Veronica Escobar: “Instead, what we are doing here today is advancing a crackpot legal argument that is itself based on a racist conspiracy…”

There are so many critical issues that our Nation is looking to us to address.

Governor Greg Abbott, under the auspices of what a Republican colleague of mine just described as Texas defending itself, has actually created an incredibly hostile environment for my community of El Paso, Texas.

Would you please share with us, with the Committee and the American public, why it is really a terrible consequence for any State, whether it is Texas or any State, what the challenges are with a State deciding it is going to create its…

I have said multiple times from the dais to my colleagues on this committee many of the challenges facing our service members around quality of life, housing, food insecurity, access to world class health care providers, mental health care…