Monica De La Cruz

With your current rule in place, it seems that your philosophy is moving away from the strength of our United States capital market and closer to a European system.

It is a privilege to rise in the people's House to honor Selena Quintanilla-Perez, an icon and trailblazer from south Texas whose music has transcended borders, cultures, and generations. Her unique blend of cumbia, Tejano, and pop has…

Sometimes, we do have to ask for help, and that is the fever tick issue happening in south Texas.

We are under great stress, and our farmers and ranchers through their experience of, again, property damage, loss of crops, loss of livestock.

The Biden open-border policy has affected many communities and specifically our ranchers and our farmers.

And I will make you aware of that the farmers and ranchers have said while there is the system, they have had great difficulty in actually accessing the money.

In fact, we have so much difficulty that in Brooks County one of the counties in my district, they have actually had to build a morgue just to hold the amount of dead bodies that they have found on ranch lands.

We all witnessed the disaster of Hurricane Harvey in 2017 that left much of my district under water.

Now, I would like to recognize myself, Monica De La Cruz, from Texas.

Fewer households in Houston have flood insurance now than when Harvey hit, largely due to the lack of affordability.

The flooding has not stopped, and the potential for disaster is always, always looming.

Today, we are seeing heightened Chinese aggression on multiple fronts, and we just saw this week alone the Chinese balloon.

This study will outlay for Congress the business model that organizations are carrying out with the trafficking and how they move and hide illicit gains.

I am proud to stand here today as a single mother and a small business owner in support of the Family and Small Business Taxpayer Protection Act. One of the most outrageous provisions in the Democrats' hyperpartisan Inflation Reduction Act…

When you are looking at 10 complex questions--and they are complex, and I look forward to explaining them in further detail--that is a lot of people where we have to funnel that up.

I can do that. Yes, sir.

I will have the Bureau of Indian Education get you an answer for that.

We actually have the whistleblower protection on the BIE website, bie.edu.

We look forward to your third visit.

The Pell grant program as the foundation upon which they finance their education is of utmost importance.