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Today, Congressman Lloyd Doggett, Senior Member of the House Ways and Means Committee and Ranking Member of the Tax Policy Subcommittee, reacted to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report detailing the consequences of the GOP health care bill:
Race, not partisan advantage, was the key to changes made in the maps of three Texas congressional districts, including two in San Antonio.
That was the conclusion of a federal judicial panel that invalidated the three Republican-drawn districts. In a 2-1 ruling, it said the 2011 changes diluted minority votes in violation of the U.S. Voting Rights Act.
However, the order doesn't explain how the invalidated maps should be corrected, though the plaintiffs have said in past hearings that the districts might have to be redrawn to how they were before 2011.
The Ways and Means Committee endorsed language rolling back Obamacare fees on health insurers and certain pharmaceutical manufacturers, moving a step closer to advancing the House GOP's repeal bill.
Democrats on Wednesday used the House Ways and Means Committee's markup of legislation to repeal and replace ObamaCare to make another unsuccessful push for the panel to request President Trump's tax returns.
Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) offered an amendment for Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-Texas) requesting Trump's tax returns from the Treasury Department so that the panel could review them.
House Republicans on Wednesday began debating a plan to repeal Obamacare amid Democratic accusations that the GOP is jamming through a bill to fulfill a campaign pledge that will rip health care away from millions of Americans.
Just minutes after two House committees started debate, lawmakers began bickering about everything from the merits of striking the Affordable Care Act to how much time members should get to make opening statements to the president's tax returns and the cost of the health bill.
Democrats on Wednesday broadly blasted a proposed Obamacare replacement bill after learning the federal government would lose about $400 million in lost tax revenue over the next decade due to a sweet break for health insurers.
Rep. Sander Levin, D-Mich., said that the tax break related to executive pay underscores the fact that the Republican replacement bill is "the beginning of a huge giveaway to the very, very wealthy," and the end of insurance coverage for millions of lower-income people.
U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett said a GOP plan to repeal Obamacare will be reviewed by the Ways and Means and Energy and Commerce committees in the U.S. House on Wednesday.
The GOP bill that would potentially repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act will be taken up by two U.S. House committees on Wednesday, U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett said Monday.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, House Ways and Means Committee Democrats urged Chairman Kevin Brady to refrain from holding a full committee markup of any legislation to replace the Affordable Care Act without conducting a single hearing or obtaining a score from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office and any estimates from the Joint Committee on Taxation. Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Ranking Member of the Tax Policy Subcommittee, issued the following statement:
Reaction to President Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress split along predictably partisan lines, with Republicans praising what they described as the president's optimistic agenda, and Democrats saying "talk is cheap."
The Trump Organization is looking to expand its luxury hotel brand into dozens of the nation's major cities because that's where the tourists and business travelers are.
But they're also where the strongest opposition to Trump is.
From liberal havens like San Francisco to red-state hubs like St. Louis and Dallas, local officials have been putting the president's namesake company on notice that it may not be welcome.