Press Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Marc Veasey (TX-33) joined his colleagues to pass the Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act, which will help bring down the cost of prescription drugs and level the playing field for American patients who are paying more for their medicines than patients in other countries.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Marc Veasey released the following statement on Speaker Pelosi's announcement that House Democrats reached an agreement on USMCA with United States Trade Representative Ambassador Lighthizer:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Marc Veasey (TX-33) sent a joint appropriation letter he led with Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (MD-05) and Congressman Jamie Raskin (MD-08) to House and Senate appropriators requesting that they maintain critical funding to protect our elections at the House-passed levels of $600 million for the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) and $16.2 million for the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) in the final FY 2020 Financial Services and General Government (FSGG) Appropriations bill.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Marc Veasey (TX-33), founder of the Congressional Voting Rights Caucus, joined his colleagues to pass H.R. 4, the Voting Rights Advancement Act, in the U.S. House of Representatives. The Voting Rights Advancement Act is a critical piece of legislation that will restore the full strength of the Voting Rights Act, after a 2013 Supreme Court decision gutted key provisions of the act, unleashing a flood of voter suppression laws in America.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Marc Veasey joined a bipartisan group of his colleagues to pass the TRACED Act. This legislation cuts back on unlawful robocalls and telephone scams by empowering DOJ and the FCC to take action against criminal robocallers as well as requiring that carriers offer call-authentication technology that will help consumers and small businesses across our country at no additional charge, so that Americans can regain trust that the number on their caller-ID is correct.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, North Texas Congressmen Marc Veasey (TX-33) and Ron Wright (TX-06) introduced the bipartisan National Medal of Honor Monument Act. The legislation will recognize the city of Arlington, Texas as the new home of the National Medal of Honor Museum and also create a monument in Washington, D.C. to honor the valiant service of our nation's Medal of Honor recipients.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressmen Marc Veasey (TX-33) and Kevin Hern (OK-01) of the House Committee on Small Business introduced bipartisan legislation that will mitigate the effects of sudden growth, protecting small businesses from being prematurely forced out of the small business category. Moreover, this legislation would grant small businesses additional time to transition before competing in the open market.
WASHINGTON— Representatives Marc Veasey (D-TX), Nita Lowey (D-NY), Chris Smith (R-NJ), Eliot L. Engel (D-NY), Kay Granger (R-TX), Ted Deutch (D-FL), Randy Weber (R-TX), and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA)—the Co-Chairs of the House of Representatives Bipartisan Task Force for Combating Anti-Semitism— today issued the following statement on the FBI stopping an attempted bombing of a synagogue in Colorado:
Washington, D.C. – This week co-chairs of the Joint Strike Fighter Caucus, Reps. Marc A. Veasey (TX-33), John B. Larson (CT-01), Martha Roby (AL-02), and Michael R. Turner (OH-10), applauded the announcement by the Pentagon and Lockheed Martin that the next contract for 478 F-35 aircraft has been finalized and the cost is now the lowest in program history.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Marc Veasey (TX-33) issued the following statement after the House of Representatives passed a resolution that establishes procedures for the next phase of the impeachment inquiry into President Trump: