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WASHINGTON - Texas Democrats in Congress remain confident about the 2018 elections despite a stinging loss in a Georgia congressional race last week that highlighted a string of deflating defeats.
A remark by U.S. Rep. Filemon Vela, D-Brownsville, that only an "idiot" would believe Democrats can recapture the House under Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi was an isolated eruption in a delegation resolute about maintaining united opposition against Trump administration policies.
By Robert Pear and Thomas Kaplan, New York Times
June 22, 2017 Updated: June 22, 2017 8:22pm
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans, who've promised to repeal the Affordable Care Act for seven years, took a major step toward that goal, unveiling a bill Thursday to make deep cuts in Medicaid and end the mandate that most Americans have health insurance.
For the 10th time in the last several months, Republicans on Wednesday blocked a Democratic resolution offered on the House floor requesting President Trump's tax returns.
The measure was defeated on a procedural vote of 227-188 that fell largely along party lines.
The resolution was offered by Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas), the top Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee's tax policy subcommittee.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas), Ranking Democrat on the House Ways and Means Tax Policy Subcommittee, reacts to Speaker Ryan's address on Republican tax plans:
"I am an AmeriCorps member, and I will get things done."- AmeriCorps Pledge
SAN ANTONIO - Members of the San Antonio Food Bank and Feeding Texas joined Rep. Lloyd Doggett to urge members of the Texas Congressional Delegation to reject President Donald Trump's budget proposal.
The proposed budget threatens to dramatically increase the number of Texans at risk of hunger. It would cut $193 billion from the food stamp program.
Doggett said the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program is a lifeline for children, seniors, veterans and people with disabilities who are facing hard times.
Trump administration officials will huddle Friday as part of a push to issue an executive order addressing rising drug prices, but few are expecting its punch to match the president's often blistering rhetoric about the pharmaceutical industry.
President Donald Trump made drug costs a prominent issue during his campaign and beefed up his criticisms after the election, saying in January that the industry was "getting away with murder."
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Ranking Member of the Ways & means Tax Policy Subcommittee, is offering a "privileged resolution" that would require the House of Representatives to immediately request the President's tax returns and those of his businesses. His resolution, which must be considered within two legislative days, would also postpone consideration of any tax reform legislation until the President's tax returns are obtained.
Hundreds of people gathered at Austin City Hall on Saturday to demand an independent investigation of President Donald Trump and his associates' possible ties to Russia.
The event in the sweltering heat was one of more than 100 other such "March for Truth" demonstrations scheduled throughout the country and world on June 3.
Rallygoers called for an independent commission to investigate Russian ties, adequate resources for nonpartisan congressional investigations, the release of Trump's tax returns and prosecution of any confirmed crimes.
Deep in the heart of America's top emitting state for greenhouse gases, reaction to President Trump's decision to drop out of the Paris climate accord broke largely along ideological and party lines.
Trump announced Thursday that the U.S. would begin a process of withdrawing from the Paris deal signed by more than 190 countries. The U.S. made a non-binding pledge in 2015 to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 26 to 28 percent from 2005 levels by 2020.