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Congresswomen Veronica Escobar (TX-16), Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), Barbara Lee (CA-13), and Jan Schakowsky (IL-09) led more than 155 of their colleagues in calling on House Democratic leadership to ensure that any future COVID-19 relief packages reject Republican efforts to diminish access to comprehensive reproductive health care. “As proud members of the first pro-choice majority in… Read more »

Today, Congresswoman Veronica Escobar (TX-16) sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General requesting information about the Department’s handling of coronavirus (COVID-19) concerns and the health, safety and welfare of detainees and staff at Border Patrol Station One in El Paso, Texas and across the country. The letter followed alarming reports from… Read more »

On the 10th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, Congresswoman Escobar called on the Trump Administration and Governor Greg Abbott to end the Texas v. U.S. lawsuit. Read more »

By Emily Cochrane When President Trump delivered his State of the Union address in 2019, he pointed to El Paso as a sign of the success of his immigration policies, claiming it had been transformed from “one of our nation’s most dangerous cities” to “one of the safest cities in our country” by the construction of a border wall. In the audience, Representative Veronica Escobar, the… Read more »