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February 23, 2022
AUSTIN, Texas — Capital Metro (CapMetro) leaders, U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett and Nuria Fernandez, administrator of the Federal Transit Administration, met Wednesday to discuss the transit service's impact on the community and its future programming, Project Connect's progress and CapMetro's partnership with the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Transit Administration and congressional delegation.
Issues:Growing Our Economy
February 22, 2022
On September 19, 2019, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi introduced the Elijah Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act. The bill, known as H.R. 3, was a shot across the bow of an industry accustomed to congressional docility and deference. If passed into law, H.R. 3 would allow the federal government to negotiate drug prices on behalf of Medicare, a right assumed by the governments of every other major economy. The bill reflected an intra-party compromise and disappointed progressive Democrats who had pushed for deeper reforms. But H.R. 3 was no trifle. It put a hard cap on insulin prices and allowed Health and Human Services to negotiate prices on “at least” 50 of the 250 most expensive Medicare drugs.
Issues:Healthcare
February 22, 2022
AUSTIN, Texas — Editor's note: Catch this full report tonight on KVUE News at 6 p.m.
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