Press Releases
September 20, 2023
Washington, D.C. — U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (TX-37) and the entire Texas Democratic delegation have renewed their urgent request that the Biden Administration pause procedural terminations of Medicaid coverage until a comprehensive audit of the Texas Health and Human Services Commission’s (HHSC) faulty system is conducted and brought into full compliance with federal law. Just after this request, a third whistleblower letter from HHSC staff was forwarded to Governor Abbott, who has remained silent about his Administration’s failures throughout the Medicaid redetermination process. This letter expresses deep concern about significant procedural delays and erroneous coverage denials.
Issues:Healthcare
September 19, 2023
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), a senior member of the House Ways and Means Committee, and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), a member of the Senate Finance and Environment and Public Works Committees, introduced legislation that would create a new incentive to recycle plastic and help reduce the plastic waste that is disrupting coastal economies, overwhelming ecosystems, and threatening public health.
Issues:Protecting Our Planet
September 19, 2023
Washington, D.C.—Today, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) and Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Angus King (I-ME) urged Department of Commerce (DOC) Secretary Gina Raimondo and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra to release the Interagency Working Group for Bayh-Dole’s draft framework for public comment. This framework is anticipated to lay out the criteria and guidelines for agencies to use their existing statutory authority to assure reasonable prices on pharmaceuticals and other innovative products developed with taxpayer funding. In July, the two departments expressed their intent to publish a framework by the end of 2023.
Issues:Healthcare
September 12, 2023
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), a senior member of the House Ways and Means Committee, whose Chairman has been designated by Speaker McCarthy as a leader of an impeachment inquiry into President Biden, released the following statement:
September 12, 2023
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Representatives Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, and Nanette Barragán (D-CA), member of the House Energy & Commerce Health Subcommittee, led 110 Members in supporting the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed rule to expand medically necessary dental coverage to patients with all forms of cancer and permit Medicare payment for dental services prior to chemotherapy and other immunotherapies.
Issues:Healthcare
September 1, 2023
Washington, D.C.—Today, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin), Ranking Member of the House Ways & Means Health Subcommittee, released the following statement regarding the Biden Administration’s announcement of new actions on nursing home safety:
Issues:Healthcare
August 22, 2023
Washington, D.C. — Today, Rep. Lloyd Doggett (TX-37) and Rep. Greg Casar (TX-35), together with the entire Texas Democratic delegation, urged the Biden Administration to quickly intervene and pause the Medicaid redetermination process to take corrective action and ensure the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) comes into full compliance with federal Medicaid requirements.
Issues:Healthcare
August 10, 2023
Austin, TX – Today, Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin) urged Austin veterans who were exposed to toxic substances and may be eligible for expanded VA health care and benefits under the PACT Act to file a claim—or submit an intent to file—by August 14, 2023, to receive benefits backdated to August 10, 2022.
Issues:Veterans
August 4, 2023
Washington, D.C.—Today, U.S. Representatives Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) and Lloyd Smucker (R-PA) introduced the Vaccine Injury Compensation Modernization Act to provide much-needed updates and improvements to the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) and shift pending COVID-19 vaccine claims from the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP) to the VICP. This legislation would override the Administration’s recent announcement that COVID-19 claims will remain in the CICP through December 31, 2024.
Issues:Healthcare
July 21, 2023
WASHINGTON — Today, Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin) and Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-San Antonio), together with many colleagues, including the entire Texas Democratic delegation and the chairs of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, Congressional Black Caucus, and Congressional Asian-Pacific American Caucus, urged the Biden administration to assert its authority over federal immigration policy and foreign relations to investigate Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star border operation and pursue legal action to stop the extraordinary cruelty against migrants detailed in recent reports from the San Antonio Express-News, the Houston Chronicle, and the New York Times.
Issues:Immigration