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The undermining of the ACA was also debated on a bill (H.R. 6306) cleared by the taxwriting panel that would increase the annual HSA contribution limits to the sum of an annual deductible and out-of-pocket expenses permitted under a high-deductible health plan. Over 10 years, the legislation to increase HSA contributions would cost $15.3 billion, …

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John Bucy held a fundraiser with Congressman Lloyd Doggett for his birthday… Democrats have started to invest in these local races like John Bucy’s Texas House 136 campaign… Bucy entered the race because he believes that he can address the issues that make Texas a better State. According to Bucy if elected he would address …

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Located about 35 miles northeast of Austin, the facility was previously a jail and has long been the subject of protest and litigation from civil rights groups. In 2009, after a lawsuit exposed poor treatment of detainees, the Obama administration stopped incarcerating children at the center and converted it to a women’s lockup. However, activists …

Texas Observer: Williamson County Votes to End Contract with Detention Facility Holding Separated Mothers Read More »

One of the congressional districts under challenge in Texas was Congressional District 35, a heavily-Hispanic stretch running from Austin to San Antonio represented by Democrat Lloyd Doggett. The other was District 27, which was recently vacated by Corpus Christi Republican Blake Farenthold, who resigned amid a flurry of sexual harassment allegations. Doggett said it may …

SAEN: Justices’ ruling on political districts mixed, 5-4 decision mostly favors state’s stance Read More »

In a Gallup poll from April, 39 percent of Americans approved of the Republican tax cuts, while 52 percent disapproved of them. “I doubt there’s ever been a tax break bill in the whole course of American history that’s been this unpopular,” says Texas Representative Lloyd Doggett, the ranking Democrat on the Tax Policy Subcommittee …

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U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin, on the House floor this week compared a slate of bills targeting the opioid epidemic to the equivalent of using a garden hose to fight a wildfire. Congress is considering more than 30 bills to address what health experts have characterized as an ongoing crisis. More than 42,000 people died …

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U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, a Democrat who represents parts of Travis County, sent a representative from his office and issued a statement that called the new policy “horrifying.” “This policy change will likely mean deportation and a death sentence for far too many of these separated women and even children, who have fled domestic and …

AAS: Over 200 rally at Capitol against family separations at border Read More »

Several lawmakers, including U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, also spoke at the rally. “It strikes me as fundamentally wrong that we literally tear babes from the arms of their mothers,” Doggett said. “This kind of separation causes permanent scars on these children.” Read the full story here.

To Rep. Lloyd Doggett, Governor Greg Abbott’s recently completed roundtable on school safety had a familiar ring. It reminded him of President Trump’s “listening session” earlier this year with the survivors of the Parkland, Fla., school shooting. Trump’s session provided a top-of-the-fold photo op, but it only resulted in a single concrete effort to rein …

SA Current: Here’s Why Gov. Abbott’s School Safety Discussion Was Little More Than Show Read More »

Castro and and U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin, joined food bank CEO Eric Cooper to decry the proposed regulations, part of the 2018 Farm Bill, scheduled to be voted on by lawmakers in Washington later this week. Doggett said that “any program is open to misuse, but there are safeguards in place with SNAP to …

SAEN: Proposed rules for food assistance have critics up in arms Read More »