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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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“I have no illusions about the Iranian government, but both our military experts and international inspectors verify that Iran is in full compliance. The alternative to this successful diplomacy has always been war.” — U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin Read the full story here.
“Like some stormy sermon from Trump on the virtues of chastity, I believe these House Republicans today deserve a gold medal for hypocrisy.” – U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett during remarks on the House floor after Republicans proposed a vote on a balanced budget amendment Read the full story here.