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May 16, 2025
House conservatives are urging Attorney General Pam Bondi to be more aggressive against President Donald Trump’s political enemies.

May 14, 2025
What can you give a person who already has everything? The usual remedy is something of sentimental value. In Donald Trump’s case, Qatar has found the perfect blend — a $400mn jumbo jet for which he has indicated nostalgia in advance. Trump inspected the plane at Palm Beach airport a few weeks after he was sworn in. Long after he covers the aircraft’s fixtures in gold plating, he will associate his next Air Force One with Qatar’s ruling family. Or so they must hope.

May 12, 2025
“Rather than changing the law, Trump issues another press release that will offer consumers little or nothing. Begging Big Pharma to show some benevolence to the taxpayers and consumers, whom they continue to price gouge, will do nothing to assure access to affordable medications."
Issues:Healthcare

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Rep. Doggett with military service nominees
May 9, 2025
Austin, Texas—Today, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin) honored 13 Austin students whom he nominated for our nation’s military service academies. In a highly competitive selection process, these students have been admitted to the U.S. Military, Air Force, and Naval Academies.

May 8, 2025
What began with a chainsaw is ending in a whimper. Elon Musk’s looming exit from Washington brings the oddest chapter of Donald Trump’s presidency to an early close. By his own metrics, Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency has failed. Far from achieving his touted $2tn in savings, Doge may end up costing the taxpayer. Musk has meanwhile brought harm on Tesla, where he will soon return. Was there a hidden method to his madness?

May 8, 2025
Washington, D.C. – As Congress considers reconciliation legislation, Representatives Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) and Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), along with Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee led their colleagues in writing to Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, urging them to crack down on waste, fraud, and abuse in Medicare Advantage (MA) instead of forging ahead with cuts to Medicaid.
Issues:Healthcare

May 1, 2025
Washington, DC – Today, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) introduced the Stop Subsidizing Multimillion Dollar Corporate Bonuses Act to close a major loophole in current corporate tax law that uses taxpayer dollars to fund lavish pay packages. The bill would specifically end special tax breaks for publicly traded companies that deduct the cost of any multimillion-dollar bonus paid to executives.

April 23, 2025
Abe Foxman, the former Anti-Defamation League national director, offered pointed criticism of the Trump administration in a Holocaust Remembrance Day commemoration at the Capitol on Wednesday.

April 19, 2025
For the past four years, I have been delivering a series of lectures on the virtues of Stoicism to midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., and I was supposed to continue this on April 14 to the entire sophomore class on the theme of wisdom.

April 16, 2025
Washington, D.C.—Today, Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Ranking Member Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) and Health Subcommittee member Greg Murphy, M.D. (R-NC) made a bipartisan request to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) for a detailed investigation and report on the vertical consolidation of Medicare Advantage Organizations (MAO) and its effect on Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) calculations.
Issues:Healthcare