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For the 10th time in the last several months, Republicans on Wednesday blocked a Democratic resolution offered on the House floor requesting President Trump's tax returns.
The measure was defeated on a procedural vote of 227-188 that fell largely along party lines.
The resolution was offered by Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas), the top Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee's tax policy subcommittee.
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SAN ANTONIO - Members of the San Antonio Food Bank and Feeding Texas joined Rep. Lloyd Doggett to urge members of the Texas Congressional Delegation to reject President Donald Trump's budget proposal.
The proposed budget threatens to dramatically increase the number of Texans at risk of hunger. It would cut $193 billion from the food stamp program.
Doggett said the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program is a lifeline for children, seniors, veterans and people with disabilities who are facing hard times.
Trump administration officials will huddle Friday as part of a push to issue an executive order addressing rising drug prices, but few are expecting its punch to match the president's often blistering rhetoric about the pharmaceutical industry.
President Donald Trump made drug costs a prominent issue during his campaign and beefed up his criticisms after the election, saying in January that the industry was "getting away with murder."
Hundreds of people gathered at Austin City Hall on Saturday to demand an independent investigation of President Donald Trump and his associates' possible ties to Russia.
The event in the sweltering heat was one of more than 100 other such "March for Truth" demonstrations scheduled throughout the country and world on June 3.
Rallygoers called for an independent commission to investigate Russian ties, adequate resources for nonpartisan congressional investigations, the release of Trump's tax returns and prosecution of any confirmed crimes.
Deep in the heart of America's top emitting state for greenhouse gases, reaction to President Trump's decision to drop out of the Paris climate accord broke largely along ideological and party lines.
Trump announced Thursday that the U.S. would begin a process of withdrawing from the Paris deal signed by more than 190 countries. The U.S. made a non-binding pledge in 2015 to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 26 to 28 percent from 2005 levels by 2020.
WASHINGTON — Hundreds of independent pharmacists swarmed the House and Senate office buildings one recent afternoon, climbing the marble staircases as they rushed from one appointment to the next, pitching lawmakers on their plan to rein in the soaring drug prices that have enraged American consumers.
As they crowded into lawmakers' offices, describing themselves as the industry's "white hats," they pointed a finger at pharmacy benefit managers like Express Scripts and CVS Health, which handle the drug coverage of millions of Americans.
On Memorial Day, families all across the country take time to honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country. For many of our friends and neighbors here in San Antonio, honoring the memory of our fallen heroes is personal.
San Antonio is called "Military City USA" not only to salute those in uniform today, but also for the many veterans who call San Antonio home. Our veterans make American great, and our country is stronger when veterans promptly receive the benefits they earned for their service to our great Nation.
SAN ANTONIO - The families of those killed in a hot air balloon crash last July in Lockhart are pressuring the White House to improve oversight on commercial ballooning.
Budget offices tallies up GOP plan
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WASHINGTON — Healthcare legislation adopted by House Republicans earlier this month would leave 23 million more Americans without insurance within a decade, and confront many others who have costly medical conditions with coverage that could prove unaffordable, the Congressional Budget Office projected Wednesday.