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And as for the completion timelines, when we travel to Mexico City, they were told that the Matamoros consulate was estimated to be completed in 2019 and Mexico City Embassy estimated to be finished in 2020.
So I wanted to ask--and I think, Mr. Moser, you would be the appropriate person--the three consulates in dangerous areas near the border, Tijuana, Juarez, Monterrey, they've all recently been completed in 2008, 2011, and 2014 respectively.
I wish that places like Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands had an initiative with its own government like that.
I'm sitting here and I know that we're talking about consulate construction, but I just came home from the U.S. Virgin Islands, which is now, along with Puerto Rico, considered the fourth border.
What do we do in the instances where we have a district or an area that has a 31 percent child poverty rate?
If children don't eat, that is an indictment on all of us.
I have seen how the role of criminalization and overcriminalization takes place in communities.
These statistics are stunning, but they are also very tragic.
We must strive to turn this moment into a movement. Today, I firmly believe that Congress must act in a bipartisan way to pass comprehensive legislation.
I thank the gentlewoman for the opportunity to speak. I want to thank Ms. Kelly from the great State of Illinois, as well as Mr. Payne from the great State of New Jersey for yielding me this time. I want to extend my support for the…
SNAP is the lifeline that helps them put food on the table and ensures their children... are not hungry and ready to learn.
Poverty in the twenty-first century is a shameful reality for our nation, and in the Virgin Islands, child poverty is heartbreaking.
I really wanted to thank you for all of the work that your agency does and to talk to you about one of the primary things that you all do is uncovering waste and fraud and abuse.
Section 2: ``This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the…