Its an update to an issue that's been going on for quite sometime. On Monday the office of Congressman Henry Cuellar, announced that a large portion of contaminated soil at the former Anzon site, has been cleaned. The site is now being redeveloped into a sewer treatment plant. At one time the largest antimony smelter in the world, the former Anzon site was originally located in… Read more »

Judith Rayo LAREDO MORNING TIMES lmtonline.com About 100 students prepared Saturday morning to enter into their second year at TAMIU’s Minority Science and Engineering Program. The program is a science, technology, engineering and mathematics-based academic enrichment program that emphasizes the development of abstract reasoning and problem solving skills.   The… Read more »

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Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-TX-28) today attended an event at Texas A&M International University (TAMIU) celebrating the beginning of the second year of a three-year grant to improve minority representation in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Congressman Cuellar helped to secure a three-year federal funding grant of approximately $750,000… Read more »

Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-TX-28) today awarded Sergeant Valentin Moreno, a veteran with the United States Army, with the Purple Heart Award. The Purple Heart is awarded to members of the armed forces of the United States who are wounded by an instrument of war in the hands of the enemy. It was established by General George Washington in 1782. For injuries received on August 19, 1969… Read more »

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Today, Rep. Cuellar (D-TX-28) marked Women’s Equality Day, a celebration of the 95th anniversary of the adoption of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which ensured women’s right to vote across the country. This hard-won victory came after 72 years of marching and petitioning as well as ostracism and imprisonment following the first major women’s rights conference at Seneca… Read more »

When Donald Trump said he’d build a wall across the southern border and that Mexico would pay for it, some people in South Texas wondered how the billionaire mogul would swing a deal like that. Now they know. In a newly released position paper — the first and only so far of his presidential campaign — Trump has announced that he would slap new costs or regulations on virtually every… Read more »

Ante la presentación del proyecto de modernización para los Puentes Internacionales 1 y 2 en Laredo, Texas, el presidente municipal de Nuevo Laredo, Carlos Canturosas Villarreal, ratificó su postura de acelerar este proceso en el lado mexicano. En una reunión en las inmediaciones del Puente Internacional II “Juárez-Lincoln”, el congresista federal Henry Cuéllar, presentó y dio el… Read more »

But make no mistake, even U.S. refiners are switching sides in this argument. Why No Blanket Repeal of the Oil Export Ban? Barrel Russell, president of the Unbiased Petroleum Affiliation of America, stated the choice is a towards a full repeal of a U.S. crude oil export ban enacted within the 1970s. Exporting light crude would be a boon to not only those Texas producers in the Permian… Read more »