Washington, May 27 -- Congresswoman Veronica Escobar issued the following press release:
Today, Congresswoman Veronica Escobar (TX-16) released the following statement in response to the El Paso Chamber of Commerce fighting against the removal of commercial traffic from the Bridge of the Americas (BOTA) (https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/el-paso-chamber-fights-plan-to-reroute-commercial-trucks-from-bridge-of-the-americas-city-of-el-paso-county-ricardo-mora-ceo-president-federal-veronica-escobar-environmental-study-truck-trade-mexico-usa-united-states):
"An overwhelming majority of El Pasoans support removing commercial traffic from BOTA; we've known this since GSA reported that 93% of the 12,000 El Pasoans who participated in public comment s...