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Members of Congress representing Central Texas offered mixed reactions Thursday to a border security deal to avert a government shutdown. Republicans didn’t say much, if anything, about President Donald Trump’s plan to declare a national emergency to secure more funding for barriers along the southern border.

AUSTIN, Texas — Nearly one in every five women suffer from prolapse, a condition where pelvic muscles no longer support pelvic organs.

Prescription drugs are for some, a matter of life and death. Many Americans are now buying pharmaceuticals from Mexico and Canada because they can't afford them in the United States. "We're having to pay probably the highest prices in the world for pharmaceuticals here," said United States Congressman, Lloyd Doggett.

U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett filed a bill Thursday that he said would lower rising prescription drug prices by allowing federal health care officials to negotiate drug prices with pharmaceutical companies, an idea President Donald Trump backed in 2016.

U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin, has filed at least six motions to release President Donald Trump's tax returns.

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump Tuesday night delivered his second State of the Union address, this time in front of a divided Congress. As expected, the president began by calling for unity, and along the way he touched on several topics that directly affect Texans.

WASHINGTON — The State of the Union Address is usually the president’s moment to make his case with soaring words. But newly empowered Democrats on Tuesday delivered their own pointed message to President Trump and the nation: We’re back and we won’t be pushed around.

Surrounded by patients who told horror stories of being stuck with hefty bills, President Trump recently waded into a widespread health care problem for which almost all people — even those with insurance — are at risk: surprise medical billing.