Filemon Vela: “Michigan exports $12 billion in products to Mexico and 175,000 jobs in Michigan depend upon trade with Mexico.”

I would urge the Committee to once again include the San Francisco Bay Restoration Act in the upcoming infrastructure package with the same authorization level included in HR 2--$50 million annually over 5 years.

I urge my colleagues to support this legislation to protect our domestic agricultural economy from the entrance of illegal agricultural products.

States are willing to sacrifice their own political power to do harm to minority voting rights.

Most of us on this Subcommittee represent pretty large swaths of land, and I can't go to any farmer in the 270 mile stretch of south Texas that I represent without hearing about how difficult it is for farmers to get loans and financing…