Veronica Escobar: “I would like to begin by first thanking the subcommittee for the $900,000 increase allocated in the fiscal year 2022…”

I thank my friend, Hillary Scholten. I so appreciate her leadership and her support of the bill. Mr. Speaker, I was born and raised on the U.S.-Mexico border. I am a third-generation border resident. My children are both adults. My son…

I appreciate Ms. Manning's powerful voice. Mr. Speaker, many of the sponsors of the bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform bill, the Dignity Act, are relatively new to Congress, including Ms. Scholten and Ms. Manning, who you heard…

Instead, what we are doing here today is advancing a crackpot legal argument that is itself based on a racist conspiracy theory.

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…