Press Releases
May 16, 2025
Washington, D.C.—Today, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas), a member of the House Budget and Ways and Means Committees, released the following statement after Republicans failed to advance their own budget reconciliation bill:
“Even some Republicans realized that Trump’s ‘one big beautiful bill’ is an ugly lie atop a mountain of lies and dangerous trillions of additional national debt. Republicans will be back with another scheme next week, and House Democrats will be ready to fight.
May 12, 2025
“Rather than changing the law, Trump issues another press release that will offer consumers little or nothing. Begging Big Pharma to show some benevolence to the taxpayers and consumers, whom they continue to price gouge, will do nothing to assure access to affordable medications."
Issues:Healthcare
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May 9, 2025
Austin, Texas—Today, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin) honored 13 Austin students whom he nominated for our nation’s military service academies. In a highly competitive selection process, these students have been admitted to the U.S. Military, Air Force, and Naval Academies.
Issues:Our Families and Children
May 8, 2025
Washington, D.C. – As Congress considers reconciliation legislation, Representatives Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) and Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), along with Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee led their colleagues in writing to Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, urging them to crack down on waste, fraud, and abuse in Medicare Advantage (MA) instead of forging ahead with cuts to Medicaid.
Issues:Healthcare
May 1, 2025
Washington, DC – Today, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) introduced the Stop Subsidizing Multimillion Dollar Corporate Bonuses Act to close a major loophole in current corporate tax law that uses taxpayer dollars to fund lavish pay packages. The bill would specifically end special tax breaks for publicly traded companies that deduct the cost of any multimillion-dollar bonus paid to executives.
Issues:Growing Our Economy
April 16, 2025
Washington, D.C.—Today, Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Ranking Member Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) and Health Subcommittee member Greg Murphy, M.D. (R-NC) made a bipartisan request to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) for a detailed investigation and report on the vertical consolidation of Medicare Advantage Organizations (MAO) and its effect on Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) calculations.
Issues:Healthcare
April 15, 2025
Washington, D.C.—As President Trump defends Russia’s deadliest attack against Ukrainian civilians this year and continues to parrot Kremlin propaganda blaming Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for starting the war, U.S. Representatives Lloyd Doggett (D-TX); Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee; Steny Hoyer (D-MD), former Majority Leader; William Keating (D-MA), Ranking Member of the Europe Subcommittee; and Gerry Connolly (D-VA), Ranking Member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, introduced a comprehensive bill to support Ukraine and thwart Russia’s ability to wage its brutal, illegal war.
April 2, 2025
“Trump’s declaration that he 'couldn’t care less' if his damaging tariffs cause prices to go up is a mighty big reversal from his promise to bring down prices ‘drastically.’ His ‘Liberation Day’ only liberates dollars from Americans’ wallets with the added danger of liberating many entrepreneurs from failed businesses as tariffs spike costs. Trump's tariffs for all represent a big tax hike for all Americans to pay. Americans will not be fooled by repeated Administration claims that tariffs are tax cuts.
Issues:Growing Our Economy
April 2, 2025
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representatives Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), senior member of the House Ways and Means Committee, Danny K. Davis (D-IL), ranking member of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Worker and Family Support, Mike Kelly (R-PA), Chairman of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Tax, and Randy Feenstra (R-IA) introduced the bipartisan Tax-Free Pell Grants Act to remove a financial and logistical barrier impairing students from securing higher education opportunities.
March 27, 2025
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin), Ranking Member of the Ways & Means Health Subcommittee, joined by Representatives Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), Rosa DeLauro (CT-03), and Jan Schakowsky (IL-09), led 74 lawmakers in calling on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to rein in wasteful taxpayer overpayments to Medicare Advantage (MA) plans and enact other reforms to protect consumers’ access to health care. Unlike Traditional Medicare, MA plans are administered by private insurers and have been found to be fraught with waste and abuse while sacrificing patient outcomes for higher corporate profit and threatening the overall solvency of Medicare.
Issues:Healthcare