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July 12, 2018
Washington, D.C. — U.S. Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Ranking Member of the Ways and Means Tax Policy Subcommittee, today offered an amendment to ensure that health care plans could not take away protections for people with pre-existing conditions. The Trump Administration is determined to take away such protections.
July 11, 2018
Washington, D.C. — U.S. Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Ranking Member of the Ways and Means Tax Policy Subcommittee, offered a motion to stop and take a week to determine how to pay for legislation that would cost a full $92 billion, while only alleviating health care costs for the wealthy. Republicans in committee rejected his motion on a party-line vote.
July 10, 2018
WASHINGTON — Since President Donald Trump announced Judge Brett Kavanaugh to serve as the next Supreme Court justice, politicians and advocates have flocked to cable news and social media to share their reactions.
July 10, 2018
Highlights:
- The president nominated federal appeals court Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
- Experts say his confirmation would make the nation’s highest court reliably conservative for a generation.
Members of Congress representing Central Texas reacted to President Donald Trump’s nomination of federal appeals court Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court:
July 6, 2018
Two Texas lawyers have accused U.S. immigration officials of denying bond to some asylum-eligible immigrants, keeping them locked up and prolonging family separations in violation of a federal court order.
Issues:Immigration
July 5, 2018
Rep. Lloyd Doggett has made an official inquiry to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement asking it to explain what appears to be a policy prolonging separation of asylum-seeking immigrants.
July 5, 2018
Washington, D.C. — U.S. Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) is concerned by new reports regarding asylum-seeking mothers whose children were seized from them and who are being detained near Austin, Texas, which indicate that they are being denied release even after successfully showing at a preliminary hearing that they have a “credible fear” of returning to their home countries. While detained, they cannot be reunited with their wrongfully removed children. Congressman Doggett has made the attached official inquiry to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) regarding this apparent new Trump policy that appears designed to prolong separation and offered the following related statement:
Issues:Immigration
July 1, 2018
As thousands in cities across the nation assembled Saturday in protest of immigration policies that have separated families at the United States-Mexico border, several hundred gathered in San Antonio's Main Plaza to call for reuniting immigrant parents with their children.
June 27, 2018
Washington, D.C. — U.S. Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) spoke on the floor of the House today on his limitations amendment that would have prevented military bases from being turned into child internment camps, joined by 41 of his colleagues. But his effort was blocked in the Rules Committee on a party-line vote, as Republicans prevented its consideration on the floor of the House.
