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April 30, 2021
Washington, DC – Following a meeting this afternoon with United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai and White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Jeff Zients, this joint statement is issued by all the participating House Members - Congressmembers Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Jesús García (D-IL), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), and Andy Levin (D-MI):
April 28, 2021
Washington, D.C. – This afternoon, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) responded to Governor Abbott’s announcement that he would finally release $11.2 billion of the federal funds passed in relief packages and which have been available since March:
April 28, 2021
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and the state’s top two legislative leaders committed Wednesday to sending $11.2 billion in federal stimulus money to schools, a victory for education advocates clamoring for the funds.
April 28, 2021
AUSTIN, Texas — On Wednesday, state leaders announced the release of $11.2 billion in new federal funding to help public schools address student learning losses and costs that arose during the COVID-19 pandemic.
April 28, 2021
As President Joe Biden made his case for ambitious investment and tax plans, Texans in Congress were split on how they felt about what they heard.
April 28, 2021
Texas’s top state leaders announced Wednesday they are releasing $11.2 billion out of nearly $18 billion available in federal pandemic relief funding that has been dedicated for the state’s public schools.
April 27, 2021
Good news that President Biden is appointing my former legislative assistant who later became a national trade expert, Celeste Drake, to be our Nation’s first Made in America Director for the Office of Management and Budget. Her hard work, whip-smart brain, and compassionate heart will serve all Americans well. I look forward to working with her once again in this important new role.
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April 27, 2021
Washington, D.C. – This afternoon, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) led all fellow Texas Democratic Members in urging the Biden Administration to utilize renegotiation of its Medicaid Section 1115 waiver as an opportunity to achieve significant reductions in the unacceptably high number of uninsured Texans. This follows the Biden Administration rightfully rescinding an illegal Trump Administration premature approval for an unprecedented ten years of the current waiver, which does not even expire until September 30, 2022.
Issues:Healthcare
April 26, 2021
Washington, D.C. – This morning, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Chair, led 50 bicameral Members of Congress in a request to HHS Secretary Becerra and Defense Secretary Austin for the unredacted COVID-19 vaccine and therapeutic contracts. Representative Doggett was joined in this request by Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), and dozens of House colleagues. For months, Members have sought transparency regarding over $20 billion of taxpayer money spent on the research and development, manufacturing, and procurement of COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics. The former Trump Administration gave Big Pharma these billions in secret agreements, with the full terms of these deals still undisclosed.
April 26, 2021
WASHINGTON — Texas’s population grew by nearly 4 million people over the last decade, more than any other state in the nation, and the state is on track to gain two seats in Congress as its national influence continues to expand.