Texas lawmakers ask HHS to set up field hospital, federal resources in the state

The three Democrats who represent Texas’s Rio Grande Valley joined the state’s two Republican senators in asking Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar to send federal resources to the region. Republican Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn and Democratic Reps. Vicente Gonzalez, Filemon Vela and Henry Cuellar – the three lawmakers who represent the Rio Grande Valley border region – asked HHS to set up a field hospital in the region and…