Veronica Escobar

I got to share with you the roundtable conversations I have been having with our Active Duty service members at Fort Bliss.

I want to shout out and thank you both.

I have been so pleased and honored to serve on this Quality of Life Panel and so impressed with the leadership by our chair and by our ranking member.

It is really tragic because our Nation deserves bipartisan solutions that make sense and that help our country.

Obviously, what Greg Abbott is doing is an absolute failure. There is nothing about what Greg Abbott is doing that is about trying to improve the situation, trying to solve a great challenge.

This hearing is a very brazen effort to provide political cover to my Governor, Government Greg Abbott, who has unconstitutionally used State resources to try to impose the State's own immigration policies and laws.

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

For those Republicans who are tired of complaining and really want a solution, please join our bipartisan coalition, a coalition that worked on real solutions, legislative solutions. It is called the Dignity Act of 2023. It addresses the…

The more time we waste on the bizarre focus that we have seen this Congress, the less time we have to truly think through real answers.

This seems to have become a vehicle for promoting Breitbart News and agendas around politics.

I want to remind the Committee that industrial large-scale factory farms are the biggest source of water pollution and water use in the USA.

We must strengthen the local food systems by expanding urban farming, investing in food security, and continuing to invest in food assistance programs like SNAP and WIC.

My bill is an important step forward in holding the swine industry accountable by limiting the horrific conditions pregnant pigs are kept in.

Traditionally, there has been insufficient Federal funding for colonias.

I would like to discuss my bill, H.R. 2740, establishing an Office of Colonia Affairs within the Department of Agriculture.

It must adequately fund rural development programs that foster economic growth for communities across the country.

This Committee must continue to ensure families across this country have access to affordable, healthy, and nutritious foods.

I appreciate the opportunity to advocate for the needs of my community.

This funding is a win-win for farmers and for the planet.

It is pretty brazenly and blatantly unconstitutional.

I believe, and many civil rights advocates believe, this will increase the racial profiling that is happening in Texas, and that it is unconstitutional.

Ms. Clarke, will you commit to a review of whether Federal funding sources are being used to support Operation Lone Star...

I have raised the issue before with your Department about my State, the State of Texas, and Governor Greg Abbott...

I want to especially recognize the Civil Rights Division for the incredible work you all did prosecuting the self-proclaimed white nationalist...

I want nothing more than for students to feel safe on their college campuses.