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Congresswoman Veronica Escobar (TX-16) announced that 53,800 El Paso households could expect to receive monthly Child Tax Credit payments beginning today, July 15th, 2021.   The Child Tax Credit was included as part of the American Rescue Plan Act, which Congresswoman Escobar voted to send to President Joe Biden’s desk in March 2021. The Child Tax Credit benefits… Read more »

Today, Congresswoman Veronica Escobar (TX-16) announced the inclusion of $1.1 million in funding for the Connecting Communities: Upper Valley First-Time Water & Wastewater Projects.  This funding would be used to provide for the design and environmental assessment for a cluster of first-time water and wastewater projects throughout the El Paso Upper Valley, benefiting over 400… Read more »

Congresswoman Veronica Escobar voted to pass the Investing in a New Vision for the Environment and Surface Transportation in America (INVEST in America) Act. This five-year, $715 billion surface transportation reauthorization and water infrastructure bill will create good-paying jobs, invest in American workers and communities, and tackle the climate crisis. This legislation… Read more »

Today, Congresswoman Veronica Escobar (TX-16) and Congressman Raúl M. Grijalva (AZ-03) led a bipartisan group of members of the U.S.-Mexico Border Congressional Delegation in sending a letter to President Joe Biden urging him to reassess the stringent and indeterminate closures and travel restrictions at land ports of entry along the U.S.-Mexico border. In the letter, the Members commend… Read more »

Today, Congresswoman Veronica Escobar (TX-16) introduced H.R. 3238, the Colonia Infrastructure Improvement Act. This legislation will address long-standing disparities faced by residents living in colonias by investing $1.5 billion in drinking water, wastewater, and surface infrastructure while creating good-paying jobs.  “Many El… Read more »

Congresswoman Veronica Escobar (TX-16) voted to pass H.R. 7, the Paycheck Fairness Act, landmark legislation that will help close the gender wage gap by strengthening equal pay protections for women in El Paso and across the country. The bill would create more effective remedies for women who are not paid equal pay for equal work by requiring employers to prove that pay disparities exist… Read more »

Congresswoman Veronica Escobar (TX-16), testified before the U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure at today’s Member Day hearing to advocate for priorities in El Paso. This hearing comes on the heels of the release of the Biden-Harris administration’s American Jobs Plan, and ahead of the Committee’s plan to markup H.R. 2, the Moving Forward Act next month. Read more »

Today, Congresswoman Veronica Escobar (TX-16) voted to pass H.R. 4447, the Clean Economy Jobs and Innovation Act. This job-creating legislation launches the research and development needed to unleash a clean energy revolution, makes a down-payment in modernizing American’s energy innovation infrastructure and puts our country on the path to achieving net-zero pollution by 2050. This… Read more »

Today, Congresswoman Veronica Escobar (TX-16) announced that the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) has benefited 6,358 El Paso businesses and organizations and retained 83,773 jobs in Texas’ 16th Congressional District so far during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. “The Paycheck Protection Program provides a lifeline to struggling El Paso businesses and the… Read more »

Congresswoman Escobar released a report with the results of an online survey on the TWC. The online survey asked El Pasoans that have been terminated, laid off, furloughed, or otherwise separated from their employer due to the coronavirus pandemic to rate their experience with the TWC unemployment application process and to provide feedback on any problems they encountered. Read more »