“I think we can all unequivocally say in 2026, football is not going anywhere.”
“When giant corporations and Wall Street investors buy up all the fire truck manufacturers, it’s a threat to public safety.”
“I want to stop the spread. They are picking homes like you, and I pick tomatoes in the grocery store.”
“It is imperative that FEMA helps communities quickly respond to wildfires and increase their resilience to future wildfire disasters”
“They are picking houses the way you pick tomatoes at the grocery store.”
“Protecting and defending innocent life is and remains important to our Legislature, governor, attorney general and citizens.”

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On the recordMay 17, 2021
Earlier today, I was unavoidably detained in my congressional district and was not present for Roll Call Vote 144. Had I been present, I would have voted as follows: On Roll Call 144, I would have voted aye. MEMBERS RECORDED PURSUANT TO HOUSE RESOLUTION 8, 117TH CONGRESS Allred (Wexton) Beatty (Kelly (IL)) Buchanan (Dunn) Carter (TX) (Calvert) Crenshaw (Pfluger) DesJarlais (Fleischmann) Dingell (Kuster) Fallon (Nehls) Garbarino (Joyce (OH)) Gomez (Garcia (IL)) Green (TX) (Perlmutter) Grijalva (Garcia (IL)) Horsford (Jeffries) Keating (Clark (MA)) Kind (Connolly) Kirkpatrick (Stanton) Lawson (FL) (Evans) Letlow (Cammack) Levin (MI) (Raskin) Lieu (Beyer) Lowenthal (Beyer) Maloney, Carolyn B. (Jeffries) McEachin (Wexton) McHenry (Banks) Meng (Clark (MA)) Napolitano (Correa) Ocasio-Cortez (Bush) Payne (Pallone) Rice (NY) (Peters) Ruppersberger (Raskin) Rush (Underwood) Sewell (DelBene) Slotkin (Axne) Stevens (Axne) Tlaib (Garcia (IL)) Waters (Barragan) Wilson (SC) (Timmons) Wilson (FL) (Hayes) ____________________
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Democratic · Texas
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