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April 30, 2018
San Antonio, Texas — Today, U.S. Congressman Lloyd Doggett, with Mayor Pro-Tem Councilwoman Shirley Gonzales, Executive Director of San Antonio Tricentennial Commission Carlos Contreras, and San Antonio Postmaster Robert D. Carr Jr. unveiled the City’s official Tricentennial Pictorial Postmark from the U.S. Postal Service, an exciting federal recognition of our City’s 300th year to kick-off Commemorative Week.
April 27, 2018
Aiming to prevent further tragedies similar to the fatal hot air balloon crash that killed 16 people near Lockhart in 2016, an Austin congressman won passage of legislation Friday in the U.S. House that would require balloon operators to obtain a medical certificate.
In October, the National Transportation Safety Board had found that the Federal Aviation Administration’s refusal to require balloon operators to obtain a medical certificate contributed to the Caldwell County crash. The wide-ranging FAA bill that passed Friday includes an amendment by U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin, that ends the exemption.
“The FAA should have corrected this long ago,” Doggett said this week as he introduced his amendment. “Now with adoption of this amendment, I am hopeful that no other family will ever suffer the same horror as this tragedy near Lockhart.”
April 27, 2018
San Antonio, Texas — On Monday, April 30, U.S. Congressman Lloyd Doggett, with Mayor Pro-Tem Councilwoman Shirley Gonzales, Executive Director of San Antonio Tricentennial Commission Carlos Contreras, and San Antonio Postmaster Robert D. Carr Jr. will unveil the City’s official Tricentennial Cancellation Postmark from the U.S. Postal Service, an exciting federal recognition of our City’s 300th year to kick-off Commemorative Week.
April 26, 2018
Washington, D.C. — Today, U.S. Congressman Lloyd Doggett’s (D-TX) hot air balloon pilot safety amendment, was approved as a part of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Reauthorization Act.
April 26, 2018
An Austin congressman, whose district runs into parts of San Antonio, has offered up federal legislation to make hot-air balloon flights safer.
April 25, 2018
Washington, D.C. — Today, U.S. Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) delivered remarks on the House Floor on an amendment he authored, designed to prevent more tragedies similar to the devastating hot air balloon crash that killed 16 people near Lockhart in 2016.
April 23, 2018
Highlights
• More than 2,000 Central Texas students meet at Austin’s Wooldridge Square to rally for gun control laws.
• The nationwide school walkout came on the anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre in 1999.
• Kelsey Tasch knows she’s far more likely to die in a car accident than a school shooting.
April 18, 2018
WASHINGTON - Two San Antonio congressmen on Tuesday demanded that Attorney General Jeff Sessions answer allegations that the Justice Department is improperly rejecting candidates for immigration judges and the Board of Immigration Appeals based on politics.
April 17, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Tax Policy Subcommittee, and Representatives Joaquin Castro (D-TX), Elijah Cummings (D-MD), and Don Beyer (D-VA) have questioned Attorney General Jeff Sessions about whistleblower allegations that the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) may be using ideological and political considerations to illegally block the hiring of immigration judges.
Issues:Immigration
April 17, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Tax Policy Subcommittee, and Congressmen Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Ted Lieu (D-CA), and David Cicilline (D-RI) introduced the Special Counsel Transparency Act, a bill that would preserve the important work of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation in the event that President Trump fires him.