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Campaign positions remain attributed. Official actions are shown separately, with narrow relationship labels and limits.

Campaign positions

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Eric Flores

His campaign says he will fight to cut VA wait times and widen access to care across the district, support fully funding veterans' benefits and disability claims, and champion mental health and suicide prevention for veterans.

Eric Flores for Congress

Evidence timeline

Where statements meet the record.

  1. official action

    Vicente Gonzalez: Matches stated record claim

    His campaign says he delivered federal funding to update local Veterans of Foreign Wars posts, so veterans and community members have safe spaces to gather. The explanatory statements for three years' appropriations laws each list a VFW post project with him as the House requester. For fiscal 2022, $304,454 for the Brooks County VFW, the Lopez Williams Post, from the Agriculture Department's rural community facilities account (page H1729). For fiscal 2023, $750,000 for a new building for Post 8788 (page S9538), and for fiscal 2024, $850,000 for a new building for Post 2410 (page S2158), both from HUD's Community Development Fund. The three laws are Public Laws 117-103, 117-328 and 118-42, and the three rows come to $1,904,454. Limit: Three posts in three years, each in an enacted statement with his name in the House requester column, which is where a member's community project funding is recorded. Two of the three paid for new buildings rather than updates to old ones. The statements allocate the money; whether USDA and HUD have paid it out was not checked. Two of the three tables are printed as page images, so those rows were read by eye.

    Vicente Gonzalez for Congress Congressional Record, U.S. Government Publishing Office Congress.gov Congressional Record, U.S. Government Publishing Office Congress.gov Congressional Record, U.S. Government Publishing Office Congress.gov

  2. official action

    Vicente Gonzalez: Matches stated direction

    His campaign says he is working to prevent the deportation of honorably discharged veterans. He has sponsored the Repatriate Our Patriots Act, on noncitizens released from the armed forces under honorable conditions, in four Congresses: H.R. 3429 in 2017, H.R. 1078 in 2019, H.R. 4382 in 2021 and H.R. 717 in 2023. Each was referred to committee and went no further. In December 2022 his amendment to the Veteran Service Recognition Act was agreed to 213-207 (Roll Call 502) and he voted Yea on the bill, which passed the House 220-208 (Roll Call 503) and ended in the Senate. Limit: Six years of sponsorship and one House-passed bill he amended are evidence of the work the claim describes. None became law. The claim is in the present tense, and Congress.gov records no bill of his on the subject in the current Congress.

    Vicente Gonzalez for Congress Congress.gov Congress.gov Congress.gov Congress.gov Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives Congress.gov

  3. official action

    Vicente Gonzalez: Matches stated record claim

    His campaign says he voted to pass the PACT Act so veterans exposed to toxic chemicals during service receive the care they deserve. He voted Yea on the House bill, H.R. 3967, on March 3, 2022 (Roll Call 57, 256-174), and Yea on S. 3373, the vehicle that became law, on July 13, 2022 (Roll Call 309, 342-88). It became Public Law 117-168 on August 10, 2022. Limit: He voted for it at both House votes, including the one on the bill that became law. He was one of 342 members voting for final passage and was not a sponsor.

    Vicente Gonzalez for Congress Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives Congress.gov Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives Congress.gov U.S. Government Publishing Office

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