“President Trump raids military dollars to waste on an unnecessary wall that he falsely claimed Mexico would pay for,” said U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-San Antonio and Austin. “This is just more of his dangerous, un-American abuse of presidential power — overriding Congress and the people, rejecting true security needs. Always taking from the deserving …
Publish Date: August 29, 2019 1:43 pm Author: Chelsea Moreno Source: KXAN A local organization is hosting lawmakers, local officials and gun control advocates for a rally at the Texas Capitol on Saturday to honor lives lost to gun violence and to “demand common-sense gun reform,” according to a press release. The Texas chapter of Moms Demand …
Community Discussion with Rep. Lloyd Doggett Saturday, August 17 2 PM at Patsy’s Cafe
Democratic U.S. Reps. Lloyd Doggett of Austin and Veronica Escobar of El Paso also spoke at the event held at a Texas AFL-CIO auditorium. Doggett called the lawsuit “collusion … between an indicted Republican attorney general and the Trump administration to destroy the protections that so many Texans and so many Americans rely on.” Read …
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Survivors of domestic violence and women’s advocates used a Tuesday evening town hall to urge elected officials to reverse a disturbing local trend. An overflow crowd at the Mennonite Fellowship Sanctuary listened as women shared stories of domestic abuse and offered suggestions on how to remedy what they called a growing crisis. Democratic U.S. Reps. …
“This long-overdue legal action is needed to keep this bad president from setting a bad precedent,” Ways and Means member Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) said Tuesday. “It should not take a court order to affirm that ‘shall’ means ‘shall.’ But Trump will do what it takes to delay the inevitable, hiding his tax returns as …
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Congressman Lloyd Doggett, a Democrat representing portions of Austin and San Antonio, said he did not see value in adding additional troops to border operations. “We ought to be sending the public health service, the crisis that exists at the border is a humanitarian crisis,” Doggett said in a Friday interview after Abbott’s announcement. Read …
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Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas, said the financial impact of climate change is one of the biggest issues facing his state. In 2017, 16 weather events cost the state about $313 billion in relief aid, he said, and one obstacle is getting information to the public. “The Trump administration always prefers political fantasy to science and scientific …
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Saying that recent emails show Gov. Greg Abbott’s “fingerprints” were all over a botched attempt to review the citizenship status of Texas voters earlier this year, two Democratic congressmen said Friday that they will press for a sharper U.S. House investigation into the matter. Twice in the past 2½ months, the Committee on Oversight and …
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In a pair of late night tweets, James Comey attacked Bill Barr for “sliming” the Justice Department and Trump for inappropriately claiming “treason.” Lawrence O’Donnell discusses the statements with Rep. Lloyd Doggett and Rick Stengel. Watch the full clip here.