Growing Our Economy
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.
Issues:Growing Our Economy
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.
Issues:Growing Our Economy
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.
Issues:Growing Our Economy
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).
Issues:Growing Our Economy
February 18, 2022
The Internal Revenue Service has reversed course and no longer plans to close its Austin facility.
Issues:Growing Our Economy
February 17, 2022
AUSTIN, Texas — The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced Thursday it will halt the planned 2024 closure of its Austin Tax Processing Center.
Issues:Growing Our Economy
February 17, 2022
Washington, D.C. — Just now, following advocacy from U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), and Congressmen Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-N.J.-09), the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced that it will halt the planned 2024 closure of the IRS Austin Tax Processing Center. This center is one of three remaining IRS facilities which process paper returns. Maintaining the Austin facility will better allow the agency to support the workforce needed to process 10 million outstanding paper returns from last year, as well as new returns from this season.
Issues:Growing Our Economy
February 16, 2022
AUSTIN, Texas — On Wednesday, Capital Metro will break ground on a new MetroRapid line.
Issues:Growing Our Economy
February 16, 2022
EAST AUSTIN, Texas - The Project Connect team held a ceremony on Wednesday to celebrate the groundbreaking of MetroRapid Pleasant Valley Route.
Issues:Growing Our Economy