Joe Baca Quotes
Cinco de Mayo has come to represent a celebration of the contributions that Mexican Americans and all Hispanics have made to America.
In fact, allowing immigrants to have licenses actually improves homeland security by allowing our government to track who is in our borders.
Products made in China are cheap through the exploitation of the workforce. Every time we shop, we are driving the nail further into the coffin of American manufacturing jobs.
We cannot neglect the unemployed, underemployed and dislocated workers of America who need ample and widespread funding for federal job training services.
Head Start's ability to improve the educational skills and opportunities of Latino children will be an important component of America's future success.
Our immigration system is a broken system that needs to be fixed. We need reform that provides hardworking people of good character with a real path towards citizenship.
Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives.
Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.
The Postal Service's unmatched ability to reach every household and business in America six days a week is a vital part of the nation's infrastructure.
Every year thousands of Americans mistakenly refer to Cinco de Mayo as Mexico's Independence Day.
Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.
The Postal Service delivers mail six days a week to nearly 140 million addresses. Every year this number increases by 2 million.
The goal of the Head Start program is to give at-risk children all across our Nation a fair chance at succeeding in the educational system.
Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.
Head Start is especially important to Latino children. Latino children make up more than one-third, 34 percent, of all those eligible for the program.
As costly as it was in the lives of our men and women in uniform, in military assets, and in esteem and pride, Pearl Harbor was a watershed moment for America.
We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.
As a proud Catholic, I know the impact that faith-based education can have in our society and have witnessed it first hand in my district.
Caring for our children and making sure they do not get addicted to drugs is all of our responsibility.
The Postal Service needs tools to modernize and compete. That is why today I am a cosponsor of H.R. 22, the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act.
The Republican majority will stop at nothing to prevent access to the legal system for those who are hurt.
It is crucial that members of Congress cast votes that are supportive of the values upon which our nation was founded: equality, freedom, and opportunity for all people.
The Republicans would like to take us back to a darker time, when corporations ruled and the underserved had no rights.
Instead of creating new jobs, Republicans gave tax cuts to companies that send jobs overseas.
American families be warned, if the White House doesn't send your jobs overseas, they'll send your kids.
Many of us are alarmed at the skyrocketing cost of medical care, including patients, who are the consumers. However, medical malpractice is not the reason for these increasing costs.