In the News
May 22, 2018
In a closed door meeting, Gov. Greg Abbott sat down with fellow lawmakers and other experts Tuesday afternoon for the first day of scheduled roundtable discussions on school safety and gun violence following a massacre at Santa Fe High School last week. Abbott, a Republican, said the discussions are designed to develop strategies that will prevent further shootings.
May 21, 2018
"San Antonio Postmaster Robert D. Carr Jr., Executive Director of San Antonio Tricentennial Commission Carlos Contreras, Councilwoman Shirley Gonzales, and U.S. Congressman Lloyd Doggett 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."
May 18, 2018
There will never be enough horrifying shootings to force this NRA-controlled Congress to enact reasonable gun safety measures. The only way to ensure greater protection for our children is to replace this Congress with those committed to act. Enough moments of silence, we need moments of action to prevent other families from suffering the pain being suffered in Santa Fe.
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May 17, 2018
Maya Diaz, a junior at Brackenridge HS, placed first in Congressional District 35 in the United States Congressional Institutes nationwide Congressional Art Competition. Each spring, the Institute sponsors a nationwide high school visual art competition to recognize and encourage artistic talent in the nation and in each congressional district. District 35's Lloyd Doggett presented Diaz the honor on May 14, 2018, at the school library. Diaz's artwork will be on display in Washington, D.C. at the U.S. Capitol for a year. Sarah Estrada, a junior at Jefferson HS, placed third in Congressional District 20 and recieved recognition from Joaquin Castro earlier this month.
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May 15, 2018
Two democratic San Antonio Congressmen — Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin, and Joaquin Castro, D-San Antonio — are speaking out against the proposed Farm Bill and cuts to the supplemental nutrition assistance program, also known as SNAP.
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May 14, 2018
Proposed cuts to the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) would leave an estimated 10,000 Bexar County residents without food assistance, according to estimates from U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett's office.
May 10, 2018
Democrats say President Trump's decision to scrap the Iran nuclear deal sets a high bar for ensuring denuclearization — a standard they plan to hold him to ahead of his planned talks with North Korea's Kim Jong Un next month.
"By declaring that the extensive enforcement provisions against Iran are grossly deficient, in what he described as ‘the worst deal ever,' Trump sets the standard by which he himself should be judged in Korea," Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas).
May 10, 2018
WASHINGTON – Texas lawmakers split sharply Tuesday on President Trump's plan to claw back more than $15 billion in congressionally-approved spending, nearly half of which would come from a children's health program that provides coverage for 400,000 kids and pregnant women in the state.
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 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.”