Nydia Velazquez

Rep. Nydia Velazquez and more than 100 other members of Congress are demanding that the Trump administration withdraw a proposed new rule that would let religious groups discriminate against LGBTQ families....

When Mark Zuckerberg appeared before the House Financial Services Committee last week, legislators treated the Facebook CEO like he was getting put in timeout. "Have you learned that you should not lie?" asked Democratic Rep. Nydia Velazquez in th...

A trio of New York City lawmakers aim to ban all tourist and ride-sharing helicopters flying in Big Apple airspace in the aftermath of deadly crashes. Democratic Reps. Jerrold Nadler, Carolyn Maloney and Nydia Velazquez will unveil their legislation to re...

Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday accused HUD Secretary Ben Carson of corruption for withholding disaster funding from Puerto Rico. Read Full Story...

Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday accused HUD Secretary Ben Carson of corruption for withholding disaster funding from Puerto Rico....

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson clashed Tuesday with Rep. Nydia Velazquez, D-N.Y., as a hearing on the Trump administration's housing plans turned to the subject of disaster relief funds for Puerto Rico....

House Small Business Committee Chairwoman Nydia Velazquez plans to invite the companies to face questions from the committee in late October or early November, Bloomberg said. "Chairwoman Velazquez believes that small businesses deserve to compete on ...

House Small Business Committee Chairwoman Nydia Velazquez plans to invite the companies to face questions from the committee in late October or early November, Bloomberg said. "Chairwoman Velazquez believes that small businesses deserve to compete on ...

Congress must act to protect small businesses from predatory lenders who seize their assets without warning using a legal instrument called a confession of judgment, U.S. Representative Nydia Velazquez said Wednesday....

Congress must act to protect small businesses from predatory lenders who seize their assets without warning using a legal instrument called a confession of judgment, U.S. Representative Nydia Velazquez said at a hearing in Washington Wednesday....

NEW YORK — Two-way tolling could be returning to the Verrazzano Bridge.U.S. Reps. Max Rose, Jerrold Nadler and Nydia Velazquez on Sunday announced plans to introduce federal legislation to restore two-way tolling on the bridge after it was done away...

NEW YORK (AP) - Two-way tolling could be returning to the Verrazzano Bridge. U.S. Reps. Max Rose, Jerrold Nadler and Nydia Velazquez on Sunday announced plans to introduce federal legislation to restore two-way tolling on the bridge after it was done away...

NEW YORK (AP) - Two-way tolling could be returning to the Verrazzano Bridge. U.S. Reps. Max Rose, Jerrold Nadler and Nydia Velazquez on Sunday announced plans to introduce federal legislation to restore two-way tolling on the bridge after it was done away...

NEW YORK (AP) - Two-way tolling could be returning to the Verrazzano Bridge. U.S. Reps. Max Rose, Jerrold Nadler and Nydia Velazquez on Sunday announced plans to introduce federal legislation to restore two-way tolling on the bridge after it was done away...

U.S. Representative Nydia Velazquez, a New York Democrat, asks Citigroup CEO Michael Corbat at a hearing in Washington what it was like to get paid more than 400 times his employees' median pay. Corbat's response was that he hoped employees might ...

Rep. Nydia Velazquez discusses her efforts to get more help to the struggling island....

Rep. Nydia Velazquez sent out a fundraising email boasting that she's fought to wrest power from "old white men." But there was a problem with the pitch: some of the people she's soliciting for donations to her re-election campaign are ......

'Instead she threatened and belittled me'...

Democratic Rep. Nydia Velzquez responded to a conservative student's tweet about last week's State of the Union address by saying "you're right to be afraid of us."...

Rep. Nydia Velazquez, D-N.Y., told a 16-year-old Republican that he should be afraid of her....

What happened? During the State of the Union address Tuesday, 16-year-old CJ Pearson on Twitter referred to U.S. Rep. Nydia Velazquez of New York as "the woman next to" fellow Democratic U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, saying Velazquez "ke...

New York Democratic Rep. Nydia Velazquez threatened a pro-Trump teen pundit on social media, telling him he's...

Is this even remarkable anymore? Adults threatening teenagers for their politics made its way into the Overton Window weeks ago. Even elected officials got into the act. Then again, elected officials telling citizens they are "right to be afraid" ...

'You're right to be afraid of us'...

Federal inmates at the Metropolitcan Detention Center in Brooklyn have been without heat or electricity for a week, lawyers and U.S. Rep. Nydia Velazquez say....

NEW YORK (AP) — A congresswoman who visited a federal detention center in New York City where inmates have been stuck in cold, dark cells for days says it was "surreal" to hear the inmates banging on the walls. Rep. Nydia Velazquez visited t...

NEW YORK (AP) - A congresswoman who visited a federal detention center in New York City where inmates have been stuck in cold, dark cells for days says it was "surreal" to hear the inmates banging on the walls. Rep. Nydia Velazquez visited the Met...