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Congressman Greg Casar speaks at the launch of the Congressional Caucus on Global Migration
June 27, 2024

WASHINGTON – Today, Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez (IL-03), the Vice Ranking Member of the Homeland Security Committee, Congressman Greg Casar (TX-35), Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove (CA-37), and 21 members of Congress launched a new congressional caucus which aims to find effective, long-term solutions to humanely address irregular and forced migration around the world.

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Congressman Greg Casar (D-Texas) holds up two children’s backpacks in front of the House Ag Committee room with Congressman Jim McGovern (D-Mass.). At the Seaboard Triumph facility in Sioux City, Iowa, federal investigators witnessed children “carrying glittered school backpacks” before starting their graveyard shift to clean kill-floor equipment. (Photo courtesy Office of Congressman Greg Casar)
June 26, 2024

WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Greg Casar (D-Texas) releases the following statement after sitting in on the House Agriculture Committee Republicans’ closed-door, corporate-backed child labor roundtable with meat packing industry associates.

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Congressman Casar and Assistant Secretary of Labor Doug Parker with Texas workers
June 21, 2024

AUSTIN, Texas – On Thursday, Congressman Greg Casar (D-Texas) and Doug Parker, Assistant Secretary of Labor for the Occupational Safety and Health Administrati

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Photo by the Austin Chronicle
June 20, 2024

Austin and Washington, D.C., share many things in common. They both have stellar drag entertainers and queer nightlife, but they’re also home to the worst drag shows I’ve ever seen: The Texas Legislature and the Republican-led Congress. In the halls of power, right-wingers put on their worst government-style drag, and attack queer and trans Americans in an attempt to distract people from the rest of their agenda: tax breaks for billionaires, gutting the civil rights and power of working people, and undermining our very democracy. 

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Letter: On World Refugee Day, Nearly 70 Members of Congress Urge the Administration to Consider Certain Palestinians Fleeing Gaza for Refugee Status
June 20, 2024

WASHINGTON – Today, on World Refugee Day, U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and U.S.

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Congressman Greg Casar holds a big check with San Marcos and Texas State University leaders.
June 18, 2024

SAN MARCOS, Texas – Today, Congressman Greg Casar (D-Texas) joined Texas State University and San Marcos community leaders to present a $500,000 check for Meadows Center research on climate change and water contamination.

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Portrait of Congressman Greg Casar in Austin, TX
June 18, 2024

WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Greg Casar (D-Texas) released the following statement in response to President Joe Biden’s anticipated announcement

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Congressman Greg Casar speaks at the Asylum is a Right press conference
June 5, 2024

Casar confronts what few in Washington will talk about: How US policies contribute to the poverty and violence that push migrants to journey to our borders