Kika de la Garza dies, chaired House Ag panel for 14 years
The first Hispanic from the Rio Grande Valley elected to Congress, Kika de la Garza, who was House Agriculture chairman for 14 of his 32 years in Congress, died on Monday at age of 89. He was chairman during the farm recession of the mid-1980s, one of the hardest times for agriculture since the Depression.… » Read More
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