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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced it is awarding San Marcos an additional $7.7 million for disaster recovery from the 2015 floods.
The department's Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery Program doles out money for communities in the most impacted areas with significant unmet recovery needs.
The American-Statesman asked the state's two U.S. senators and the six congressmen representing Austin and surrounding areas whether they were troubled by reports this week that President Donald Trump revealed highly classified information in a meeting with top Russian officials. Only three people responded. Not responding: U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas; U.S. Reps. Michael McCaul, R-Austin, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee; Roger Williams, R-Austin; Bill Flores, R-Bryan; John Carter, R-Round Rock.
U.S Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin, and other dignitaries presented a house key and gifts to Claudia Mejia, a single mother with three children. The hospital housekeeper and her daughters will be the first tenants of a new home built on a SAHA-owned property at 24 Gus Garcia on the city's West Side.
WASHINGTON - By the topsy-turvy standards of Donald Trump's White House, the day started quietly.
Few outside Trump's inner circle on Tuesday had reason to believe it would end with the firing of FBI Director James Comey, perhaps the biggest Washington shakeup since 1973, when President Richard Nixon fired Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox.
Trump had only two public meetings on his daily schedule: An intelligence briefing at 10 a.m., followed by a closed-door meeting with National Security Adviser H. R. McMaster.
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas), Ranking Democrat on the House Ways and Means Tax Policy Subcommittee, issued the following statement after President Trump fired FBI Director James Comey:
Democratic U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett joins a "sanctuary cities" law protest Monday outside the Governor's Mansion.
WASHINGTON — The House on Thursday narrowly approved a bill to repeal and replace major parts of the Affordable Care Act, as Republicans recovered from their earlier failures and moved a step closer to delivering their promise to reshape American health care without mandated insurance coverage.