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U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett represents communities from Austin in the U.S. House of Representatives. He serves as Ranking Member of the Health Subcommittee on the House Ways & Means Committee, the oldest committee of the United States Congress. Doggett is also a member of the Ways and Means Select Revenue Measures Subcommittee, the Joint Committee on Taxation, and the House Budget Committee.
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Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin), Ranking Member of the Ways & Means Health Subcommittee, joined by Representatives Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), Rosa DeLauro (CT-03), and Jan Schakowsky (IL-09), led 74 lawmakers in calling on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to rein in wasteful taxpayer overpayments to Medicare Advantage (MA) plans and enact other reforms to protect consumers’ access to health care. Unlike Traditional Medicare, MA plans are administered by private insurers and have been found to be fraught with waste and abuse while sacrificing patient outcomes for higher corporate profit and threatening the overall solvency of Medicare.
Issues:Healthcare
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"Today, Trump signed an Executive Order directing Secretary McMahon to take all necessary steps to dismantle the Department of Education, an agency that serves over 5.6 million students across 9,000 Texas K-12 schools. This reckless, unlawful action doesn’t just skirt Congressional authority—it endangers the support for the most vulnerable students and schools in Texas: the 700,000 students with disabilities, the $140 million allocated for bilingual learners, and the $1.8 billion in funding for Title I schools that serve over 3.6 million students, including many in Austin.