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May 14, 2018
San Antonio, Texas – Today, Monday, May 14, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-San Antonio) and U.S. Representative Joaquin Castro (D-San Antonio) will stand alongside the San Antonio Food Bank to sound the alarm on the huge cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in the proposed 2018 Farm Bill that the House is expected to vote on this coming week.
May 10, 2018
Democrats say President Trump's decision to scrap the Iran nuclear deal sets a high bar for ensuring denuclearization — a standard they plan to hold him to ahead of his planned talks with North Korea's Kim Jong Un next month.
"By declaring that the extensive enforcement provisions against Iran are grossly deficient, in what he described as ‘the worst deal ever,' Trump sets the standard by which he himself should be judged in Korea," Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas).
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May 10, 2018
Washington, D.C. — Today, U.S. Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), senior Member on the House Ways & Means Committee and co-Chair of the Affordable Prescription Drug Task Force, spoke at a press conference with House Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Senate Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), and other Members of the Task Force on the need to rein in the skyrocketing cost of prescription drugs.
May 10, 2018
Washington, DC – Today House and Senate Democrats outlined a recently released report that exposed the alarming trend of rising prescription drug prices under the Trump administration and called on President Trump to support Democrats’ “Better Deal” proposals to lower prescription drug prices.
May 10, 2018
WASHINGTON – Texas lawmakers split sharply Tuesday on President Trump's plan to claw back more than $15 billion in congressionally-approved spending, nearly half of which would come from a children's health program that provides coverage for 400,000 kids and pregnant women in the state.
May 10, 2018
WASHINGTON — Texas’ Republican senators endorsed President Donald Trump’s decision Tuesday to pull out of the Iran nuclear agreement, but House Democrats from San Antonio contended the world will be less safe as a result.
May 8, 2018
Washington, D.C. — Today, U.S. Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), senior Member on the House Ways & Means Committee, issued the following statement regarding President Trump’s impending withdrawal from the Iran Nuclear Agreement. In 2015, Rep. Doggett, along with Reps. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) and David Price (D-NC), led a successful House whip effort to counter Republican obstruction of Obama Administration nuclear negotiations. You can view Rep. Doggett’s video statement here, and read his statement below.
May 8, 2018
Washington, D.C. — Today, U.S. Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), senior Member on the House Ways & Means Committee, issued the following statement regarding President Trump’s impending withdrawal from the Iran Nuclear Agreement.
May 7, 2018
WASHINGTON — In his State of the Union address in January and again in New Hampshire in March, President Trump made a bold promise: “You’ll be seeing drug prices falling very substantially in the not-too-distant future,” he said, “and it’s going to be beautiful.”
May 3, 2018
WILLIAMSON COUNTY — An advocacy group that helped an asylum seeker gain her release from an immigrant detention center in Taylor plans to put officials “on trial” Saturday, when alleged abuses at the facility will be aired during an unofficial hearing outside the center.
Issues:Immigration