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May 10, 2018
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 8, 2018
Washington, D.C. — Today, U.S. Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), senior Member on the House Ways & Means Committee, issued the following statement regarding President Trump’s impending withdrawal from the Iran Nuclear Agreement. In 2015, Rep. Doggett, along with Reps. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) and David Price (D-NC), led a successful House whip effort to counter Republican obstruction of Obama Administration nuclear negotiations. You can view Rep. Doggett’s video statement here, and read his statement below.
May 8, 2018
Washington, D.C. — Today, U.S. Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), senior Member on the House Ways & Means Committee, issued the following statement regarding President Trump’s impending withdrawal from the Iran Nuclear Agreement.
May 7, 2018
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
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 2, 2018
Congressman Doggett recognizes Lee Ann Calaway for her decade of dedicated service, and welcomes Erin Gurak to the team as incoming district director of the Austin office.
May 1, 2018
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 30, 2018
San Antonio, Texas — Today, U.S. Congressman Lloyd Doggett, with Mayor Pro-Tem Councilwoman Shirley Gonzales, Executive Director of San Antonio Tricentennial Commission Carlos Contreras, and San Antonio Postmaster Robert D. Carr Jr. unveiled the City’s official Tricentennial Pictorial Postmark from the U.S. Postal Service, an exciting federal recognition of our City’s 300th year to kick-off Commemorative Week.
April 27, 2018
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.”
April 27, 2018
San Antonio, Texas — On Monday, April 30, U.S. Congressman Lloyd Doggett, with Mayor Pro-Tem Councilwoman Shirley Gonzales, Executive Director of San Antonio Tricentennial Commission Carlos Contreras, and San Antonio Postmaster Robert D. Carr Jr. will unveil the City’s official Tricentennial Cancellation Postmark from the U.S. Postal Service, an exciting federal recognition of our City’s 300th year to kick-off Commemorative Week.