Representative Ciro Rodriguez News

By Congressman Ciro D. Rodriguez November 10, 2009 Veterans Day is an opportunity for all of us to stop and think about this great nation we live in.

A key research and development tax credit that was originally enacted in the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 is set to expire soon, and that is a big concern for San Antonio, according to a local Congressman.

Local members of Congress split along party lines in the late Saturday vote on health care reform, with Republican Lamar Smith voting no, and Democrats Ciro Rodriguez, Henry Cuellar, and Charles Gonzalez voting yes, as the bill squeaked by 220-to-215, 1200 WOAI news reports.

Mike Kueber, a retired USAA regulatory attorney, on Tuesday announced that he'll run in the Republican primary for the 23rd Congressional District seat currently held by Rep.

A San Antonio Air Force veteran, Vic Luebker, said Tuesday he is seeking the Libertarian Party nomination for the 23rd congressional district seat currently held by Rep.

FRA strongly supports "The Education Assistance to Realign New Eligibilities for Dependents Act" that expands the number of veterans who can transfer educational benefits to their dependent family members.

ALPINE The Rio Grande Research Center at the School of Arts & Sciences at Sul Ross State University has been awarded $1.434 million by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to fund biophysical research in the Rio Grande Basin.

President Obama signed a law naming El Paso's new federal courthouse in honor of the late El Paso judge and prominent civil rights leader Albert Armendariz Sr.

A provision to build an additional 300 miles of pedestrian fence along the U.S.-Mexico border has been stripped out of a $42.8 billion spending bill for the Department of Homeland Security.

Every election cycle, Rep. Chet Edwards, a moderate Democrat from Waco, draws a Republican challenger.

A $3 million earmark for improvements on the San Antonio River south of downtown was included in spending legislation by a House-Senate conference committee.

Metropolitan Planning Organization Chairman and Bexar County Commissioner Tommy Adkisson officially proposed a non-toll road plan Monday for U.S. 281 north of Loop 1604.

Just two months after the Post-9/11 GI Bill officially launched, House lawmakers are considering a number of changes to the program, including allowing military retirees to transfer benefits to spouses or children.

Getting kids to read early, as soon as they can hold a book, is one way to help them achieve greater success in life.

The head of a San Antonio-based veterans' advocacy group has a question for President Obama about healthcare spending.

VIA Metropolitan Transit will receive $5 million in stimulus funding to replace conventional diesel buses with an initial fleet of composite-body electric transit buses.

Judges, lawyers and veterans urged lawmakers on Wednesday to pass legislation that would encourage states to set up special courts and give judges more latitude in sentencing veterans who return from wars only to run afoul of the law.

When it comes to health care reform, Homero Berain is a divided man. Berain and his wife have no insurance.

A federal grant announced in Crystal City on Saturday will help tell the story of one of the most untold aspects of World War Two in Texas--the huge Crystal City Internment Camp, where tens of thousands of people of German, Italian, Hispanic, and mainly of Japanese ancestry, many of them U.S. citizens, spent the war, 1200 WOAI news reports.

The largest U.S. Latino civil rights organization announced a nationwide effort in San Antonio Wednesday to push for health care-reform legislation this year that includes a government-run health insurance plan.