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April 8, 2022
"Waterloo Records has served as a cornerstone – as a venue, a hub, and so much more – of the Austin music scene since the days when Austin City Limits was a fairly new show and the Austin Opry House was taking up the mantle of the Armadillo World Headquarters. Personally, my favorite memories came a little later in its story: from combing through the shelves and shelves of CDs with my daughters and Libby, shopping for Christmas gifts for family and finding some gems for ourselves in the process, before heading over to Waterloo Ice House with our finds.
April 7, 2022
After the White House warned that the war in Ukraine is heading into a protracted new phase, a bipartisan group of lawmakers urged President Biden on Wednesday to untangle red tape that is delaying the arrival of refugees, saying their “life and future” may depend on it.
April 7, 2022
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) led a bipartisan effort, joined by Ukraine Caucus Co-Chairs Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Andy Harris (R-MD), Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), and Mike Quigley (D-IL), along with Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY), Chair of the House Judiciary Committee, and Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Chair of the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship, and Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI), to improve the burdensome bureaucratic immigration processing hurdles too many families are facing. Signed by 65 lawmakers, the letter proposes a set of simple actions—strengthening the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation, increasing the availability of doctors for immigration medical checks, speeding inter-agency communication, waiving application fees—that the Administration can and should do today.
April 7, 2022
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett, Chair of the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, and U.S. Representative Earl Blumenauer, Chair of the House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee, released the following statements following belated Senate passage today of legislation to strip Russia and Belarus of their status of Preferred Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) and reauthorize human rights Magnitsky sanctions, and of the Doggett-Blumenauer ban on Russian oil. Today also marks six weeks since the invasion began, and tomorrow will mark six weeks since Reps. Doggett and Blumenauer first introduced their original sanctions legislation. After this morning’s Senate approval, the House just approved the updated package, sending it to the President’s desk for his signature—and constituting the very first passage of sanctions in Congress since the invasion began.
April 6, 2022
AUSTIN, Texas — Austin Bergstrom International Airport is calling on federal officials to help ease challenges that are causing passengers to have negative experiences.
April 5, 2022
AUSTIN, Texas — U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett is asking federal officials to expedite a request from the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport director to increase the number of agents as the facility contends with an ongoing passenger surge.
April 5, 2022
The embarrassing failure I witnessed at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport on the morning of March 28 sends the message to our global visitors that this city is unprepared for the rapid expansion at our doorstep.
April 5, 2022
Weeks before what U.S. Congressman Lloyd Doggett called an “embarrassing failure” at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, the airport’s director urgently sought more federal agents to bolster operations as officials anticipated a passenger surge, documents obtained by the American-Statesman show.
April 5, 2022
AUSTIN, Texas — U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett is asking federal officials to expedite a request from the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport director to increase the number of agents as the facility contends with an ongoing passenger surge.
April 1, 2022
On March 21, Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin, announced that he has secured $2 million in federal appropriations for the new Central Texas Community Mental Health Surveillance Collaborative, a project that aims to create an interactive map of mental health data similar to local COVID dashboards. The project, one of 10 chosen from a community project funding request, is being designed by Texas State University's Dr. Melinda Villagran and Dr. Alessandro De Nadai. Villagran says when the pandemic hit in March 2020, she was struck by the simple visual language of COVID dashboards: "There's a lot of data available, but very few of us have the bandwidth to look at it, find it, understand it, and use it every day. I found it to be a visual way to make sense of what was happening. And I thought, man, we need one of these for everything!"
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