July 3 - I must admit I don't often take the time to respond to postings online, particularly those I know to be false. But on this occasion I have to make an exception.

June 25 - Every driver in South Texas is feeling the pinch at the pump these days. Every week since the Democrats took over control of the Congress in Washington after the '06 election seems to see gasoline prices reaching uncomfortably higher and record levels. A gallon of gas was $ 2.19 a gallon in October of 2006. Today, thanks to obstructionist Democrats, the price is much higher-and they promised to lower the price of gas!

June 19 - The border wall, which has already done tremendous damage to the environment of our borderlands, will in coming weeks plug a canyon south of San Diego. 

On December 17, at 9:30 a.m., I was approaching the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge to return to the U.S. after spending a few days in Reynosa as a guest of the municipal government.

June 11 - If you ask Texans what they want, be prepared to hear the answer. From February to March of this year, officials at the Texas Department of Transportation spanned the state, asking Texans to give us their input on the proposed I-69/Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC).

May 29 - Dave Ramsey, host of a consumer finance show on Fox News Network this week called pay-day lenders “parasites”, and said that they “oppress the poor.” He was referring to recent news story where Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel announced that he is sending letters to “payday lending” businesses operating in Arkansas, asking them to stop the practice immediately since they prey of the poor and charge interest in amounts that vastly exceed the usury limit imposed by the Constitution of the State of Arkansas.

May 22 - McAllen business leader Monica Weisberg-Stewart contrasted the fence in Israel with the proposed border wall in Texas during a speech at the Greater Southwest Region of Hadassah Convention in McAllen recently. 

May 19 - The comments made by Zack Taylor, a spokesman for the National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers, at a recent congressional hearing in Brownsville show he is ill informed and out of touch with reality.

May 12 - In the past two weeks, a pair of news stories in South Texas have served as a reminder to all of us of the exposure we have to identity theft. These two stories, however, are not tales of consumers being careless with their personal data. Rather, these stories put business owners on notice as to their responsibilities in keeping consumer data safe and secure.

May 3 - My name is Betty Pérez. I am an active member of the coalition, No Border Wall. Thank you Chairman Grijalva and Chairwoman Bordallo for organizing this field hearing, and thank you all for actually coming down to the border to listen to what our community has to say about the border wall.

April 30 - This week, I join many of my colleagues in bringing focus to expanding health coverage for our nation’s children. During “Cover the Uninsured” week, I reaffirm my commitment to coming to the aid of the nearly 9 million American children without health insurance.