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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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March 25, 2024
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The U.S. must remove investor-state dispute settlement mechanisms from the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement and other trade deals in the region, nearly 50 House Democrats said last week. In a March 21 letter to U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, a group of 47 House lawmakers called for the officials to work with CAFTA-DR partners to remove the agreement’s ISDS mechanism, arguing it facilitates “harmful corporate overreach in emerging economies.”
March 14, 2024
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“History will prove Ken Paxton is a corrupt, sophisticated criminal. History will prove vouchers are simply an expensive entitlement program for the wealthy and a get rich scheme for voucher vendors. History will prove Governor Greg Abbott is a liar." In the Weatherford newspaper Rep. Glenn Rogers, who avoided badmouthing Gov. Greg Abbott while Abbott was attacking him during the campaign, wrote:
March 11, 2024
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Washington, D.C.—Today, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) announced $105.2 million in federal funds for the City of Austin’s Cap and Stitch Program to reconnect east and west at César Chávez Street, increasing access, mobility, and economic opportunity. The funds, distributed by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), are made possible through the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)—a law for which Rep. Doggett was the only Centex supporter and which every Texas Congressional Republican opposed. Rep. Doggett also previously secured an appropriation for preliminary engineering on this project, which was recently supplemented by an additional U.S. DOT planning grant.