Henry Cuellar for Congress | Proven Leadership for Texas

A good job for everyone with a living wage and decent benefits - and the opportunity for everyone to share in the gains and profits from productivity - is the measure of a strong economy. In a slow growth economy - one like the one we are in now - layoffs are spreading, unemployment is rising, wages are losing value, families are struggling to maintain health care benefits, deficits have returned and the Social Security Trust Fund is being used for other programs. In less than two years we have gone from a full employment economy to one of slow growth, rising unemployment and deficits projected for years.

• I will work for an economic stimulus program that helps working families in distress, tying any corporate tax cuts to new investments or new jobs here at home, and jump-starts our economy with public investment.
• I will work for a budget that makes the investments vital to our security and our growth - education, healthcare, Social Security, infrastructure - while deferring additional tax breaks for the wealthy and shutting down foreign tax havens for companies.
• And, I will work to support and enforce regulatory initiatives to enforce corporate accountability to safeguard our pensions.

Henry Cuellar’s advocacy for helping to create jobs economic growth has been recognized by the Texas Chamber of Commerce, the Texas Association of Colleges and Technical Educators, the Laredo Chamber of Commerce, the Texas Career Institute, the City of Laredo and Cigarroa High School Arts Tech Program, the Laredo Association of Human Resource Management, the Texas A&M International 5th Annual Conference Western Universities, the Laredo Business and Professional Women’s Association, the Texas U.S. Customs Brokers Association, the Free Enterprise Public Action Committee and Free Market Committee, the Laredo Development Foundation, the Texas Association of Mexican American Chamber of Commerce (TAMACC), the Texas Economic Development Commission, and the Laredo Mexican American Chamber of Commerce.