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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
January 11, 2023
Washington, D.C. – Just now, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin) released the following statement regarding the announcement today from Health and Human Services (HHS) releasing key dates for the first year of the Inflation Reduction Act’s Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program:
Issues:Healthcare
January 10, 2023
Last summer, Congress passed overdue drug pricing reforms to help older adults afford their medications by empowering Medicare to negotiate some drug prices, limit drug corporation price spikes and cap out-of-pocket costs.
Issues:Healthcare
January 9, 2023
Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Tex.) said the Republican measure that would rescind $80 million in funding for the Internal Revenue Service should be renamed the “Protect Donald Trump and His Tax-Cheating Cronies Act.”
January 7, 2023
Washington, D.C. – This evening, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin), released the following statement regarding the close of the longest speaker contest since before the Civil War:
January 6, 2023
It's been two years since the US Capitol came under attack by thousands of pro-Trump insurrectionists, the biggest attack on American democracy in our lifetimes.
January 5, 2023
The House of Representatives made dubious history Thursday, failing on the 11th ballot to elect a speaker as an acrimonious stalemate that has paralyzed the chamber dragged on. That's the most ballots cast in this normally pro forma election since before the Civil War.
December 31, 2022
Almost all American taxpayers end up reporting positive income to the Internal Revenue Service each year. That wasn't the case for former president Donald Trump and former first lady Melania Trump in four of the six years between 2015 and 2020.
December 30, 2022
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), a senior member of the House Ways and Means Committee who led efforts for the release of Trump’s tax returns since February 2017, released the following statement: