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Washington, DC – Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) unveiled bicameral legislation today to repeal a massive tax giveaway for a small group of wealthy taxpayers that Republicans included in the coronavirus relief bill. The legislation would do away with provisions in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act that the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) estimates will reduce government revenue by $160 billion over ten years, and that would overwhelmingly benefit wealthy taxpayers like hedge fund managers and real estate speculators.

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representative Doggett (D-TX), Chairman of the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, Representative Susan Wild (D-PA), member of the House Committee on Education and Labor, and Representative Cheri Bustos (D-IL), member of the House Appropriations Committee, introduced legislation to require a special enrollment period for COVID-19.

Washington, D.C. – This morning, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Chairman of the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, and U.S. Representative Kathy Castor (D-FL), member of the Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee, led over one hundred fifty members of Congress in sounding the alarm about the importance of maintaining a law to ensure that states do not kick people off Medicaid amid this devastating pandemic. The maintenance of effort (MOE) provisions included in the Families First Coronavirus Response Act protect vulnerable families from having their Medicaid coverage stripped during this crisis by states seeking to reduce access to care. Some Republicans have made repealing MOE a top priority in the next relief package.