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February 22, 2022
Austin, T.X. – Tomorrow, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin) will join community leaders and Foundation families to officially open Foundation Communities’ newest and largest Prosper Center with a press conference at one of the busiest times of the year for the organization—tax time—and share how Central Texans can get free help right now to file their returns and claim the second half of their expanded Child Tax Credit and other credits, including the full Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC).
Issues:Growing Our Economy
February 22, 2022
Austin, T.X. — U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin) issued the following statement, following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the President’s announcement of U.S. sanctions:
February 20, 2022
Washington, D.C. — U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin) issued this message, to be read at the Stand With Ukraine event:
February 18, 2022
The Internal Revenue Service has reversed course and no longer plans to close its Austin facility.
Issues:Growing Our Economy
February 17, 2022
AUSTIN, Texas — The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced Thursday it will halt the planned 2024 closure of its Austin Tax Processing Center.
Issues:Growing Our Economy
February 17, 2022
Washington, D.C. — Just now, following advocacy from U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), and Congressmen Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-N.J.-09), the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced that it will halt the planned 2024 closure of the IRS Austin Tax Processing Center. This center is one of three remaining IRS facilities which process paper returns. Maintaining the Austin facility will better allow the agency to support the workforce needed to process 10 million outstanding paper returns from last year, as well as new returns from this season.
Issues:Growing Our Economy
February 16, 2022
AUSTIN, Texas — On Wednesday, Capital Metro will break ground on a new MetroRapid line.
Issues:Growing Our Economy
February 16, 2022
EAST AUSTIN, Texas - The Project Connect team held a ceremony on Wednesday to celebrate the groundbreaking of MetroRapid Pleasant Valley Route.
Issues:Growing Our Economy
February 3, 2022
A San Antonio physician on the front lines of caring for patients suffering from the lasting effects of COVID-19 testified before a congressional committee Thursday, urging lawmakers to ensure long COVID-19 patients can get the care they need.
Issues:Coronavirus (COVID-19)
February 3, 2022
Congress needs to make it easier for people who are disabled by long-term Covid-19 conditions to access Medicare benefits, advocates and medical doctors told lawmakers at a hearing Thursday.
Issues:Coronavirus (COVID-19)