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May 5, 2021
In a significant move to combat the Covid-19 pandemic, the U.S. government agreed to support a controversial proposal to temporarily waive intellectual property rights for vaccines in a bid to increase global supplies of desperately needed doses.
May 5, 2021
Washington, D.C. – This morning, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) joined Amigos de Parque Zaragoza and Austin City Council District 3 to celebrate Cinco de Mayo and kick off the 90th Anniversary of Parque Zaragoza. The year-long celebration kicked off with today’s wreath laying ceremony at Parque Zaragoza to commemorate the victory of the Mexican Army and General Ignacio Zaragoza at the Battle of Puebla in 1862.
May 5, 2021
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Jack Reed (D-RI), along with U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-TX-35), today announced the introduction of a bill to stop business practices known as inversions – corporate deals that allow U.S. companies to shift their corporate citizenship from the United States to a low-tax foreign jurisdiction, while keeping their executives and headquarters in the United States. This is accomplished by merging with a foreign company that can be as little as one-fifth of the size of the U.S. corporation and results in large and permanent tax breaks. Unlike other tax loopholes that can be closed on a year-to-year basis, a tax inversion is a permanent change in a corporation’s structure.
Issues:Growing Our Economy
May 4, 2021
Pressure is mounting on the Biden administration to back a waiver for COVID-19 vaccine patents or take other action to share more doses with other countries amid a global surge in cases.
May 4, 2021
Local school districts are praising the governor for releasing $11.2 billion dollars in federal COVID relief funds.
May 4, 2021
The White House is changing how it distributes vaccines to states. President Biden set a goal of getting 70 percent of the population at least partially vaccinated by July 4, and Pfizer projects tens of billions of dollars in revenue from its coronavirus shot.
May 4, 2021
Kavita Tewari says she is haunted each day by the howl of ambulance sirens ringing through the streets near her home in New Delhi, India. For her and countless others in the South Asian country, the recent spike in coronavirus cases and deaths has been a crisis like nothing else she has experienced before.
May 4, 2021
Kavita Tewari says she is haunted each day by the howl of ambulance sirens ringing through the streets near her home in New Delhi, India. For her and countless others in the South Asian country, the recent spike in coronavirus cases and deaths has been a crisis like nothing else she has experienced before.
Issues:Coronavirus (COVID-19)
May 4, 2021
Local school districts are praising the governor for releasing $11.2 billion dollars in federal COVID relief funds.
Issues:Coronavirus (COVID-19)
May 3, 2021
TUESDAY on "The Source" — The use of telecommunication technology for health care — known as telemedicine — has steadily grown over the past decade and its adoption skyrocketed during the COVID-19 crisis, but its post-pandemic future remains in question.