Press Releases
July 16, 2018
Washington, D.C. — U.S. Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Ranking Member of the Ways and Means Tax Policy Subcommittee, today issued this statement on President Trump’s meeting with Vladimir Putin and Trump’s refusal to side with U.S. intelligence agencies regarding Russian interference in our election:
July 12, 2018
Washington, D.C. — U.S. Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Ranking Member of the Ways and Means Tax Policy Subcommittee, today offered an amendment to ensure that health care plans could not take away protections for people with pre-existing conditions.
July 11, 2018
Washington, D.C. — U.S. Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Ranking Member of the Ways and Means Tax Policy Subcommittee, offered a motion to stop and take a week to determine how to pay for legislation that would cost a full $92 billion, while only alleviating health care costs for the wealthy. Republicans in committee rejected his motion on a party-line vote.
July 5, 2018
Washington, D.C. — U.S. Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) is concerned by new reports regarding asylum-seeking mothers whose children were seized from them and who are being detained near Austin, Texas, which indicate that they are being denied release even after successfully showing at a preliminary hearing that they have a “credible fear” of returning to their home countries. While detained, they cannot be reunited with their wrongfully removed children. Congressman Doggett has made the attached official inquiry to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) regarding this apparent new Trump policy that appears designed to prolong separation and offered the following related statement:
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June 27, 2018
Washington, D.C. — U.S. Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) spoke on the floor of the House today on his limitations amendment that would have prevented military bases from being turned into child internment camps, joined by 41 of his colleagues. But his effort was blocked in the Rules Committee on a party-line vote, as Republicans prevented its consideration on the floor of the House.
June 25, 2018
Washington, D.C. — U.S. Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) released the following statement on today’s Supreme Court decision regarding the Texas redistricting case:
June 20, 2018
Washington, D.C. — U.S. Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) issued the following statement on the cruel Trump policy to separate and detain families seeking asylum and his new executive order:
“President Trump’s sudden reversal on family separation shows clearly that no law, no court, no Democrat has prevented him from stopping his horrifying policy. With their silence and double-talk, our Republican colleagues have been his enablers. Clearly, Trump could already have ended his self-imposed wrongdoing as fast as he saluted a North Korean General. Now, he needs to explain how soon these terrified toddlers can be returned into their mother’s arms and to apologize for the great pain and child abuse that he has inflicted.
June 13, 2018
Washington, D.C. — U.S. Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), a senior member of the Ways and Means Committee and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Tax Policy, spoke on the floor of the House about the very modest opioid bills the House is considering this week. He detailed the ways in which these measures fall far short of confronting the dire opioid crisis and holding Big Pharma accountable. You can watch his speech here or read the remarks below.
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June 7, 2018
Washington, D.C.— Today, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD) issued the below joint statement after the Department of Justice (DOJ) responded to a letter they sent on April 17, 2018, along with Reps. Don Beyer (D-VA) and Joaquin Castro (D-TX), alleging that the Executive Office for Immigration Review and the Department of Justice engaged in illegal political discrimination when hiring immigration judges and members of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA):
May 24, 2018
WASHINGTON— Reps. Henry Cuellar (TX-28), Joaquín Castro (TX-20), and Lloyd Doggett (TX-35) secured an amendment to H.R. 5515, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2019 to improve utility service infrastructure for Joint Base San Antonio (JBSA) and the City of San Antonio.