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May 18, 2023
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representatives Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) and Katie Porter (D-Calif.) and U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), and Bob Casey (D-Pa.) sent a bipartisan letter to Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Xavier Becerra and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, calling on CMS to strengthen its proposed rule on nursing home ownership transparency to benefit patients. The lawmakers are urging CMS to incorporate the provisions they recommend and implement this long overdue rule.
Issues:Healthcare
May 18, 2023
Global temperatures are likely to exceed 1.5C above pre-industrial levels for the first time in human history within the next five years, the World Meteorological Organization has said in its latest annual assessment.
Issues:Protecting Our Planet
May 16, 2023
Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin), a senior member of the Ways and Means Committee and House Budget Committee, issued the following statement after the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released an updated estimate of the 10-year cost for extending the expiring individual provisions of the 2017 Trump-GOP Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which would add about $3 trillion to our Nation’s budget deficit:
May 15, 2023
Last week the ReAwaken America Tour, a Christian nationalist roadshow co-founded by the former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn, rolled up to the Trump National Doral Miami resort. Two speakers who’d appeared at other stops on the tour, the online streamers Scott McKay and Charlie Ward, were jettisoned at the last moment because of bad publicity over their praise of Hitler. (“Hitler was actually fighting the same people that we’re trying to take down today,” said McKay, not inaccurately.) But as of this writing, the tour’s website still includes McKay and Ward, along with Eric Trump, as featured speakers at an upcoming extravaganza in Las Vegas.
May 15, 2023
The IRS recently announced its plans to revise a federally set cap to a program that guarantees bonds for Texas school districts. The program is reaching its $117.3 billion maximum and is threatening to cost districts millions more in interest to issue debt for bond projects.
May 12, 2023
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Ranking Member of the House Ways & Means Health Subcommittee, led a group of more than 70 Members in urging the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to use its existing authority under the Clean Water Act to protect our drinking water and the environment by strengthening its regulation of microplastic pollution.
Issues:Protecting Our Planet
May 12, 2023
CelLink, a manufacturing company that supplies the electric vehicle industry, has been given a conditional commitment from the Department of Energy for a $362 million loan designed to help the company build out its planned $130 million facility in Georgetown.
Issues:Technology
May 12, 2023
A capacity crunch facing a popular school bond guarantee program in Texas has been resolved by an Internal Revenue Service proposed regulation that boosts the limit to about $218 billion.
May 11, 2023
Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin) spoke on the House Floor to oppose Republicans’ so-called “Secure the Border Act,” which does nothing to fix America’s immigration system but would wreck the economy, destroy the asylum system, and criminalize visa overstays.
Issues:Immigration
May 10, 2023
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin) released the following statement applauding the IRS-issued notice of intent to update the outdated federal limit on the amount of bonds that the Texas’ Permanent School Fund (PSF) can guarantee: