I am encouraged by what I have seen of the Senate's permitting bill, the BAAJA Act, and I appreciate the negotiators coming together to reach this compromise.
🎉GREAT NEWS🎉
988 has resumed specialized services for LGBTQI+ youth in crisis after Congress forced the Trump Admin to restore these lifesaving services.
Trump cruelly cut these services—but CEC founder @baldwin.senate.gov and our members fought back, and got them restored!
🚨 A Senate committee passed the Mystic Alert Act—a bill to prevent future tragedies by improving access to emergency alerts during storms—clearing the way for a vote on the Senate floor. The Senate must hold a vote on it so that we can take action before the next disaster.
The bill to sanction Russia and Iran doesn't actually impose sanctions, but it does give new powers to President Trump to impose more tariffs. And American families can't afford more Trump tariffs.
What’s more American than rooting for your college football team? Bo French’s problem is that these kids don’t look like HIS version of America. South Asian Americans are American. Period. Our shared identity shouldn’t be determined by skin color.
Today has been one of reflection and service as we remember and honor those who we lost 25 years ago—those who loved them, and those who rushed in to help them that day, and in the days and years that followed. (1/2)
Today, we honor the memories, the heroism, and the patriotism of our fellow Americans and remember what happened to our country on September 11, 2001.
Let us remember the love of neighbor and country we witnessed and felt that day, and make this #PatriotDay a day of service to our fellow Americans.
President Trump has weaponized tariffs not against other countries, but against us—and Texans are bearing the second highest burden in the United States.
What's more, these tariffs impact Texas manufacturers, making it harder for them to stay competitive. Learn more at: tariffs.org/texas/
🚨 NEW: Statement from Ranking Member @robertgarcia.house.gov on Trump's ILLEGAL tracking system at the US Postal Service.
People detained by ICE agents across our region are often taken to the Montgomery Processing Center in Conroe. It is the law that Members of Congress must be permitted access to ensure fair treatment and inspect conditions. [1/2]
OTD in 2022, President Biden signed the #CHIPSandScience Act into law, creating jobs and boosting American semiconductor and microchip manufacturing. (1/3)
A vote to confirm Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is a vote for an Attorney General who promises to deny reproductive health care access in all 50 states and to deny Americans the freedoms and rights that the Department of Justice was established to protect in the first place.
politico.com
Blanche assures anti-abortion supporters that Dobbs will be ‘permanent in every single state’
The acting attorney general made the remarks during a private call with faith leaders.
I'm glad to see that Emely and her dad were released from the Dilley Detention Center earlier this week.
The trauma Emely and her family have experienced at the hands of federal agents acting in our names should not be happening in this country.
Emely Suaza and her dad have been released from the Dilley Trailer Prison! I am glad that she is back with her mom, little brothers, and the rest of her family. When ICE detained Emely on her way to church, they asked her dad to come pick her up. When he showed up, they locked him up too.
Republicans and President Trump kicked nearly 600,000 Texans off food assistance with the so-called "One Big Beautiful Bill." More than half of them are children.
cbpp.org
SNAP Tracker: People Are Losing Food Assistance as the Harmful 2025 Republican Reconciliation Law Is Implemented
SNAP participation nationwide fell by more than 4.5 million people (nearly 11 percent) between the law’s July 2025 enactment and April 2026, based on the latest month of data.
After conducting critical oversight of the Dilley ICE detention center, our message is clear: Dilley must be shut down and ICE must stop family separation, medical negligence, & childhood trauma.
In May, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) proposed changes that would give political appointees final say over all federal grant decisions and sideline the longstanding and trusted peer-review process. (1/2)
Alim Garipov should never have been taken into ICE detention. Like many detained by ICE, he's working toward a better life after leaving everything he knew behind.
I'm proud that so many in our #TX07 community stood up for him, and that together we were able to secure his release.
We know this is happening, we have seen it here in Houston. We cannot look away. And we cannot let it continue this way.
houstonchronicle.com
ICE is snatching people at airports. That's a problem for Houston.
Hobby Airport isn’t a border crossing. And the government shouldn’t treat it like one.
I appreciated the opportunity to join
@joaquincastrotx.bsky.social and my @demwomencaucus.bsky.social colleagues in an oversight to the ICE Detention Center in Dilley, Texas and to share my thoughts as we left ⬇️
Americans are being lied to about what this administration is doing, who it's detaining, and why. It has to stop.
The detention that we see in Dilley and the trauma that we see in our communities don't serve the interests of the American people. We deserve better.