Month: October 2017

House Democrats say that President Trump has ignored their requests to work on legislation to tackle high drug prices about seven months after an Oval Office meeting. The lawmakers now plan to release the legislation during a press conference on Wednesday alongside Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas. Read the full story …

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Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-San Antonio, joins progressive political activist groups Oct. 4 to oppose the proposed Republican tax cut plan. Analysis reveals nearly 80 percent of tax savings will go to the top 1 percent.  Read the full story here.

“Apparently this massacre has moved even the NRA to acquiesce in one narrow bump stock provision in order to bump consideration of any other gun safety measures. One and done is not enough. Republicans want much more than their pending bill to loosen restrictions on gun silencers. They are still trying to silence full, fair, bipartisan debate on meaningful ways to make our families safer, such as closing the gun show loophole.” — U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin, in a written statement.

The federal government Friday told election officials in 21 states, including Texas, that hackers targeted their systems before last year’s presidential election. “There was an attempt to find a vulnerability on our agency’s public-facing website, which contains no voter information, but no vulnerabilities were found, according to DHS,” said Sam Taylor, communications director for the …

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