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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!"
Issues:Healthcare
March 30, 2022
Give Koch Industries credit for consistency: It’s aiding the foes of democracy at home and abroad.
March 29, 2022
WASHINGTON — All politics is local is an adage that has been especially true when it comes to earmarking federal money for local projects, a practice that just made a comeback after a decadelong hiatus, with millions of dollars benefiting Austin and Central Texas.
March 28, 2022
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Chair of the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, announced today that he has secured $1.6 million in federal appropriations to fund critical infrastructure for economic expansion in Buda in a new bill just signed into law by President Biden.
March 22, 2022
Austin, TX – U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin), Chair of the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, announced today that he has secured $700,000 in federal appropriations for the new Austin Community College-Austin PBS Educational Media Center in a bill just signed into law by President Biden.
March 22, 2022
Austin, TX – Tomorrow, March 23, at 10:30 AM—on the 12th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act (ACA)—Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi and U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett, Chair of the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, will hold a press conference and discussion with Dell Medical School students and residents about the impact of the ACA on delivering affordable health care to millions of Americans who would otherwise be uninsured, and on the future of health care and health care policy.
Issues:Healthcare
March 17, 2022
Washington, D.C. – This afternoon, the House of Representatives just passed H.R. 7108, “The Suspending Normal Trade Relations with Russia and Belarus Act,” on a 424-8 vote. This legislation would end normal trade relations with Russia and Belarus, as Rep. Doggett first proposed on February 25, just one day after Russia invaded Ukraine. The bill now awaits Senate action.
March 17, 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, support legislation introduced today to suspend normal trade relations with Russia and Belarus. The bill will be considered shortly on the floor of the House.
March 17, 2022
WASHINGTON—The House easily passed legislation Thursday to end normal trade ties with Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, moving quickly to approve the measure after President Biden announced his support last week.