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November 17, 2022
Six House Democrats from Texas called on the Biden administration to exercise federal authority against GOP Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s declaration of an “invasion” at the U.S.-Mexico border.
November 16, 2022
CBS Austin spoke to United States Congressman Lloyd Doggett about the recent midterm elections, the upcoming legislative session, former President Donald Trump's 2024 presidential run announcement and more.
November 11, 2022
If – sorry, when – you went to cast your vote in the 2022 midterm elections, you may have considered the bond propositions in one of our local school districts, including Austin, Dripping Springs, Lake Travis, or Pflugerville. But there's one thing you may not know: If the federal government doesn't raise the ceiling of the Texas Permanent School Fund's $117 billion Bond Guarantee Program, millions of bond dollars will be consumed by high interest rates instead of school renovations. In place of a response from the U.S. Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service, lawmakers are hearing crickets.
November 4, 2022
Voting rights are still under threat in Texas, with the Texas Legislature creating brand-new barriers to the democratic process. But it was hardly more than 100 years ago that suffragists were rallying at Wooldridge Square for women's right to vote. On Friday, Oct.
Issues:Voting Rights
November 4, 2022
Open enrollment for health insurance on the Affordable Care Act marketplace began Nov. 1, and a trio of local political leaders joined staff at the Foundation Communities Prosper Center in South Austin to encourage Texans to get covered between now and mid-January.
Issues:Healthcare
November 1, 2022
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Chair of the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, released a statement regarding tonight’s release of the Calendar Year 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), which includes a modest expansion of dental coverage for Medicare beneficiaries—as Rep. Doggett has pressed for. He said:
Issues:Healthcare
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October 21, 2022
It's National Domestic Violence Awareness Month and as good a time as any to face the fact that the National Domestic Violence Hotline (based here in Austin) is currently experiencing the highest demand for its services in its 25-year history. As U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin, put it to us, the pandemic led to "a disturbing upswing in domestic violence." In fact, the hotline answered more than 400,000 calls, chats, and texts in 2021 – the most ever in one year.
October 20, 2022
Austin, T.X. – As Texas remains the most uninsured state and thousands of our neighbors lack health insurance, Wednesday, October 26, at 10 AM, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin), Chair of the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, will join Foundation Communities, Health Alliance for Austin Musicians (HAAM), Travis County Judge Andy Brown, and Council Member Vanessa Fuentes to share resources for Central Texans at the start of Open Enrollment, when families can sign up to get Affordable Care Act (ACA) coverage. Open enrollment for 2023 Health Insurance Marketplace plans runs from November 1, 2022 to January 15, 2023.
Issues:Healthcare
October 13, 2022
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin), U.S. Representative Jodey Arrington (R-Lubbock), and a bipartisan group of 24 other Texas members of Congress pressed the Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service to make a necessary update to a federal administrative exemption that allows Texas to continue to support cost-effective school construction in the state—and avert a potential November 2022 cutoff of funding which could cost school districts hundreds of millions of dollars.
September 30, 2022
Washington, D.C. – Ahead of the start of Domestic Violence Awareness Month on October 1st, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin), Chair of the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, spoke at the National Domestic Violence Hotline 25th Anniversary celebration in Washington, alongside Senator Bob Casey, Hotline CEO Katie Ray-Jones, and virtual remarks from President Joe Biden. After the anniversary celebration was delayed for a year due to the pandemic, this joyful reunion honored the many Hotline workers and volunteers in Austin and nationwide for their dedicated service and marked over six million contacts connected with life-saving and life-changing support.