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May 17, 2018
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Maya Diaz, a junior at Brackenridge HS, placed first in Congressional District 35 in the United States Congressional Institutes nationwide Congressional Art Competition. Each spring, the Institute sponsors a nationwide high school visual art competition to recognize and encourage artistic talent in the nation and in each congressional district. District 35's Lloyd Doggett presented Diaz the honor on May 14, 2018, at the school library. Diaz's artwork will be on display in Washington, D.C. at the U.S. Capitol for a year. Sarah Estrada, a junior at Jefferson HS, placed third in Congressional District 20 and recieved recognition from Joaquin Castro earlier this month.
May 15, 2018
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Two democratic San Antonio Congressmen — Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin, and Joaquin Castro, D-San Antonio — are speaking out against the proposed Farm Bill and cuts to the supplemental nutrition assistance program, also known as SNAP.
May 14, 2018
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Proposed cuts to the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) would leave an estimated 10,000 Bexar County residents without food assistance, according to estimates from U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett's office.
May 10, 2018
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Democrats say President Trump's decision to scrap the Iran nuclear deal sets a high bar for ensuring denuclearization — a standard they plan to hold him to ahead of his planned talks with North Korea's Kim Jong Un next month.
May 10, 2018
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WASHINGTON – Texas lawmakers split sharply Tuesday on President Trump's plan to claw back more than $15 billion in congressionally-approved spending, nearly half of which would come from a children's health program that provides coverage for 400,000 kids and pregnant women in the state.
May 10, 2018
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WASHINGTON — Texas’ Republican senators endorsed President Donald Trump’s decision Tuesday to pull out of the Iran nuclear agreement, but House Democrats from San Antonio contended the world will be less safe as a result.
May 7, 2018
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WASHINGTON — In his State of the Union address in January and again in New Hampshire in March, President Trump made a bold promise: “You’ll be seeing drug prices falling very substantially in the not-too-distant future,” he said, “and it’s going to be beautiful.”
May 3, 2018
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WILLIAMSON COUNTY — An advocacy group that helped an asylum seeker gain her release from an immigrant detention center in Taylor plans to put officials “on trial” Saturday, when alleged abuses at the facility will be aired during an unofficial hearing outside the center.
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May 1, 2018
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If you’d like to send a little Tricentennial cheer around the globe, the U.S. Postal Service during May will be using a special pictorial postmark to celebrate San Antonio’s 300th anniversary, available only at the Arsenal post office, 1140 S. Laredo St.
April 27, 2018
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Aiming to prevent further tragedies similar to the fatal hot air balloon crash that killed 16 people near Lockhart in 2016, an Austin congressman won passage of legislation Friday in the U.S. House that would require balloon operators to obtain a medical certificate.
In October, the National Transportation Safety Board had found that the Federal Aviation Administration’s refusal to require balloon operators to obtain a medical certificate contributed to the Caldwell County crash. The wide-ranging FAA bill that passed Friday includes an amendment by U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin, that ends the exemption.
“The FAA should have corrected this long ago,” Doggett said this week as he introduced his amendment. “Now with adoption of this amendment, I am hopeful that no other family will ever suffer the same horror as this tragedy near Lockhart.”