Press Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressmen Roger Williams (R-TX-25) and Peter Welch (D-VT-At large) today introduced the Save Our Stages Act, to provide grants from the Small Business Administration to independent music venues impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Sens. John Cornyn (R-TX) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) introduced the Senate companion version of the legislation.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Roger Williams (R-TX-25) today released the following statement after voting against the Democrats' partisan State, Foreign Operations, Rural Development, Interior, Environment, Military Construction, and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act, 2021 (H.R. 7608):
AUSTIN, TX – Congressman Roger Williams (R-TX-25) today applauded Tesla's announcement of the construction of their new Gigafactory in Travis County. The $1.1 billion assembly plant will employ 5,000 people and is expected to generate over $1 billion in capital investment.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Roger Williams (R-TX-25) today sent a letter to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy requesting the inclusion of funding for rural broadband deployment to underserved communities in the next COVID-19 relief package.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Roger Williams (R-TX-25), a representative of Fort Hood, today released the following statement after voting in favor of the William Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2021:
AUSTIN, TX – Congressman Roger Williams (R-TX-25) today announced a $7.8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to Dell Seton Medical Center at the University of Texas at Austin.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Roger Williams (R-TX-25) and Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX-30) today introduced the MFAR Transparency Act to delay the implementation of the Medicaid Fiscal Accountability Rule (MFAR) and direct the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) to conduct a study on the financial impacts on each state.
AUSTIN, TX – Congressman Roger Williams (R-TX-25) today applauded the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) announcement of an additional $410 million award for Texas health care providers impacted by COVID-19. The funds are provided under the CARES Act and the Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act, which allocated $175 billion in relief to hospitals and other healthcare providers, including those disproportionately impacted by this pandemic.
KILLEEN, TX – Congressman Roger Williams (R-TX-25), a representative of Fort Hood and the Killeen Independent School District, today sent a bipartisan letter with Congressman Mike Levin (D-CA-49) to the House Appropriations Committee urging that financial relief for federally impacted school districts be included in future COVID-19 legislation.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Roger Williams (R-TX-25), a congressional representative of Fort Hood, today released the following statement after officials announced the search for PFC Vanessa Guillen had concluded with the positive identification of her remains: