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Casar, Castro Introduce Amendment to Block Federal Funding for Operation Lone Star

By San Antonio Standard Report | Sep 13, 2023

“Not one federal cent should go toward caging families, cutting innocent people with razor wire, or drowning children”

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Rep. Tony Gonzales Introduces Legislation to Reduce Assaults on Law Enforcement Officers

By San Antonio Standard Report | Sep 13, 2023

On September 5, Congressman Tony Gonzales (TX-23) introduced the Curbing Offenses on Policing Services (COPS) Act in the U.S. House of Representatives. The COPS Act increases penalties for individuals who assault first responders and law enforcement officers with a deadly or dangerous weapon.

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Castro, Casar Introduce Amendment to Block Federal Funding for Operation Lone Star

By San Antonio Standard Report | Sep 13, 2023

This week, Congressman Joaquin Castro (TX-20) and Congressman Greg Casar (TX-35) introduced an amendment to the FY2024 Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Bill to prohibit federal homeland security funding from being used for Operation Lone Star.

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Governance Committee Hears Update On “Baby Box” Install

By San Antonio Standard Report | Sep 5, 2023

The Governance Committee considered the initiative to install newborn safety devices at fire stations across the City of San Antonio. Exactly one year ago today, Councilman John Courage filed the Council Consideration Request, “Safe Babies SA.” At that time, the Dobbs decision had recently been handed down and with it the recognition that comprehensive reproductive healthcare had been stripped by the U.S. Supreme Court and the Texas Legislature.

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Cornyn, Cruz on Nomination of John Kazen for U.S. Southern District of Texas

By San Antonio Standard Report | Sep 5, 2023

U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) released the following statements on the nomination of John Kazen to fill a judicial vacancy on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas in Laredo:

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Congressman Greg Casar Drafting Legislation to Connect Texas to the National Grids

By San Antonio Standard Report | Sep 5, 2023

On August 31, Congressman Greg Casar (D-Texas) announced he is actively drafting federal legislation to require Texas’s electrical grid, operated by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), to connect to the national grids.

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Castro, Escobar, and Texas Democrats Call on the Department of Justice to Investigate Operation Lone Star National Guard Shooting

By San Antonio Standard Report | Sep 5, 2023

This week, Congressman Joaquin Castro (TX-20), Congresswoman Veronica Escobar (TX-16), and nine additional Democrats from the Texas House delegation sent a letter to the Department of Justice (DOJ) asking for a comprehensive investigation into the shooting of a Mexican national by a Texas National Guard servicemember along the border of El Paso and Ciudad Juarez.

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San Antonio Airport System Shares Contracting Opportunity Information

By San Antonio Standard Report | Aug 29, 2023

Next week, the San Antonio Airport System (SAAS) will help host a Virtual Texas Airports Rental Car Supplier Diversity Outreach Day. The main goal is to share information about contracting opportunities with rental car concessionaires.

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Casar, Doggett, & Texas Democrats Urge Pause on Medicaid Redeterminations, Corrective Action to Texas System

By San Antonio Standard Report | Aug 29, 2023

Texas already has the worst uninsured rate in the nation.

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Rep. Tony Gonzales Announces Bipartisan Ag Hotline Legislation

By San Antonio Standard Report | Aug 29, 2023

Agricultural Producers Currently Face a Suicide Rate 3.5X Higher Than the General Population

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Congressman Castro, Texas Democrats Call on Biden Administration to Stop Catastrophic Loss of Medicaid Coverage in Texas

By San Antonio Standard Report | Aug 29, 2023

This week, Reps. Joaquin Castro (TX-20), Lloyd Doggett (TX-37) and Greg Casar (TX-35), together with the entire Texas Democratic congressional delegation, urged the Biden Administration to quickly intervene in the Medicaid redetermination process in Texas to prevent the catastrophic loss of health care coverage for vulnerable Texas families.

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More school closures? 10 positive COVID-19 tests shut down Texas school district

By San Antonio Standard Report | Aug 25, 2023

South Texas school district Runge Independent School District (RISD) temporarily closed due to multiple staff members testing positive for COVID-19, with the closure occurring around two weeks after the school year began, according to a report. The closure was reported on Aug. 21, and classes are set to resume on Aug. 29.

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Airport Adds Another Nonstop Flight: Philadelphia

By San Antonio Standard Report | Aug 22, 2023

San Antonio International Airport (SAT) is adding another city to its list of nonstop destinations. American Airlines announced today it will launch daily, nonstop service from SAT to Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) on June 5, 2024.

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Congressman Castro and Congressional Hispanic Caucus Members Call on the Biden Administration to Investigate Governor Abbott’s Migrant Family Separation Practices

By San Antonio Standard Report | Aug 22, 2023

This week, Congressman Joaquin Castro (TX-20), Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) Chair Nanette Barragán, Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia (TX-29), Congressman Tony Cárdenas (CA-29), Congresswoman Veronica Escobar (TX-16), and 23 additional CHC members sent a letter to the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) demanding a full and transparent investigation into the intentional separation of migrant families at the hands of the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS). The letter also requested that both agencies take necessary measures to prevent this cruel practice and ensure that families can remain together. This letter comes following multiple reports that DPS is arresting and incarcerating men who arrive in the United States and separating them from their families as part of Operation Lone Star.

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Mayor Announces Housing Board Appointments

By San Antonio Standard Report | Aug 15, 2023

Mayor Ron Nirenberg today named new commissioners to the Opportunity Home San Antonio board and to the Housing Commission.

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Casar, Castro, Cuellar, Gonzales Urge USPS to Bring Back Water for San Antonio Letter Carriers

By San Antonio Standard Report | Aug 15, 2023

San Antonio’s letter carriers used to get water bottles at the start of work – in the middle of a heat wave, that ended.

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Castro, Salazar, Meeks, Mccaul Statement on Assassination of Ecuadorian Presidential Candidate Fernando Villavicencio

By San Antonio Standard Report | Aug 14, 2023

On August 10, House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee Ranking Member Joaquin Castro (TX-20) and Chairwoman María Elvira Salazar (FL-27), and House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Gregory Meeks (NY-05) and Chairman Michael McCaul (TX-10), issued the following statement expressing outrage and calling for an investigation and prosecution of the assassination of Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio:“

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Roy: 'The federal government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally failed'

By San Antonio Standard Report | Aug 10, 2023

Rep. Chip Roy recently led 18 House Republican colleagues in a letter urging Speaker Kevin McCarthy for pandemic response reforms through PAHPA reauthorization, emphasizing COVID-19 failures and calling for funding adjustments, oversight and accountability. Roy added that these measures would protect the American people from "tyrannical, incompetent and largely unchecked public health bureaucrats."

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Moses Rose’s Hideout Owner Reach Agreement on Purchase of Building

By San Antonio Standard Report | Aug 8, 2023

General Land Office, City of San Antonio, Alamo Trust and Moses Rose’s Hideout Owner Reach Agreement on Purchase of Building

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Senate & House Progressives Announce New Pro-Worker, Pro-Farmer Bills

By San Antonio Standard Report | Aug 7, 2023

Democrats are Putting Farmers & Workers Over Greedy Corporations