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March 14, 2024

Rep. Gallego sends letter to FTC urging them to look into landlords, software over rent price fixing

by abc15.com staff

PHOENIX — Representative Ruben Gallego has sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission urging them to investigate alleged rental market price fixing by landlords and the software company RealPage. Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes announced in February that her office is suing software company RealPage along with multiple landlords over what her office calls an "illegal price-fixing conspiracy." There are nine major Phoenix and Tucson area landlords named as defendants in the suit, … Continue Reading


March 08, 2024

Rep. Ruben Gallego calls on federal agency to help with lowering gas prices

by David Baker

PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5)— Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego is asking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to work with state leaders to lower high gas prices. In a letter to EPA administrator Michael S. Regan, Gallego calls on the regulator to be more proactive in helping Arizona with gasoline issues by requesting waivers for the special blends earlier and aggressively monitoring the oil supply. Arizona uses a special blend of gasoline in the summer and winter to reduce air pollution, but it … Continue Reading


January 25, 2024

Representative Ruben Gallego hosts roundtable on cutting costs for Arizonans

by Christine Stanwood

PHOENIX — On Thursday morning, Eva Olivas, the executive director and CEO of Phoenix Revitalization Corporation, sat side by side with other Valley organization leaders at a roundtable hosted by Representative Ruben Gallego. Olivas says low-income communities are deeply affected by our housing crisis. “When HUD changed the income level last year, the next day, we were getting phone calls from people who said, ‘My owners raising my rent, it's like $250 more a month'," Olivas said. Gallego … Continue Reading


January 19, 2024

Rep. Ruben Gallego seeks to cut costs of living in Arizona

by Eduardo Morales

YUMA, Ariz. (KYMA, KECY) - U.S. Representative Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) is looking to cut costs for what he calls hard-working Americans. And one local is happy with what the representative is trying to do. “Yes it is very good because there are a lot of people with low income and they don’t have the sufficient means to live with large costs,” said local Yuma resident, Maria Leticia De La Cruz Rodriguez. Representative Gallego introduced the Lower Drug Costs for Families Act, which helps … Continue Reading


January 16, 2024

Arizona congressman targets pharmacy benefit managers in proposed bill

by Joe Dana

PHOENIX — Passing through the doorway of Melrose Pharmacy in uptown Phoenix feels like entering the 1950s. Its throwback decor harkens to another era. But the pharmacy’s owner said she faces a distinctly modern challenge: pharmacy benefit managers. “I have been frustrated with PBM’s since the day I opened,” said pharmacist Teresa Dickinson. “Every year I say it can’t get worse. And every year it gets worse.” “They are the mafia of health care” Pharmacy Benefit Managers are third-party … Continue Reading


January 09, 2024

Gallego Introduces Package of Bills to Lower Drug Prices for Hard Working Arizonans

by Celeste Gonzalez

WASHINGTON, DC (KVOA) - Today, Rep. Ruben Gallego introduced three pieces of legislation to hold pharmacy benefit managers, otherwise known as PBMs, accountable for their role in historically inflating drug prices for Arizona consumers. “For too long, PBMs have price gouged hardworking Arizona families and seniors by rigging the system to line their pockets,” said Gallego. “These bills will crack down on unfair pricing gimmicks, help lower prescription drug prices at the pharmacy counter, and … Continue Reading


January 05, 2024

Social Security withholding payments to Arizona woman

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December 13, 2023

Arizona's Democratic congressmen push for more federal energy payment assistance

by Alisa Reznick

Lawmakers are asking Congressional leaders to ramp up a federal program that helps low-income families with energy costs. The request comes from 115 U.S. representatives — including Arizona Democrats Ruben Gallego, Raúl Grijalva and Greg Stanton. They’re asking for $1.6 billion to go toward the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program — which is funded by the Department of Health and Human Services. The lawmakers say the program is a lifeline for families having to choose between staying … Continue Reading


December 11, 2023

Farmers, officials talk about impacts of long border wait times (Yuma Sun)

by Mara Knaub

Local leaders talked about the long lines at the border and how they are affecting their communities at a roundtable hosted by Rep. Ruben Gallego on Friday. Officials and farmers also expressed concerns that the San Luis Port of Entry could be closed, putting a damper on local commerce and tourism, and that other port closures will likely make the already long wait times to cross into Mexico and the U.S. longer, threatening the livelihood and health of farm workers who cross the border daily … Continue Reading


December 08, 2023

WATCH: Organized retail theft on the minds of Arizona law enforcement and lawmakers

by Ford Hatchett

PHOENIX — U.S. Representative Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) and Arizona retailers hosted a news conference touting support for bipartisan federal legislation cracking down on organized retail thieves. Also on Friday, Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes announced her office’s Organized Retail Crime team arrested eight people accused of stealing and “cloning” thousands of gift cards from retailers and draining the money. Watch the full story in the video … Continue Reading


December 01, 2023

Arizona opinion: Arizona can’t afford a new 'tomato tax'

by Rep. Ruben Gallego

Since the pandemic, inflation has hit families across Arizona. People are feeling an unyielding squeeze on gas, groceries, childcare, and more, and I feel it too. That’s why in Congress, I’m fighting to lower prices and protect pocketbooks — whether on prescription drugs or at the gas pump — for everyday Arizonans. But despite the progress we’ve seen, grocery prices are at risk of rising, and tens of thousands of Arizona jobs are at risk of being eliminated because of a single produce item: … Continue Reading


November 19, 2023

Biden agency diverting millions in border funds to blue cities says border is not its 'mission space': emails

by Thomas Catenacci , Houston Keene

EXCLUSIVE: The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which oversees federal funding for services related to noncitizen migrant arrivals in the U.S., said the border isn't part of its "mission space," according to emails obtained by Fox News Digital. FEMA, which is a Department of Homeland Security subagency tasked with overseeing federal disaster assistance programs, made the statement in an email exchange with Democrat Arizona Rep. Ruben Gallego's staff, which invited agency officials … Continue Reading


November 16, 2023

Latinos, los más beneficiados con la Ley de Reducción de la Inflación, según reporte

by Javier Arce

Los latinos en Arizona y en todo el país han tenido más dificultades para obtener la atención médica que merecen y necesitan debido al aumento de los costos y las barreras de acceso a la atención. Pero con la llegada de la Ley de Reducción de la Inflación (IRA por sus siglas en inglés) esas barreras se han ido derribando. Así lo afirmaron el Representante por Arizona Rubén Gallego y el Representante por Texas Joaquín Castro, quienes dieron a conocer los resultados del reporte “Reducir los … Continue Reading


November 14, 2023

Rep. Ruben Gallego wants to fix humanitarian funding at the border. Here's his plan

by José Ignacio Castañeda Perez

U.S. Rep. Ruben Gallego ... unveiled a plan on Monday to reform the program that funds Arizona nonprofits and local governments in their humanitarian response to arriving migrants.  The proposal calls for a number of reforms to the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s new Shelter and Services Program. The federal program was created to help reimburse nonprofits and local governments for their efforts to help migrants released from the Department of Homeland Security custody.  The program … Continue Reading


November 14, 2023

Rubén Gallego presenta plan para reparar la financiación humanitaria en la frontera

by José Ignacio Castañeda Perez

El representante federal Rubén Gallego ... dio a conocer el lunes un plan para reformar el programa que provee financiación a organizaciones sin fines de lucro y a gobiernos locales de Arizona a medida que llegan migrantes a la frontera de Estados Unidos con México. La propuesta exige una serie de reformas al nuevo Programa de Servicios y Refugio (SSP por sus siglas en inglés) de la Agencia Federal para el Manejo de Emergencias (FEMA por sus siglas en inglés). Este programa federal fue creado … Continue Reading


November 02, 2023

A bipartisan House duo is concerned the Biden administration could let Iran’s nuclear program off the hook

by Nicholas Wu

Iran’s efforts to advance its nuclear program are alarming Reps. Ruben Gallego and Jim Banks, who are warning Secretary of State Antony Blinken it could “represent a serious U.S. policy failure.” “The lack of accountability from this administration on Iran’s nuclear program has emboldened the regime to escalate its other destabilizing activities, including its growing relationships with Russia and China and the use of proxy terrorist forces around the world,” the two lawmakers write in a … Continue Reading


November 01, 2023

Reps. Gallego and McCaul ask for more funds for first responders in border communities

by Mallory Wilson

Two border-state lawmakers from opposing parties have penned a letter to the head of the House Appropriations Committee in a bipartisan effort to get more money for first responders in communities along the southern border. Reps. Ruben Gallego, Arizona Democrat, and Michael McCaul, Texas Republican, sent a letter to committee Chairwoman Kay Granger, Texas Republican, and ranking member Rosa DeLauro, Connecticut Democrat, on Tuesday asking for funding for first responders for  the 2024 budget … Continue Reading


November 01, 2023

Lawmakers seek information from Biden administration on Iran oil exports to China

by Reese Gorman

EXCLUSIVE — Reps. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) and Don Bacon (R-NE) sent a bipartisan letter to two Cabinet secretaries raising concerns about Iran’s export of oil to China and asking for information about the administration’s plan to curb it. The letter was sent to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, and in the wake of Hamas’s invasion of Israel, the two members of Congress raised concerns about Iran and its oil export to China and urged the administration to “use … Continue Reading


October 20, 2023

Billions of dollars for the border included in President's funding plan for Israel and Ukraine

by Mark Phillips

U.S. Customs and Border Protection averages 8,000 apprehensions a day along the border with Mexico. Not all the migrants surrender at the border. In Cochise County, high-speed chases involving human smugglers are commonplace. On its Facebook page, the Cochise County Sheriff's Office showed an SUV it stopped recently after a chase that reached speeds of 124 miles per hour. In the front seat were a 15-year-old and 14-year-old from Phoenix. They were arrested along with the migrants they were … Continue Reading


October 13, 2023

Congressmen seek funding to protect American Jewish communities from terrorist attacks

by Greg Wehner

Members of Congress called for increased funding to help nonprofit American Jewish communities and places of worship increase security on Wednesday amid heightened tensions between Israel and Hamas, as well as a rise in antisemitism around the world and U.S. In a bipartisan proposal, Reps. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz, and Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., sent a letter to the House Appropriations Committee to include additional funding for FEMA’s Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP), to protect these … Continue Reading

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