Rubén Hinojosa: “I yield 6\1/2\ minutes to my friend and colleague from El Paso, Texas (Mr. Reyes), the author of this legislation.”

I was unable to be present in the House Chamber for certain rollcall votes on February 26th and the week of February 29 through March 3, 2016. Had I been present on those dates, I would have voted ``yea'' for rollcalls 100, 102, 103, 104…

To prevent such a calamity from happening again, we enacted the Dodd-Frank Act.

I am encouraged that we are doing some things right and helping a lot of people who under the conditions that our ranking member, Bobby Scott, gave that could not afford it or had preexisting medical conditions, are now covered.

I strongly believe we must reauthorize Head Start without delay.