Veronica Escobar

We have to achieve a place where we are saving our planet together.

This is not what I would call pro-life. We should not allow them to get away with calling themselves pro-life.

However, their actions don't connote any respect or reverence for life whatsoever.

I want to say to those service members how proud I am of the work that they are doing to offer that hospitality.

What is happening in Afghanistan is the administration is doing everything possible to save lives essentially, to get as many people out. What they have done in terms of the number of flights and the number of people has been nothing short…

I represent El Paso, Texas, and Fort Bliss is the military installation--one of those that has been identified for its rate of women who are vulnerable to--or victims, rather, who are vulnerable to sexual assault and sexual harassment.

I think that is another area for us to explore.

I think what we're going to see on the floor today and tomorrow probably will be an absence of many of our Republican colleagues.

I have to respond to one of my colleagues who has chosen not to govern on this important issue today.

I really look forward to exploring with you and would seek your commitment to really taking a long, hard look at the cost-benefit analysis there.

But what, in your view, is happening? What is going on here where we have not done well enough? And what are the first steps to doing better?

I really appreciate your leaning into addressing sexual harassment and sexual assault, because on many fronts we really, truly have failed women and we have to do better.

I introduced the Vanessa Guillen Military Justice Improvement and Increasing Prevention Act to modernize the military justice system.

The climate crisis is an imminent threat and as a member of both the Armed Services Committee and the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, I have been raising the alarm for what it will mean for our national security and installation…

It was alarming to see just how easy it was for the Department to take funds allocated by Congress for certain programs and redirect them towards something as ineffective as a border wall.

I am a firm believer that if DOD can begin to plan for climate mitigation and be proactive on climate that there is no excuse for civilians to do the same.

We know that, leading up to the January 6th attack, former President Donald Trump and others pushed the 'big lie' that the election was stolen.

We were at the intersection of America's hate epidemic, fueled by anti-immigrant rhetoric.

I think we need to examine that standard first and create a standard and meet that standard or exceed it.

In many respects a lot of women in the military right now feel like the military and the Federal Government have failed them.

I am so proud to have submitted one of these projects to your subcommittee for consideration.

I urge the subcommittee to take this into consideration while you are drafting your final bill.

Expanding broadband access in these areas would positively impact the lives of over 3,000 students.

The pandemic exacerbated the digital divide. It has harmed our students, especially the most vulnerable and marginalized communities.

An institution, as you know, like UTEP, which is a Hispanic-serving institution, brings badly needed diversity to the way that we operate as a country, as a government.