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January 12, 2023
Washington, D.C. – As Central Texas faces a public health crisis of opioid misuse and drug-related overdose deaths, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin), senior member of the House Ways and Means Committee, will join Mayor Kirk Watson, Judge Andy Brown, Austin Public Health (APH), and more to announce new federal funding to break ground on an Austin substance use and misuse education and prevention project.
Issues:Healthcare

January 11, 2023
Washington, D.C. – Just now, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin) released the following statement regarding the announcement today from Health and Human Services (HHS) releasing key dates for the first year of the Inflation Reduction Act’s Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program:
Issues:Healthcare

January 7, 2023
Washington, D.C. – This evening, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin), released the following statement regarding the close of the longest speaker contest since before the Civil War:

December 30, 2022
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), a senior member of the House Ways and Means Committee who led efforts for the release of Trump’s tax returns since February 2017, released the following statement:

December 20, 2022
Washington, D.C. – This evening, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin), a senior member of the House Ways and Means Committee who has been pressing since February 2017 for Trump’s taxes, released this statement:

December 19, 2022
Washington, D.C. – Today, after The United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack released the executive summary of its final report and referred criminal charges against Donald Trump to the Justice Department, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin) released the following statement:

December 1, 2022
Washington, D.C. – Just now, after the House of U.S. Representatives passed the H.R.8203 - To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 651 Business Interstate Highway 35 North Suite 420 in New Braunfels, Texas, as the "Bob Krueger Post Office,” author of the bill U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) released the following statement on the life and legacy of the late public servant, New Braunfels native Bob Krueger:

November 23, 2022
Austin, TX – Today, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) released the following reaction to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) finally implementing the safety law he authored and passed in 2018 to require commercial hot-air balloon pilots to hold medical certificates when flying paying passengers:

November 18, 2022
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Chair, and Trade Subcommittee Chair Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) led 24 members in urging the Biden Administration to assure continued progress in improving trade data transparency—and, specifically, to reject a current proposal to end public disclosure of import data for goods arriving to the United States via ocean transport. This would make trade data even less accessible, making enforcement of human rights legislation like the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act much more difficult.

November 1, 2022
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Chair of the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, released a statement regarding tonight’s release of the Calendar Year 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), which includes a modest expansion of dental coverage for Medicare beneficiaries—as Rep. Doggett has pressed for. He said:
Issues:Healthcare