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May 23, 2023
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin) spoke on the House Floor to oppose Republicans’ latest attack on public health and environmental protections, S.J. Res. 11, which would invoke the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to block the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from mitigating the harmful air quality impacts of heavy-duty engines.
Issues:Protecting Our Planet
May 19, 2023
AUSTIN – After cycling to City Hall as part of Austin’s Bike to Work Day, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin) today announced $5 million in federal funding he secured in direct appropriations to begin closing the gap between the Southern Walnut Creek Trail, for which he previously obtained construction funds, and the Northern Walnut Creek Trail. These funds will provide a safe and dedicated cycling and pedestrian path, connecting dozens of Austin neighborhoods, numerous parks, schools, businesses, and employment centers.
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.