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On March 21, Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin, announced that he has secured $2 million in federal appropriations for the new Central Texas Community Mental Health Sur­veil­lance Collaborative, a project that aims to create an interactive map of mental health data similar to local COVID dashboards. The project, one of 10 chosen from a community project funding request, is being designed by Texas State Uni­ver­sity's Dr. Melinda Villagran and Dr. Alessandro De Nadai. Villagran says when the pandemic hit in March 2020, she was struck by the simple visual language of COVID dashboards: "There's a lot of data available, but very few of us have the bandwidth to look at it, find it, understand it, and use it every day. I found it to be a visual way to make sense of what was happening. And I thought, man, we need one of these for everything!"

Give Koch Industries credit for consistency: It’s aiding the foes of democracy at home and abroad.

WASHINGTON — All politics is local is an adage that has been especially true when it comes to earmarking federal money for local projects, a practice that just made a comeback after a decadelong hiatus, with millions of dollars benefiting Austin and Central Texas.

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett, Chair of the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, and U.S. Representative Earl Blumenauer, Chair of the House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee, support legislation introduced today to suspend normal trade relations with Russia and Belarus. The bill will be considered shortly on the floor of the House.

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett, Chair of the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, and U.S. Representative Earl Blumenauer, Chair of the House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee, welcome President Biden’s support for their effort to end Permanent Normal Trade Relations with Russia.

AUSTIN, Texas — A resounding show of congressional unity with the Ukrainian people took place in D.C. The House passed the Suspending Energy Imports From Russia Act, a bill introduced by U.S. House Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), in a 414 - 17 vote.

Russian coal, gas and oil and other petroleum products would be illegal to import in the U.S. under a bill the House passed Wednesday in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.