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Lockheed Martin's deal to sell a new round of F-35s at a reduced cost to the Pentagon had little to do with President Donald Trump despite the commander in chief's boasts to the...
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"Some people call it alternative facts, I call it just flat-out exaggeration," said Rep. Marc Veasey, a Fort Worth Democrat who supports the F-35 program.
Cody Edwards thought he had landed his dream job. The Irving man was so excited to move to Port Aransas on New Year's Eve with his pregnant wife to start a new job at the Padre Island National Seashore, also known as PINS, on Jan. 8.
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He reached out to members of Congress, including the office of U.S. Rep. Marc Veasey, D-Fort Worth, which contacted several people, especially a National Park Service legislative liaison who helped Edwards regain his job as a visitor use assistant at PINS.
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WASHINGTON — When Christin Davis, an acting instructor in Austin, decided to contact her senators for the first time, she was excited and nervous. She wrote out a script for her message, opposing President Donald Trump's executive order banning Syrian refugees, on a note card so she wouldn't make any mistakes.
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Rep. Brendan Boyle thinks all the Republicans who are telling him privately that the new White House is "absolutely crazy, and that [Donald] Trump doesn't know what he's doing" should be ashamed of themselves for not saying it publicly.
Rep. Marc Veasey says "there's high-profile Republicans that you talk to on the House floor, in committee, and if you even bring up the president's name, they just roll their eyes."
On Friday evening, President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning people from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States and halting the country's acceptance of refugees.
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Most of Texas's Democratic representatives in congress also opposed the ban, including Henry Cuellar, Lloyd Doggett, Al Green, Gene Green, Sheila Jackson Lee, Bernice Johnson, Beto O'Rourke, Marc Veasey, Filemon Vela, and Joaquin Castro.
The positive reaction from Texas Republicans to the nomination of Neil Gorsuch, a 49-year-old member of a Denver-based appeals court, was swift and strong.
NBC 5 has been reaching out to your lawmakers regarding President Donald Trump's Executive Action on refugees. We have asked for comments from the North Texas Delegation in...
Thirteen people detained at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport under an executive order signed Friday by President Donald Trump had all been released by Sunday evening. It appears that a...
WASHINGTON — A lone Republican, U.S. Rep. Will Hurd of Helotes, joined a handful of the Texas delegation's Democrats in challenging President Donald Trump's executive order banning travel from seven predominantly Muslim countries.
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U.S. Rep. Marc Veasey of Fort Worth announced on Twitter he was at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, one of the country's largest airports, assisting the detained.
Republican members of Congress from Texas' Tarrant County did not break with Donald Trump's executive order banning refugees from seven majority Muslim countries on Sunday, either...
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In contrast, North Texas Democratic Reps. Marc Veasey and Eddie Bernice Johnson oppose Trump's order. Veasey traveled to the Dallas-Fort Worth airport on Saturday night to join the protests.