Veronica Escobar

Unfortunately, our colleagues on the other side of the aisle don't hear the suffering happening in our communities, communities like El Paso, vulnerable communities that need more testing, more tracing. This bill does that. It provides…

Without robust testing, we remain in the dark.

Congress must impose stronger restrictions on who can receive PPP loans in future funding bills.

Our small businesses are the backbone of our local economies, and leaving them out in the cold is simply unacceptable.

I just want to reiterate for the public that the Congress has funded the Department of Homeland Security, two supplementals, hundreds of millions of dollars.

Thank you Chairwoman Napolitano and Ranking Member Westerman. I look forward to highlighting water infrastructure priorities for my constituents in El Paso, Texas as the Committee considers a reauthorization of the Water Resources…

I hold them responsible for helping fuel the hatred and ultimately the violence.

In my State, unfortunately, our Governor has adopted the same tactics that many others in his party have adopted, and that is using migrants and refugees as scapegoats, trying to portray them as people to be feared, even people to be hated.

As a Nation, we are a Nation of immigrants, and we should continue to pursue the noble goal of protecting the most vulnerable.

I feel like this excess of need component essentially enables the President's--what I consider his usurping of congressional authority and usurping the will of the people.

Money is being pulled for a wall that is preventing moms and babies and dads and their children from seeking asylum protection in the United States.

I'd like to get the witnesses' perspective on a local land management issue: specifically, Castner Range, a retired training range at Fort Bliss that my community has sought to protect since the early 1970s to preserve its unique cultural…

When we don't call it out, we essentially give it cover.

I represent El Paso, Texas, which was targeted last summer, on August 3rd.

I was deeply disappointed to see an individual nominated for the top personnel job at the Department who has espoused a dangerous and radical intolerance for multiculturalism in America.

We have seen incredible, hugely consequential involvement from Russia in our elections, and this meddling in our elections is not limited to Russia

There is no incentive for the President to want accountability by having a fully seated, fully functioning FEC because he might be held accountable

It's this idea that certain people don't deserve justice. We just want to kind of get rid of the cases and move along.

I represent El Paso, Texas, which has been on the front line of many of the Trump administration's policies, like MPP, like family separation.

Tonight there was a victory. The center for public integrity sued in Federal Court for documents related to the Ukraine scandal, and this is what they have got.

The idea that the President has cooperated, that is the claim that is actually absurd.

The President has consistently cooperated with Democrats. A stunning statement.

It is clear as day. We have seen it with our own eyes. We have heard it with our own ears. Facts matter.

If a governor... conditions giving the aid to the community on the police chief smearing his political opponent, has there been a crime? The answer is yes, and that governor would go to jail.

I want to break this down in simple terms for the American public because our Republicans colleagues are working overtime to try to convince us that we didn't see what we saw with our own eyes, and we didn't hear what we heard with our own…