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Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas), a member of the Ways and Means Committee, warned that the push for a new round of tax cuts could be a ploy to divert attention from the impeachment process, which is rapidly gaining momentum in the House. “I would expect this would just be another distraction from the fact that …

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Each winter for about seven years, Mary Apostolou hung extra thick curtains to try to keep the cold out as much as possible at her former Chalmers Courts apartment, even though they darkened the room. With cinder block walls that lacked insulation and no central heating or cooling system, the 1930s-era East Austin public housing …

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“I think the first thing on your holiday shopping list for yourself and your family: health care protection. If you get that, there will be good reason to give thanksgiving joy just for that very reason,” U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin) said. Read the full story here. ****************************************** News Credit Publisher: KVUE Author: KVUE Staff …

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Since taking office in 2017, President Trump and his administration have sought to remove — and in some cases, destroy — many of the guardrails of precedent and tradition surrounding the conduct of the executive branch. On Thursday, the House of Representatives will vote on whether to erect a series of guardrails of its own, …

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Thursday’s U.S. House vote formalizing an impeachment investigation of President Donald Trump divided Central Texas lawmakers along party lines, with all six Republicans voting in opposition and the region’s sole Democrat, U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett of Austin, supporting the resolution. Doggett dismissed Republican complaints about the impeachment process. “Our vote approves a fair, open process …

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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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