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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Marc Veasey (TX-33) will present Poly U.S. history teacher and "A Teach for America" corps member, Graham Sharpe, with the 2013 Humanities Texas Award for Outstanding Early-Career. Out of hundreds of nominations from across the Lone Star state, Mr. Sharpe was one of three teachers selected for the prestigious honor.
FORT WORTH, TX-El miércoles, 6 de noviembre, Congresista Marc Veasey (TX-33) empieza su gira orientada al cuidado de salud a los centros de salud en las comunidades del Metroplex para escuchar a los doctores, voluntarios y pacientes hablar sobre cuestiones de salud que impacta a los constituyentes en el distrito.
FORT WORTH, TX – On Wednesday, November 6, Congressman Marc Veasey (TX-33) will kick off a day of healthcare-focused visits to Metroplex-area community health centers to hear from physicians, patients and volunteers on health issues impacting constituents.
Dallas, TX – Rep. Marc Veasey, TX-33, visited the North Texas Food Bank (NTFB) on Monday, November 4 to tour the facility and to discuss hunger and the potential impacts of food assistance programs due to recent food-aid funding cuts.
Earlier this month, SNAP, or the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, was cut by 5 percent after the 2009 Recovery Act's temporary increase in benefits expired leaving participants with just $1.40 to spend per meal. According to the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, 3.5 million Texas residents receive SNAP benefits.
Rep. Marc Veasey (TX-33) released the following statement, today, in response to Texas' restrictive voter ID law which stopped
Congressman Marc Veasey (TX-33) hosted a Senior Issues Forum in Fort Worth on Nov. 1, 2013 to address topics such as government benefits, fitness for seniors, and fraud prevention. Senior Citizens Services of Tarrant County and other state and federal agencies joined the Congressman in Fort Worth for this event, including the: Texas AgriLife Extension, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, the Social Security Administration and the United States Postal Inspection Service.
FORT WORTH, TX – Today, Congressman Marc Veasey (TX-33) will host a Senior Issues Forum from 8:30 A.M.-12:00 P.M. at the Cobblestone Manor Apartments Club House, located at 8201 Sartain Drive in Fort Worth. They will address topics such as government benefits, fitness for seniors, and fraud prevention.
Texas Democrats are railing against automatic reductions in food stamps triggered by expiration of 2009 Recovery Act funds.
The stimulus funds ran out at midnight last night. The average family of four receiving benefits will see their food aid drop by $36 a month because of the reduction, according to the Department of Agriculture.
Those cuts continue to be controversial as a Congressional conference committee negotiates the long-delayed farm bill.
Today, billions of dollars of cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) will go into effect. They are the result of the expiration of a temporary increase in funding for SNAP that went into effect as part of the stimulus package in 2009. The expanded SNAP budget was set to automatically expire on November 1. Thanks to Congressional inaction, the cuts went into effect and SNAP will lose $5 billion over the next year.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – As lawmakers from both parties begin to negotiate a long-term budget agreement, 178 Democrats in the House are calling on Speaker Boehner and the Republican leadership to publicly declare that they will not use the threat of another government shutdown or default on U.S. debt as a political tactic in the budget talks. The first public meeting of the 29-member bipartisan House-Senate Budget Conference Committee was held on Wednesday, October 30th.