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November 22, 2022
The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for the Internal Revenue Service to release former President Donald Trump’s tax returns to a Democratic-led House committee.

November 22, 2022
If you're planning on traveling by plane this Thanksgiving -- you're one of 4.5 million others who are expected to fly. Austin-Bergstrom International Airport is already seeing folks flood the airport -- and it's only going to get busier as we get closer to Thursday.

November 22, 2022
The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for the Internal Revenue Service to release former President Donald Trump’s tax returns to a Democratic-led House committee.

November 21, 2022

AUSTIN, Texas — On one of the biggest holiday shopping weeks, the Texas Public Interest Research Group has released its 2022 "Trouble in Toyland" report.

This year, the group was able to purchase 30 different types of recalled toys from online sellers, like Facebook Marketplace and eBay.

Some of the toys are stuffed animals, action figures, activity balls for infants, musical toys, bath toys and riding toys for toddlers. Many of these items posed choking hazards.


November 21, 2022
AUSTIN (KXAN) — Congressman Lloyd Doggett and advocacy group warned Texans of the potential dangers in some children’s toys Monday. 

November 18, 2022
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Chair, and Trade Subcommittee Chair Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) led 24 members in urging the Biden Administration to assure continued progress in improving trade data transparency—and, specifically, to reject a current proposal to end public disclosure of import data for goods arriving to the United States via ocean transport. This would make trade data even less accessible, making enforcement of human rights legislation like the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act much more difficult.

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. 28, the city unveiled a new historical marker at that park once marred by heaps of city garbage – that monument is one of a couple hundred roadside markers like it across the country to elevate little-known stories of the struggle for equality.