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Cody Edwards thought he had landed his dream job. The Irving man was so excited to move to Port Aransas on New Year's Eve with his pregnant wife to start a new job at the Padre Island National Seashore, also known as PINS, on Jan. 8.
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He reached out to members of Congress, including the office of U.S. Rep. Marc Veasey, D-Fort Worth, which contacted several people, especially a National Park Service legislative liaison who helped Edwards regain his job as a visitor use assistant at PINS.
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WASHINGTON — When Christin Davis, an acting instructor in Austin, decided to contact her senators for the first time, she was excited and nervous. She wrote out a script for her message, opposing President Donald Trump's executive order banning Syrian refugees, on a note card so she wouldn't make any mistakes.
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Rep. Brendan Boyle thinks all the Republicans who are telling him privately that the new White House is "absolutely crazy, and that [Donald] Trump doesn't know what he's doing" should be ashamed of themselves for not saying it publicly.
Rep. Marc Veasey says "there's high-profile Republicans that you talk to on the House floor, in committee, and if you even bring up the president's name, they just roll their eyes."
On Friday evening, President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning people from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States and halting the country's acceptance of refugees.
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Most of Texas's Democratic representatives in congress also opposed the ban, including Henry Cuellar, Lloyd Doggett, Al Green, Gene Green, Sheila Jackson Lee, Bernice Johnson, Beto O'Rourke, Marc Veasey, Filemon Vela, and Joaquin Castro.
Washington, D.C. - Congressman Marc Veasey, TX-33, released the following statement after President Trump announced Tenth Circuit Judge Neil Gorsuch as his Supreme Court nominee to serve as the next Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court:
The positive reaction from Texas Republicans to the nomination of Neil Gorsuch, a 49-year-old member of a Denver-based appeals court, was swift and strong.
NBC 5 has been reaching out to your lawmakers regarding President Donald Trump's Executive Action on refugees. We have asked for comments from the North Texas Delegation in...
Thirteen people detained at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport under an executive order signed Friday by President Donald Trump had all been released by Sunday evening. It appears that a...
WASHINGTON – Since Saturday evening, chants of "let them go," "free their grandma" and "refugees are welcome here" have loudly echoed down the hallways of Terminal D at DFW International Airport and other major airports around the country.
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"President Trump's latest executive action is already causing mass confusion for international airports nationwide," Fort Worth Rep. Marc Veasey added in a statement, noting that a ban on refugees was "wholly un-American."
WASHINGTON — A lone Republican, U.S. Rep. Will Hurd of Helotes, joined a handful of the Texas delegation's Democrats in challenging President Donald Trump's executive order banning travel from seven predominantly Muslim countries.
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U.S. Rep. Marc Veasey of Fort Worth announced on Twitter he was at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, one of the country's largest airports, assisting the detained.