Monica De La Cruz: “The Biden open-border policy has affected many communities and specifically our ranchers and our farmers.”

In Hidalgo County, we are, again, 90-percent Hispanic, and we have a large population of automobile owners who come from Mexico and do not have insurance. Thus, it is not because we are Hispanic that we pay more.

I rise today to honor a McAllen native, Firefighter Sergeant Jhonier Daniel Marin. Sergeant Marin's life is defined by answering the call to service. At age 18, he joined the U.S. Army Reserve. By age 19, he was a certified Texas…

As you know, I am on the Financial Services Committee, and I came from that hearing over to this hearing.

I would rather--more accurately characterize it as a monologue.