Mr. Speaker, I rise today to celebrate Thomas Street Health Center's legacy as the first freestanding HIV clinic in Houston and the Nation. Since 1989, Thomas Street Health Center has been a vital source of care for over 5,000 patients…

Mr. Speaker, across the country, State legislatures, including my home State of Texas, have advanced legislation seeking to ban transgender kids from participating in sports. Very sadly, this bill here today in Congress is seeking to do…

Blocked crossings are not only a major inconvenience, but also a real danger to our communities by slowing down emergency vehicles.

As always, I stand with our Nation's unions, and I want to ensure that airport employee members and their families have the support and dignity that they deserve, and are given the freedom to organize and to get a livable wage.

I have picked up on the work of Rep. Jim Cooper from last Congress and introduced the Don't Block Our Communities, or D-BLOC Act.

I commend Rep. Chuy Garcia for his Good Jobs for Good Airports Act, which does exactly that.

I commend my colleagues and my other half of the Garcia caucus, Representative Chuy Garcia, for his Good Jobs for Good Airports Act, which does exactly that.

I encourage all Members of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure to take them into serious consideration.

I want to ensure that airport employee members of the Service Employees International Union have support.

Through this package, I want to emphasize my support for airport workers.

I hope that this committee will take up this bill and seriously consider the safety concerns of blocked crossings in my community.