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Another great Cinco de Mayo celebration with El Centro Cultural Hispano de San Marcos at Cuauhtemoc Hall with many longtime friends like Ofelia Vasquez-Philo and new friends like Mariana Zamora from Texas State.

Highlands High Senior wins Congressional High School Art Competition

During my recent trip to San Marcos, I stopped by the San Marcos Daily Record to discuss some of the issues we continue to face in Hays County. You can read about my efforts to spend our flood recovery dollars wisely and some of my other priorities in D.C. in the article below:

Doggett ready for challenges to come

By David Short, San Marcos Daily Record

Posted May 8, 2016

We shouldn’t let corporations ‘take the money and run’ when American families and small businesses pay the price for their price gouging and tax dodging. If the Supreme Court is right that ‘corporations are people too,’ then tax law should reflect it. American citizens who renounce their citizenship pay an exit tax; businesses who look to abandon our country should as well. I introduced the Corporate EXIT Fairness Act to be sure expatriating corporations pay the taxes they owe when they leave. This article below discusses the need for legislation like the bill I introduced:

In this article, Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times calls on Congress to pass my bill, the Stop Tax Haven Abuse Act, to combat the huge cost of cheating that depletes our Treasury and saps funds for important priorities. Corporate lobbyists, he writes, “get away with murder,” citing an Oxfam report stating “that each $1 the biggest companies spent on lobbying was associated with $130 in tax breaks and more than $4,000 in federal loans, loan guarantees and bailouts.” I will keep working to overcome Republican obstructionism that rigs that tax system and exacerbates inequality.

Equal Pay Day serves as a powerful reminder that the pay gap persists. Women still earn just 79 cents for every dollar earned by men – It’s past time for ?#‎EqualPay? for equal work.

On April 7th, my San Antonio staff participated in the ?#‎CardboardKidsSA? Child Abuse Prevention Campaign to help protect our city’s most vulnerable. In Congress, I remain committed to providing assistance to at-risk families, youth, foster children, and I authored the “Protect Our Kids Act,” which recently issued a report to guide the elimination of child abuse and neglect fatalities nationally.

Progress on Treasury Action Against Corporate Tax Avoidance

Washington— U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), a Senior Member of the House Ways and Means Committee, responded to Treasury's announcement of new guidance related to corporate inversions: