Ruben Hinojosa
Ruben Hinojosa
Rubén E. Hinojosais the retiring U.S. Representative for Texas's 15th congressional district, serving since 1997. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district stretches from Seguin, to McAllen on the Mexican border. Much of the region is rural although Hidalgo County is part of the third fastest-growing metropolitan statistical area in the country. Hinojosa serves on the House Financial Services and Education committees...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth20 August 1940
CountryUnited States of America
Closing the gap for women entrepreneurs should be a priority for the federal government - and yet the Small Business Administration has failed in their promise to women business owners.
Today's population of adolescents and young adults is the largest in our nation's history.
There has been a growing consensus across the country - from statehouses to the White House and the halls of Congress - that we need to take dramatic steps to improve our secondary schools.
Right now, America's middle class is struggling to meet their basic needs.
America cannot turn its back on the economic future and women-owned businesses are part of that future.
Farms and ranches contend with much more than quarterly reports and profit margins - the weather can wreak havoc on their quality of life and economic viability. When natural disasters strike, we must do all we can to assist the backbone of our economy.
We need to work together, on a bipartisan basis, to create new jobs, increase job training, enact real and substantive middle class tax relief, and reward companies that create jobs at home.
Currently, only 70 percent of our high school students earn diplomas with their peers, and less than one-third of our high school students graduate prepared for success in a four-year college.
We must not allow this generation to produce record numbers for the juvenile justice, runaway and homeless youth, or foster care systems.
The privatization plan weakens Social Security and threatens our economic security by creating trillions of dollars in new debt.
At their core, Americans all want the same basic things: a quality education for their children, a good job so they can provide for their families, healthcare and affordable prescription drugs, security during retirement, a strongly equipped military and national security.
A person's credit report is one of the most important tools consumers can use to maintain their financial security and credit rating, but for so long many did not know how to obtain one, or what to do with the information it provided.