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A packed program of speakers included U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, Mayor Ivy Taylor, Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff, Alamo Director Becky Dinnin, U.S. Rep Lloyd Doggett, San Antonio Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller, Mexican Consul General José Antonio Larios and Spanish Consul General Enric Panés. The 18th-century Spanish colonial missions and the Rancho de las Cabras in Wilson County were collectively listed as a World Heritage Site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in July at its annual convention in Bonn, Germany. About 10 minutes into the program, Jewell unveiled the official plaque, lifting away the colorful zarape draped around it with help from Mardi Arce, superintendent of the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park. Taylor called the designation a “validation of both our deep pride in our heritage here and our most ambitious aspirations for our community.” “Instead, the ongoing recognition, promotion and preservation of these special places will be the true culmination of the years invested in successful collaborations, the decades spent promoting and restoring the missions, their fields, their acequias and their churches,” Taylor said. In addition to the inscription ceremony, Saturday’s activities at the mission included an archaeology festival outside the mission walls with hands-on demonstrations in corn grinding and adobe brick-making.

Student debt is a looming black cloud affecting many students in America. According to the U.S. Department of Education, student loan interest rates have gone down about one-third of a percent in the last year from 4.66% to 4.29%, which according to Blake Ellis with CNN Money Investigations, is still crippling forty million Americans.
U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett attended a student press conference at the Highland Campus Sept. 4, to speak about H.R. 1260, The American Opportunity Tax Credit Act of 2015, a bill which he is both the author and sponsor.

Doggett addressed the concerns of NARFE members, including issues such as Medicare, Social Security, Government Pension Offset, Federal Employees Health Benefits, salaries, cost of living raises and the data breach. Open Season is the time for federal employees, retirees and survivors to make changes to their Federal Health Insurance.

Congressman Lloyd Doggett Friday will honor the people who rushed toward deadly flood waters on Memorial Day Weekend while everyone else rushed away. Among those receiving Doggett’s praise, officials with the Hay’s County Sheriff’s Office, local fire departments, EMS and city and community leaders.

The Children’s Shelter of San Antonio is teaming up with Texas congressman Lloyd Doggett to kick-off a national campaign.

As our students head back to school, I have been thinking about trust. Families trust our schools to offer compassion and care, while students trust that teachers will help in mastering the knowledge and skills needed to succeed. And I am thankful that so many place significant trust in me to represent our children, our schools and our community in Washington.

Going to college is important–and expensive. Thanks to a combination of decreased public funding and inflation, the cost has been steadily rising. While the cost of attendance in Texas is lower than the national average, it is getting more expensive as well. This often makes attending college a challenge for lower-income students. Fortunately, that’s where Austin Democratic Congressman Lloyd Doggett comes in.

Medicare patients must be told when they’re in “observation” status but not admitted in a hospital, under legislation expected to be signed into law by the president.