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March 21, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Tax Policy Subcommittee, questioned U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer in a Ways and Means hearing on the public health impacts of current NAFTA negotiations.
March 19, 2018
A Salvadoran woman seeking asylum who has said that a guard groped her inside a Williamson County immigration detention facility has been released, a group supporting her said Saturday.
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March 16, 2018
U.S. Congressman Lloyd Doggett and State Rep. Celia Israel at the home of Mayor Steve Adler hosted a welcome for Selma, Alabama U.S. Congresswoman Terri Sewell.
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March 13, 2018
String of 3 bombings in 10 days in Austin leaves 2 people dead, 3 wounded. Boy, 17, killed Monday when package explodes at home on Oldfort Hill Drive.
March 9, 2018
President Donald Trump surprised the world Thursday by accepting North Korea leader Kim Jong Un’s invitation to meet and discuss the Asian nation’s nuclear program. Members of Congress from Central Texas reacted to historic announcement.
March 9, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Tax Policy Subcommittee, reacted to the announcement by South Korea’s National Security Adviser that President Trump has accepted an invitation by North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un to meet “by May.”
March 5, 2018
In what’s hailed as a landmark addition to the Southside, Confluence Park formally opened Saturday with a ceremony where city, county and federal officials traded congratulatory remarks with San Antonio River Foundation authorities beneath what’s lauded as a one-of-a-kind pavilion.
March 1, 2018
New legislation introduced today, the No Tax Breaks for Outsourcing Act, by Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) would help repair the damage to the international tax code wrought by the new Trump-GOP tax lawand move toward a system where U.S. corporations can’t reap tax benefits from shifting jobs and profits offshore.
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February 27, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Ranking Member of the Ways and Means Tax Policy Subcommittee, introduced the No Tax Breaks for Outsourcing Act with Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI). The legislation would level the playing field for domestic companies by ensuring that multinationals pay the same tax rate on profits earned abroad as they do in the United States, ending new tax incentives created by President Trump’s tax law to outsources jobs and shift profits offshore.
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February 27, 2018
Two U.S. congressmen representing Texas called for an “expedited audit” of the T. Don Hutto immigrant detention center in Taylor, citing a female asylum seeker’s allegations that she was sexually assaulted by a guard and similar allegations from two other detainees.
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