By Steve Taylor, Reporter<\/p>\n
MCALLEN, Texas – Three members of the Texas Legislative Progressive Caucus held a \u201cPeople\u2019s Hearing\u201d in McAllen on Sunday, October 11 at the historic Cine El Rey.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The group was on a fact-finding mission, to hear from voters about the issues they would like addressed in the next legislative session. TLPC has held similar hearings in other parts of Texas.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The three members to visit the Rio Grande Valley state Rep. Ana-Mar\u00eda Rodr\u00edguez Ramos, the group\u2019s Chair, state Rep. Christina Morales, and state Rep. Nicole Collier. The members heard from three panels. One focused on labor rights, one on the environment, and one on immigration.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Here is a video interview with the TLPC Chair,\u00a0Ana-Mar\u00eda Rodr\u00edguez Ramos:<\/p>\n
Here is a video recording of the event, including opening remarks from the three state Representatives, along with the three panel discussions:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Steve Taylor, Reporter MCALLEN, Texas – Three members of the Texas Legislative Progressive Caucus held a \u201cPeople\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-466746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}