A group of Democrats are calling on the Trump administration to investigate the Texas immigrant detention center where Laura Monterrosa, a young woman from El Salvador seeking asylum, reportedly remains suicidal after a female guard allegedly sexually assaulted her for four months. In the letter, addressed to the Department of Homeland Security, Texas Democratic Congressmen …
U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin, had a different take. “This horrible, unending loss of precious lives must not be ignored by this Republican-controlled Congress, owned lock, stock, and barrel by the NRA,” he said in a statement. “There have been 376 mass shootings since the beginning of 2017, and the Parkland massacre marks the 18th …
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U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin, found the speech less provocative than usual for Trump, but no more encouraging about where he is leading the country. “There is just a totally amazing gap between his tweets and his teleprompter readings,” Doggett said. “He’s full of love and unity and not the usual racist rant.” But, Doggett …
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Austin Democrat Lloyd Doggett, a member of Brady’s tax-writing committee, pointed the finger back. “The cause of any government shutdown now will be the same as in the past-Republican intransigence,” he said. “If they continue to insist upon an entirely partisan bill that excludes Dreamers, they should not expect Democratic votes. I want the government …
The Senate is back and the House will return next week after regrouping over the winter recess and preparing to tackle another tough year ahead. Between midterms and a long legislative agenda, lawmakers have a lot to figure out. So it’s no wonder that their New Year’s resolutions revolve around policy issues and the election, …
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The rush to enact the tax bill was designed to mask — as a break for the middle class — what is in fact a $1.4 trillion package of benefits for key donors and lobbyists, the richest members of Congress, President Trump, his family and other families like his. Read the full story here.
Republican leaders on Wednesday agreed on a revised plan to cut taxes that would lower the corporate rate from 35% to 21% and drop the top individual rate for the richest Americans to 37%, according to GOP senators and others briefed on the deal. House and Senate lawmakers met Wednesday on a conference committee to …
Republicans touted their tax reform plans at a perfunctory joint House-Senate conference committee meeting Wednesday afternoon, as Democrats thundered against the bill and decried the uselessness of the event. Democrats tried to slow the GOP bill’s advancement via amendment. Rep. Richard Neal of Massachusetts, for instance, tried to offer an amendment to postpone the conference …
One worry people facing life threatening emergencies shouldn’t have is the cost of an ambulance. Yet a recent article in the Washington Post highlighting a study by Kaiser Health News notes the wildly varying charges of taking an ambulance and the emergence of venture capital firms in owning ambulance services, of which there are 14,000 …
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On MSNBC this week, Lloyd Doggett sounded a tone of resignation while trying to puncture the seeming inevitability of Republicans’ legislation to overhaul the American tax system. “I view the bill as a giant political life preserver for Republicans who’ve been unable to get anything else done this year and haven’t given a lot of …
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