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Congressman Marc Veasey, TX-33, released the following statement in response to federal court ruling against Texas Voter Photo Identification Law:
"Judge Ramos' ruling is very clear; the discriminatory Texas Voter Photo ID law has been overturned and is currently unenforceable. While we don't know for sure how Attorney General Greg Abbott's appeal will affect this ruling, we do know that an appeals court has never overturned a finding by a lower court of intentional discrimination.
D/FW AIRPORT — The Ebola virus death toll has surpassed 4,000, including one in Dallas, and congressional leaders demanded Friday for more to be done to make sure the deadly disease doesn't spread in America.
They asked health officials for answers to questions they are hearing, such as why flights aren't being stopped to and from West African countries and what is being done to protect U.S. troops dispatched to West Africa to help.
The Human Rights Campaign today, Oct. 9 released its Congressional Scorecard measuring support for LGBT equality in the 113th Congress.
Fort Worth, Texas – As part of his "Marc Means Business" initiative, Congressman Marc Veasey, TX-33, will mark National Disability Employment Month and White Cane Awareness Day, by spending an afternoon working on the assembly line at Lighthouse for the Blind in Fort Worth.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Congressman Marc Veasey (TX-33) announced the launch of his newly revamped website designed to better serve his constituents in the 33rd Congressional District of Texas.
"Constituent services are a hallmark priority of my office," said Congressman Veasey. "My goal is to remove every barrier that stands in the way of my constituents' access to services provided by my office and information about what I'm doing on their behalf."
The new website includes:
WASHINGTON, D.C.— Today, Congressman Marc Veasey, TX-33, announced that MHMR of Tarrant County has received a $1 million grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to implement their System of Care program for transition age youth called, "Paving the Way: Successful Transitions to Adulthood."
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.