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March 11, 2024
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.  

May 31, 2023
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin) voted to lift the debt ceiling and prevent a national default, which would have created an economic catastrophe. Before the vote, Rep. Doggett spoke on the House Floor to express his dissatisfaction with the deal but reiterate the importance of assuring that the full faith and credit of the United States is upheld. The legislation now heads to the Senate with sufficient time for final approval by the June 5 deadline.

May 25, 2023
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin) joined fellow Democrats on the House Floor to demand the Republican majority do their jobs and pay America’s bills.

January 27, 2023
Washington, D.C. – This afternoon, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin) announces that Austin is receiving $54 million in federal funding this year through the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA). He releases this statement:

With my support, Congress recently passed new climate and tax fairness legislation that constitutes the single largest investment in addressing the climate crisis in American history. It works both to take bold action on a national, systemic level and to offer direct consumer money-saving benefits—to empower us all to take part in climate solutions.

August 21, 2022
AUSTIN, Texas — In this week's edition of Texas This Week, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas has a new CEO, Texas schools got their grades from the TEA and President Joe Biden got a major win this week, signing the Inflation Reduction Act into law. 

June 3, 2022
Austin, TX  – This morning, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin) announced a new $780,000 grant awarded to CapMetro by the Federal Transit Administration and the Department of Transportation—all funding made possible by the American Rescue Plan.

June 2, 2022
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin), Chair of the Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, releases the following statement regarding the 2022 Social Security Trustees Report and 2022 Medicare Trustees Report:

February 23, 2022
AUSTIN, Texas — Capital Metro (CapMetro) leaders, U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett and Nuria Fernandez, administrator of the Federal Transit Administration, met Wednesday to discuss the transit service's impact on the community and its future programming, Project Connect's progress and CapMetro's partnership with the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Transit Administration and congressional delegation.

February 22, 2022
Austin, T.X. – Tomorrow, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin) will join community leaders and Foundation families to officially open Foundation Communities’ newest and largest Prosper Center with a press conference at one of the busiest times of the year for the organization—tax time—and share how Central Texans can get free help right now to file their returns and claim the second half of their expanded Child Tax Credit and other credits, including the full Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC).