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February 8, 2023
Washington, D.C. – After Texans across the state voted for increased school construction funding this November, an outdated federal limit being reached right now is driving up financing costs, diverting taxpayer dollars away from building new classrooms and renovating outdated facilities and towards servicing higher interest rates. To meet this issue with action, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin) has now introduced the Keeping Texas School Construction Costs Down Act (H.R. 32), joined by co-lead Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-Lubbock).
February 7, 2023
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin), Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, released this statement at the conclusion of President Biden’s 2023 State of the Union:
January 30, 2023
Washington, D.C. – Following U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin) being named the Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee in the 118th Congress, he releases the following statement:
January 28, 2023
Harold H. Brown, who as a teenager overcame racial prejudice in the American South to become an Army Air Corps fighter pilot during World War II — a member of the famed Tuskegee Airmen — only to be downed over Austria and face a lynch mob of vengeful villagers, died on Jan. 12 in Huron, Ohio. He was 98.
January 27, 2023
Washington, D.C. – This afternoon, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin) announces that Austin is receiving $54 million in federal funding this year through the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA). He releases this statement:
Issues:Growing Our Economy
January 27, 2023
Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) will serve as the ranking member on the Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, the full committee’s ranking member Richard Neal (D-Mass.) announced Friday.
January 25, 2023
Travis County Commissioners approved a $35 million contract with nonprofit Mobile Loaves & Fishes on Jan. 24 that will go toward housing people experiencing homelessness.
January 17, 2023
A Texas Permanent School Fund bond program this month rejected an Austin school district request to act as its guarantor for school bonds the district scheduled to sell Wednesday, in its first of several planned sales over the next six years to pay for projects voters approved in a $2.4 billion bond package in November.
January 12, 2023
Washington, D.C. – As tax season begins and Foundation Communities opens next week for free, unbiased tax preparation assistance for Central Texans, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin), senior member of the House Ways and Means Committee, will join Foundation Communities, Council Member José Miguel Anwar Velásquez, and community leaders to urge Central Texans to file with free help, ensuring they claim all the tax credits for which they are eligible—like, for many Austin working parents, the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC).
January 12, 2023
Washington, D.C. – As Central Texas faces a public health crisis of opioid misuse and drug-related overdose deaths, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin), senior member of the House Ways and Means Committee, will join Mayor Kirk Watson, Judge Andy Brown, Austin Public Health (APH), and more to announce new federal funding to break ground on an Austin substance use and misuse education and prevention project.
Issues:Healthcare