Minority Issues
WASHINGTON — Representative Marc Veasey (TX-33) joined more than 100 of his colleagues in a letter to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director Ur M. Jaddou, to raise concern over delays in processing renewal applications for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients, and call for the agency to begin providing automatic extensions for lawful recipients in the interim.
FORT WORTH — Congressman Marc Veasey (TX-33) joined Texas Congressional Democrats and members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus in a letter urging the U.S. Department of Justice to pursue legal action to prevent the enforcement of Texas Senate Bill 4 (SB 4), an unconstitutional and dangerous bill that would authorize state law enforcement and judicial authorities to obstruct federal immigration law.
Washington, D.C. — Today, Rep.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Marc Veasey (D-TX), Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County), Judiciary Crime Subcommittee Ranking Member Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke (D-NY), Congressman Jimmy Gomez (D-CA), and Congressman Glenn Ivey (D-MD) recently introduced the Facial Recognition Act, a bill to place strong limits on law enforcement use of Facial Recognition Technology (FRT).
WASHINGTON - Representative Veasey (TX-33), co-founder of the Congressional Voting Rights Caucus, led 23 of his colleagues on a letter pressing Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg for answers after
Washington, D.C. —U.S. Representative Marc Veasey, D-Texas, and U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., led colleagues today on National Voter Registration Day to introduce a resolution recognizing September as "National Voting Rights Month."
WASHINGTON - Representative Veasey, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, issued the following statement after voting against House passage of H.R. 2670, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24):
FORT WORTH – Today, Congressman Marc Veasey (TX-33), member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, announced that Texas would receive over $3.3 billion through the Broadband, Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration.
WASHINGTON - Today, Rep. Veasey released the following statement regarding the Supreme Court's ruling in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and UNC.