Month: October 2019

Twenty million families fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid every year, but members of Congress say many others give up because the form is too complicated. A Republican from Tennessee and a Democrat from Alabama say college isn’t for everyone, but they want to make sure students who want to enroll can …

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“This president has come to believe that he can get away with anything when it comes to trampling our democracy,” U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, an Austin-area Democrat, said. “Now he has gone to a foreign power and asked them to intervene to help him get reelected — a foreign power to whom he denied military …

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At Thursday’s grand opening of its office in the heart of San Antonio’s West Side, the U.S. Census Bureau’s Deputy Regional Director Dennis Johnson, as well as federal, state and local officials echoed what Congressman Lloyd Doggett said: “Everyone needs to know, you don’t have to fear the census.” “The census workers don’t work for …

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U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin, told the American-Statesman, “President Trump’s latest whiny tantrum — complaining that this well-justified impeachment inquiry is in any way comparable to the systemic, brutal torture of mostly African Americans by lynching — represents only another attempt to distract attention from his admitted wrongdoing. It won’t work.” Read the full story …

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