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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
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.”