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The Human Rights Campaign today, Oct. 9 released its Congressional Scorecard measuring support for LGBT equality in the 113th Congress.
EDINBURG, Texas (NNS) -- "The STEM Revolution" is the theme of the 2014 Hispanic Engineering, Science, and Technology (HESTEC) Week held on the campus of the University of Texas-Pan American (UTPA), Oct. 6-12.
HESTEC Week is an educational conference that features events geared toward promoting science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education to people of all ages and backgrounds.
The week began with a congressional panel of 10 distinguished speakers focused on increases in STEM-related degrees and employment.
Irving will host The Infrastructure Forum: The Future of Transportation and Water Thursday at theIrving Convention Center, 500 W. Las Colinas Blvd. Registration starts at 7:30 a.m., and the forum ends a reception at 4:30 p.m.
Jerry Strickland, a spokesman for Attorney General's Office, said the lawmakers appear to be engaged in a partisan effort. He said they have failed to recognize that the attorney general has ruled 40 times in the past decade that documents from the Texas Enterprise Fund must be made public.
"Yet again, the Texas Democratic delegation is more interested in political grandstanding than correctly understanding the law or the facts surrounding an issue," Strickland said.
WASHINGTON — Christer Hiort needs a new liver — the only known cure for a disease that has slowly damaged his bile ducts. He's been on the waiting list for seven months.
Under the current transplant system, the Frisco resident would probably wait about another three years, his doctor says, and get an organ from a fellow Texan.
But a new plan for allocating donated livers could send organs from Texas as far as Florida and prolong the wait for Hiort and other Texans.
New York Times reporter Manny Fernandez moderated the track's final panel, "What to do with the DREAMers." Panelists included ResidentCheck President Jorge Baldor, El Paso County Judge Veronica Escobar, The Dream.US Program Director Gaby Pacheco, Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson, National Tea Party Patriots South Texas Coordinator George Rodriguez and U.S. Rep. Marc Veasey.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – On September 10, 2014 Representative Gene Green (D-TX) led a letter to House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers (R-KY), and Ranking Member Nita Lowey (D-NY) requesting increased funding levels for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Civil Works program harbor maintenance funding in the House Continuing Resolution (CR).
After nearly a year of litigation, the Texas photo ID trial started Tuesday, September 2. Visit our trial pagefor updates from the two-week trial as it proceeds.
CORPUS CHRISTI — The U.S. Department of Justice and other plaintiff's attorneys began their challenge Tuesday in federal court to Texas' stringent voter ID law, the first national test of such laws that have surfaced following a Supreme Court rulingthat cleared the way for such measures.
On Tuesday, August 19, 2014 U.S. Congressman Marc Veasey spent a few hours at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport where he got a taste of how an airline operates on the ground by working as an American Airlines baggage handler as part of his monthly Marc Means Business initiative.