-28) 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 waiting… Read more »

Today Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-TX-28) issued the following statement on the budget agreement reached between the White House and Congressional leaders, averting until 2017 another debt limit fight and setting funding levels for the next two years: “Last night a federal budget deal was reached between U.S. House and Senate leaders as well as the Obama administration. I am encouraged… 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 »

Today Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-TX-28) issued the following statement in response to recent news that apprehensions of unaccompanied children and families along the border have decreased by 42 percent in the last year: “While I am certainly happy to see that the number of unaccompanied children and families from Central America has decreased by 42 percent over the past year, we need… 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 »

Today Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-TX-28) issued an alert for U.S. citizens caught in the path of Category 5 Hurricane Patricia bearing down on the west coast of Mexico. The storm, classified as the strongest ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere, is expected to make landfall on the coast of the state of Jalisco later today. Mexican authorities have declared a state of emergency and… Read more »

Today Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-TX-28) signed on as a co-sponsor of Congresswoman Dina Titus’ (D-NV-1) H.R. 3696, the Medicare Premium Fairness Act of 2015. The legislation will help prevent an increase in Medicare premiums. Next year nearly 8 million Medicare enrollees are faced with a much as a 52 percent premium hike, the largest in the program’s history. A premium raise of this… 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 »

Today Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-TX-28) attended and made remarks at the announcement of a $975,000 grant awarded to the Webb County 406th District Court by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The grant will be paid out over three years and will help the court continue and expand its Drug Court Program, which allows it to offer treatment to those who… Read more »