In the News
November 8, 2019
AUSTIN, Texas - Being a musician was something Lesly Reynaga always wanted to do.
“I got engaged in the community through high school opportunities to play in a mariachi ensemble. Then eventually was a student here at UT Austin and joined the mariachi ensemble there,” she said.
Issues:Healthcare
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November 7, 2019
"Lloyd Doggett is a man of integrity. Longtime public servant. Thank you, Lloyd!" – Carol Austin
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October 25, 2019
Widening support for the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump shows his diminished ability to use the probe as a political weapon, U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett said Friday.
Doggett, D-San Antonio/Austin, said Trump's willingness to lash out at members of his own party for not coming to his defense shows his desperation. The congressman began advocating for impeachment in the spring, long before the majority of the House expressed a willingness.
Issues:Trump's Impeachments
October 23, 2019
After injecting heroin for more than 20 years, Teal McDonald found a reprieve in in buprenorphine, a drug prescribed by a doctor to kill her craving for opioids.
Issues:Healthcare
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October 23, 2019
After injecting heroin for more than 20 years, Teal McDonald found a reprieve in in buprenorphine, a drug prescribed by a doctor to kill her craving for opioids.
Issues:Healthcare
October 18, 2019
When we think about private equity, we often think about companies like Toys R Us: purchased with borrowed money, loaded up with debt that ultimately all but destroys the firm. The investors make out, the employees and consumers lose out. But there’s another model too: Buy into a business where you can suck money out of consumers.
October 15, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Nexstar) — The controversy over immigration and the Census may have already done damage to the accuracy of the 2020 Census.
October 10, 2019
In late May, I called for an inquiry to determine whether President Donald Trump had committed impeachable offenses after he reacted to the Mueller report with a Mafia-style defense. He insisted that, while President, he could neither be investigated nor prosecuted, that he is empowered to ignore Congress, and declared that the Constitution allows him to do “whatever” he wants. Trump seems intent on breaking the law most days; on others, he breaks and divides America with hate speech.
October 4, 2019
Impeachment of a president is a question of enormous magnitude, not to be undertaken lightly. Under our Constitution, it is an essential tool to check abuse of presidential authority and ensure one-person rule does not replace our system of checks and balances. Our founders did not intend for anyone to be above the law — certainly not the executive wielding the greatest power.
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September 15, 2019
In this time of great division, we are stronger when we remember what binds us. We draw inspiration from the way our Nation--all of us, as citizens and neighbors--came together after the tragedy on 9/11.