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Washington, D.C.—Today, U.S. Representatives Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) and Lloyd Smucker (R-PA) introduced the Vaccine Injury Compensation Modernization Act to provide much-needed updates and improvements to the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) and shift pending COVID-19 vaccine claims from the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP) to the VICP. This legislation would override the Administration’s recent announcement that COVID-19 claims will remain in the CICP through December 31, 2024.

WASHINGTON — Today, Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin) and Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-San Antonio), together with many colleagues, including the entire Texas Democratic delegation and the chairs of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, Congressional Black Caucus, and Congressional Asian-Pacific American Caucus, urged the Biden administration to assert its authority over federal immigration policy and foreign relations to investigate Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star border operation and pursue legal action to stop the extraordinary cruelty against migrants detailed in recent reports from the San Antonio Express-News, the Houston Chronicle, and the New York Times.

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representatives Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin) and Joaquin Castro (D-San Antonio) urged Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Secretary Michael Regan to reject the Texas Railroad Commission’s application for primacy enforcement of the Class VI underground injection control (UIC) well program under the Safe Water Drinking Act.

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-TX-37), U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) teamed up to introduce a bicameral resolution designating July as Plastic Pollution Action Month, citing extreme concern over the plastic pollution crisis that is threatening human health, dumping tens of millions of pieces of plastic in the ocean, and killing hundreds of thousands of animals every year.