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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.  

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Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin) released the following statement applauding the IRS-issued notice of intent to update the outdated federal limit on the amount of bonds that the Texas’ Permanent School Fund (PSF) can guarantee:


May 9, 2023

The Travis County Commissioners Court and U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett celebrated federal dollars allocated to address community needs and assist local nonprofit organizations at a Monday press conference.


May 4, 2023

Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas), a longtime champion of reforming higher education student tax benefits, has introduced HR 3000, bipartisan legislation to make Pell grants non-taxable and help community college students better access the American Opportunity Tax Credit (AOTC).


May 3, 2023

WASHINGTON, May 3 (Reuters) - Democratic U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday urged the U.S. Trade Representative and State Department to eliminate investor-state dispute settlement provisions from current and future trade deals and to intervene on behalf of Honduras against a U.S. company's nearly $11 billion claim against the country.