Rubén Hinojosa: “Back in February of this year we lost a great Texan with the passing of former Congressman Joe Kilgore.”

I was unable to be present in the House Chamber for certain rollcall votes this week. Had I been present on May 24, 2016, for the first vote series, I would have voted ``aye'' for rollcall 235 and ``nay'' on rollcalls 231, 232, 233 and…

This H.R. 692 is nothing but default by another name. Moreover, adding insult to injury, H.R. 692 mandates that we pay foreigners instead of American servicemembers and veterans.

On rollcall No. 523, had I been present, I would have voted ``no.'' The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the engrossment and third reading of the bill. The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, and was read the…

But let us not say that $1 billion increase as was pointed out by Ms. Bauscher is too much because I was voting to approve for many, many years, 12, 13 years, spending $10 to $12 billion a month in our war in Iraq and Afghanistan. So $1…