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"I think this map is so far from reality and in so muchviolation of the law, it's premature to say," Doggett said in a phone interview."It's the only district in the area that has enough of my district, enoughDemocrats at this point, but again, I haven't made any finaldecision."
Instead, Doggett and his fellow Democrats are planningto take the map to court. Texas' new Congressional lines must be cleared by theJustice Department for appropriate minority voting power, and the Congressmanwas quick to declare that the proposed map is in clear violation of the VotingRights Act.
The ironic thing is Central/West Austin got craved upagain in pieces just like South Austin thistime with this proposed congressional map. The proposed lines for District 25are a perfect text book example of political gerrymandering and an insult to thecitizens of TravisCounty. The lateCongressman Jake Pickle's thirty one years of effective service is conclusiveevidence of the value and clout produced by Travis County being represented by oneUS Congressman.
June 2, 2011
By Tom Ennis
Full article: https://coaltarfreeamerica.blogspot.com/2011/06/congressman-doggett-compliments.html
May 25, 2011
Last Tuesday, Austin-based American YouthWorks (AYW) was awarded almost $1.1 million in federal support for Casa Verde Builders (CVB), a YouthBuild education and jobs training program. The offices of US Congressman Lloyd Doggett and US Senator John Cornyn notified and congratulated the non-profit after Labor Secretary Hilda L. Solis announced the awards that morning.
The corporations have united under a campaign called "WinAmerica," and evidently they are having some effect. Yesterday, Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) unveiled a bill that would let corporations repatriate their money at a tax rate of 5.25 percent (instead of the usual 35 percent).
Repatriation legislation introduced yesterday by Representative Kevin Brady, a Texas Republican, repeats most of a 2004 law. It would allow U.S.-based companies to repatriate, for one year, income earned overseas at a 5.25 percent rate instead of the 35 percent statutory corporate rate. The money that would flow to the U.S. -- estimated to be as much as $1 trillion -- would spur job creation and investment, Brady maintains.
By: LISA FALKENBERG
Copyright 2011, HOUSTON CHRONICLE
April 25, 2011, 11:17PM
"Hallelujah!" Republicans cried in a chorus of celebratory news releases over the weekend.
The schoolchildren of Texas had been narrowly saved from an evil plot by congressional Democrats to push an amendment that denied the students, and their teachers, $832 million in federal money during one of the worst budget crises the Lone Star State has ever seen.
The provision was quietly inserted into the late-night deal that prevented the federal government for shutting down.
For Texas, which faces a yawning budget deficit, the repeal of the measure authored by Austin Democratic Rep. Lloyd Doggett officially known as the Save Our Schools Amendment gives the state legislature a large pot of unexpected money to help plug its own deficit. Texas legislators can either use the money to reduce the size of proposed budget cuts to education in Texasor they can effectively divert the money to other uses.
February 28, 2011
How repetitive political rhetoric holds back $830 million from saving education jobs.