Henry Cuellar News

Texas members of the U.S. House mostly marched in step with colleagues when the House on Nov.

Supporters of tough U.S. sanctions against the Cuban government have given more than $10 million to congressional campaigns over the last seven years, according to a study released late Sunday night by a group supporting campaign finance reform.

Judiciary committees in both the U.S. House and Senate have advanced proposed legislation that would impose a performance tax on most commercial radio stations that play recorded music.

U.S. Rep. Rubn Hinojosa announced Wednesday he will seek an eighth term in office, saying he wants to continue to work on important issues for South Texas.

Local members of Congress split along party lines in the late Saturday vote on health care reform, with Republican Lamar Smith voting no, and Democrats Ciro Rodriguez, Henry Cuellar, and Charles Gonzalez voting yes, as the bill squeaked by 220-to-215, 1200 WOAI news reports.

Opponents of a plan to open Cuba to U.S. tourists are touting a letter signed by 53 Democrats in the House of Representatives, saying it shows that they have the votes to derail an effort to lift the ban on travel to the island.

In the U.S. House's 220-215 approval Saturday of a health-care overhaul - see our published story here - the Texas congressional delegation parted almost entirely along party lines with all but one Democrat voting "aye" on House Resolution 3962 and every Republican voting "no." The measure was sent to the Senate, which has yet to act.

An eleventh-hour visit to Capitol Hill by President Barack Obama, a compromise on reproductive rights and provisions on accountability helped sway undecided Texas Democrats to vote for a historic health care bill that passed by a slim margin late Saturday.

The nation's largest doctors group came out Thursday in support of health care reform legislation scheduled for a House vote Saturday, when scores of member physicians will gather in Houston for a policymaking meeting and debate that contentious issue.

Opponents of opening Cuba to American tourists are touting a letter signed by 53 Democrats in the House of Representatives, saying it shows that they have the votes to derail an effort to lift the ban on travel to the island.The letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., urges the House leadership to maintain the current U.S. policy on Cuba, ...

By DIANNA HUNT The Texas AARP has lined up with the national organization in endorsing the healthcare overhaul bill headed for a vote in the House, saying it includes key provisions to protect seniors while expanding health insurance coverage for most Americans.For seniors, the bill would kill the 'doughnut hole' that limits Medicare prescription ...

'This data reaffirms what I have heard on our tele-town halls, from hundreds of constituents during the three open town hall meetings I held over the summer, and literally thousands of letters, faxes and emails,' Cuellar stated.

By MARIA RECIO WASHINGTON – Just as Texas Republican lawmakers were warning that the latest House healthcare bill would undo the state's existing laws on tort reform, U.S. Rep.

Republican activists opposed to the health care bill unveiled by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi picketed Tuesday in front of the Texas offices of two Democratic lawmakers who face GOP challengers next year.

Legislators protest barriers to drilling WASHINGTON - Sixty-nine lawmakers, including Reps.

Texas border lawmakers are calling on the U.S. Coast Guard to expand its operations along the Rio Grande as a way to increase the federal law enforcement presence there, help thwart drug cartels and curb escalating violence.

A top Federal Emergency Management Agency official on Tuesday said he believed that $29 billion in Homeland Security funds spent since 2002 had made the nation better prepared for a terrorist attack, but admitted his agency had no way of definitively assessing the improvement.

The Obama administration on Friday named Hidalgo County Judge Juan "J.D." Salinas regional administrator for the U.S. General Services Administration, effective Nov.

The U.S. Coast Guard patrols the coasts, and a limited stretch of the Rio Grande, but a bill in the works would change that.

Hidalgo County Judge J.D. Salinas accepted an appointment to a federal post Friday, ending weeks of speculation about his future in the position he was elected to three years ago.