一般业务 & 经济发展
- Supports providing a tax credit for office buildings over 25 years old to convert to another use modeled after historic tax credits.
- 支持一项立法解决方案,授权从圣安东尼奥(美国军城)到里根国家机场(DCA)的直飞航班。.
- 支持SAT机场航站楼扩建.
- Supports actions to address supply chain constraints and encourages the free flow of goods and 服务s with U.S. 贸易伙伴.
航空航天
- 支持美国联邦航空局重新授权法案的通过,为德克萨斯州先进空中交通行业的发展提供额外支持,并为支持该行业的基础设施的测试和实施提供激励.
- 支持授权和拨款额外的资金,以提高国防部(DoD)的军事准备就绪率,并减少我们军队中战术航空的维护积压.
- 支持增加航空劳动力发展资金和补助项目的努力.
- Supports legislation that increases funding to aerospace 教育 programs in pre-K through 12 and post-secondary institutions.
宽带
- Encourages Public and Private Partnerships between broadband providers and local organizations for the best product in construction, 服务, 升级, 和安全.
- Encourages utilization of federally funded affordability programs in areas where cost concerns are high.
- 支持社区的数字扫盲和在线安全规划.
- 支持FCC建立超过100兆/秒下载和20兆/秒上传的宽带速度基线定义的愿景.
- 支持“可负担网络连接计划”(ACP)的资助和延续。, facilitating internet access by alleviating the cost of internet 服务 plans for qualifying households for at home internet 服务.
- 支持减少宽带基础设施部署障碍的立法,包括简化许可程序和机构间协调.
- Incentivizing investment to expand net工作 access and removing barriers to efficient broadband deployment projects.
- 通过让美国人更能负担得起互联网服务来促进网络扩张.
网络安全
- Supports programs to help small businesses prepare for and combat cybersecurity threats and build resilience.
- 支持增加网络安全教育经费, 劳动力培训, 教育, 和再培训.
- Supports the creation of inter-departmental guidelines for cybersecurity products and 服务s to be exported to southern partners, 支持他们确保关键基础设施和金融服务安全的努力.
- Supports FBI and CISA Cyber Incident Response Support and Investigation Reform of incidents.
- 支持立法规范隐私, 合规, 供应链验证, 以及各州的认证要求.
教育 & 员工发展
- 支持努力增加对特殊教育的资助,以实现国会为实施《cq9跳高高试玩》支付40%费用的意图.
- 支持为“从军队到教师”项目提供恢复资金.
- 通过以下方式支持维护和加强联邦佩尔助学金计划:
- 将资格扩展到短期/劳动力培训项目.
- 增加年度最大金额.
- 扩大DACA学生的资格.
- 将终身资格增加到14个学期.
- 支持实施策略, 规则, 允许投资于成功的、由雇主主导的劳动力发展项目的法规,比如联邦政府对提供实习机会的企业的奖励, 学徒制, and OJT opportunities; Perkins Career & Technical 教育; Dual credit; Adult 教育 and training including GED/HSE programs; Veterans training; and Educator development and training.
- 学术保健中心: 通过向国立卫生研究院(NIH)提供全额拨款,支持增加学术卫生中心的25财年资金。, 卫生资源和服务管理局, 美国国防部(DoD), 疾病控制中心(CDC), 以及相关机构.
- 增加医学学术研究和发展的资助机会, 员工发展, 并通过投资联邦拨款机会直接提供服务, along with potential funding through Congressionally Directed Spending/Community Project Funding, will continue to provide vital resources for our communities throughout San Antonio and the South Texas border region.”
能源 & 可持续性
- 支持资源中性的碳减排建议, 整体经济, 让圣安东尼奥能够灵活地投资和过渡到低排放和无排放的技术,以符合我们社区的优先事项和气候行动 & 适应计划.
- 支持为低收入家庭援助计划(LIHEAP)等项目提供额外的联邦资金,因为它为无法支付能源账单的圣安东尼奥社区成员提供了宝贵的支持和经济援助.
- Supports legislation to prevent unreasonable and exorbitant natural gas price increases during a declared natural disaster, thereby protecting customers from unnecessary financial hardship as experienced during Winter Storm Uri.
- 支持联邦资金的分配, 特别是通过IRA和IIJA获得的机会, 以及鼓励研究的拨款项目, 示范, 部署能够促进创新的不断发展的技术, 基础设施发展, 并以具有成本效益的方式协助贝尔县减少净排放量.
- Supports all actions to address supply chain constraints and encourage the free flow of goods and 服务s with U.S. 贸易伙伴.
- 支持在联邦能源税政策中保留对公共权力的直接支付选项,并改变税收政策以恢复公共权力提前偿还现有债务的能力.
- 支持向能源部拨款10亿美元,用于实施《cq9跳高高试玩》,以解决配电变压器短缺问题.
医疗保健 & 生物科学:
- 支持为低收入家庭援助计划(LIHEAP)等项目提供额外的联邦资金,因为它为无法支付能源账单的圣安东尼奥社区成员提供了宝贵的支持和经济援助.
- Encourages the Department of 能源 to withdraw proposed energy efficiency standards for distribution transformers. 电力部门继续面临配电变压器的供应限制,影响经济发展,威胁电网的可靠性. DOE's proposed rule would make these constraints worse even while the pace of electrification of the economy accelerates. DOE should withdraw this rule and reassess how best to address current supply chain constraints.
- Supports reforms to federal laws that currently slow the process of obtaining necessary permits for critical infrastructure. Reforms should streamline the permitting process without compromising the integrity of environmental reviews.
- Supports the passage of the Farm Bill as the nation’s largest investment in voluntary conservation, 恢复, 农业和私有土地的管理, -提供食物, 纤维, 干净的水 & 为国家提供空气.
- 支持继续使用液体燃料进行运输.
- 反对武断的截止日期, 比如无法实现的净零排放目标, 也没有能证明其有效性的数据支持. 武断的最后期限扼杀了创新,增加了消费者的成本.
- Supports ALL vehicles on Texas roads contributing to the creation and maintenance of our roads and highways. Road use taxes for EV drivers must be collected annually since they circumvent taxes paid at the gas pump for roads and schools.
- Supports availability of low carbon incentives for business investments in environmentally friendly technologies or products.
住房
- Supports programs targeted at expanding housing production of affordable housing for low- and middle-income households. Including historic tax credits and the Affordable 住房 Credit Improvement Act (AHCIA) of 2023.
- 支持增加资金和扩大住房 & community development programs including the Home Investment Partnership Program (HOME), 社区发展整笔补助金, 老年人保障性住房计划, 为残疾人士提供支持性住房, 应急方案补助金(ESG), 住房抵用券, 以及无家可归者援助项目.
- Supports programs and incentives to encourage the production of single-family homes and incentivize homeownership.
- 支持以经济适用房的生产和保护为重点的项目和政策,包括消除障碍和缓解包括高利率在内的通货膨胀因素, 不断上升的保险成本和监管要求.
国际贸易
- 支持促进贸易增长的立法, 合作伙伴关系, 基础设施投资以缩短过境等待时间, 实施美墨加贸易协定, 以及NAD银行的扩张.
- 支持增加在岸业务的努力, 重新支撑, 制造工厂的近岸化, 中心, 总部迁至美国, 特别是德州.
制造业
- Supports changes to the tax code to encourage innovation and protect research and development investments.
- Supports making permanent the incentive of a 100% deduction for the purchase of equipment and machinery in the tax year purchased.
- Support efforts by Congress to help businesses finance their growth and reverse stricter limitations on interest deductibility.
军事
- 支持弹性(基础设施)的进步, 气候, 通过与社区合作,继续投资于有利于社区和军事任务的项目,例如:地方国防社区合作办公室(OLDCC)军事设施恢复能力审查(MIRR)赠款, 国防社区基础设施计划(DCIP), 国防制造社区支持计划(DMCSP).
- 通过努力应对包括以下在内的独特挑战,支持加强为军人及其家属的复原力所做的努力:
- 确保基地住房安全、优质.
- 提倡适当的住房补助, such as 100% coverage of housing expenses through the Basic Allowance for 住房 (BAH).
- 加强退伍军人管理局住房贷款计划.
- 协助解决现役军人的住房问题,包括:
- 恢复100% BAH.
- 改革BAH计算流程.
- 在基地外的社区建造更多的住房.
- 支持国会的努力, 退伍军人事务部, 以及国防部减少军人和退伍军人自杀.
- 支持加强倡导社区主导的倡议,以提高军人配偶的就业,促进军人社区的努力,确保军人家庭有机会进入高质量的学校, 照顾孩子, 配偶就业, 特殊需求项目.
- Supports policies that facilitate long-term and meaningful employment for military spouses.
- 支持扩大工作占用税收抵免,包括军人配偶.
- Continue advocacy around 照顾孩子 solutions for military 服务 members and families to include:
- 全额资助学费援助计划
- 解决人员配备和能力挑战
- In-depth study of the impact of 照顾孩子 challenges on recruiting, readiness, and retention.
- Supports fully funding Impact Aid to offset the costs incurred by districts educating large numbers of military children.
- 支持在阿拉莫地区举办未来的国防部战士运动会,并与陆军领导层合作,确保公共和私营企业支持的支持和协作.
- Supports continued federal investment in the San Antonio region’s growing cybersecurity/national security ecosystem, 包括支持国防部/美国空军与圣安东尼奥港的合作,以建立一个新的, 为第16航空队及相关机构的合并校园, 解决美国空军关键设施的需求,进一步加强和利用圣安东尼奥的区域网络和防御能力.
非营利组织
- 支持恢复普遍的慈善扣除额和其他个人捐赠的激励措施,让纳税人受益于致力于加强我们社区的非营利组织.
- 支持在社会部门建立结构性机制,以帮助制定和改进联邦政策,使非营利社区更有效地为我们的社区服务.
- 支持要求国会敦促美国劳工部撤销对《cq9跳高高试玩》规定的雇员豁免联邦加班费规定的修改.
- 支持将2025年到期的《cq9跳高高试玩》延期.
运输
- 支持年度拨款和当地奖助金申请(县、市、VIA等).),以配合基建投资的地面运输 & 就业法案(IIJA)/两党基础设施法(BIL)于2021年11月21日签署成为法律.
- 威盛优先事项有待内部领导批准.
- VIA正在申请的资助:
- 十七辆铰接式巴士获低排放或零排放津贴
- 巴士及巴士设施拨款兴建第二个维修设施.
- VIA正在申请的资助:
水
- 支持继续通过美国联邦政府拨款.S. 西城河生态系统恢复项目的陆军工程兵团.
- Supports for more research on the blind catfish in the Edwards Aquifer before listing them as Endangered Species.
- Supports increased federal investment in water and wastewater infrastructure to help utilities address pressing needs.
- Supports laws and regulations that provide a stable and equitable frame工作 for managing water utilities.
- 支持正在进行的节约用水工作, 如提高用水效率,减少水分流失.
- 支持水和废水紧急援助计划.