Congressman Henry Cuellar voted in support of the 2009 Supplemental Appropriations Act, major federal funding legislation worth $106 billion which supports U.S. troop efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, secures the Southwest border region against drugs and arms trafficking, protects Americans from pandemic flu outbreaks, and provides rebate funding for millions of Americans trading-in older vehicles for ones with better fuel efficiency. Read more »

Congressman Henry Cuellar along with the unanimous support of House of Representative colleagues, passed H.R. 2325, a bill to name Laredo's Post Office in honor of all veterans. Read more »

Congressman Cuellar applauds five local counties and ICE on the launch of the Secure Communities Program aimed at preventing non-resident criminals from being rereleased into our communities. Read more »

Congressman Henry Cuellar voted in support of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act which includes sweeping measures to crackdown on small arms trafficking from the United States to Mexico by increasing existing penalties to unprecedented new standards. The bill also establishes a “Merida Coordinator” to track all Merida Initiative-related efforts throughout the U.S. government and allows for new information sharing between U.S. federal agencies and Mexico. Read more »

Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-Laredo) a Deputy Whip of the fiscally conservative Blue Dog Coalition, joined President Barack Obama at the White House today where the President announced a new initiative to reign in government excess by requiring lawmakers to offset new spending with budget cuts and other revenue enhancements. Read more »

Congressman Henry Cuellar today announced that Caroline Elizabeth Lopez and Kevin Michael Beauchemin, both of Schertz, and Daniel A. Slade, formerly of San Antonio, have accepted appointments to join the 2013 class of the United States Military Service Academies. Read more »

Congressman Henry Cuellar released the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 2346, the Fiscal Year 2009 Supplemental Appropriations Bill. Read more »

Congressman Henry Cuellar today joined a bipartisan majority of the U.S. House of Representatives to pass H.R. 2187, the 21st Century Green High-Performing Public School Facilities Act, which makes critical investments to modernize, upgrade, and repair school facilities across the country. Included in the bill is an estimated $569 million in new funding for Texas schools. Read more »

Congressman Henry Cuellar today joined a bipartisan majority of the U.S. House of Representatives to pass the Mortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act. The bill, which cracks down on predatory lending practices and ensures that the mortgage industry follows basic principles of sound lending, responsibility, and consumer protection, passed the U.S. House on a 300-114 vote. Included in the bill were amendments authored by Congressman Cuellar to study the real-world impact of a major new lending accountability measure and to provide housing counseling in Texas colonias. Read more »

Congressman Henry Cuellar today announced that, under new rules issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), certain areas of Hidalgo County are now eligible to apply for millions of dollars in USDA rural development funding. The rule change resulted from legislative language that Congressman Cuellar authored and included in the committee report for the 2008 Farm Bill. Read more »