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“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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The Early Childhood Studies Center at San Antonio College has helped Michael De La Cerda stay on track to finish his pre-nursing degree next semester. “I’ve never felt like my daughter was in better care,” De La Cerda told SAC faculty and U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett at a news conference Friday while holding Caroline, 4. “Everyone here treats her like family, treats me like family.” . . . College administrators and Doggett both said they worried for the program’s future because President Donald Trump’s proposed budget would have eliminated the program.

“Like a Trump University degree or a Republican health care bill, the gap between what they say (the plan) does and what it actually does should be what ends it. While professing concern for companies offshoring profits and jobs, they create huge new incentives to ship even more American jobs abroad and reward those with …

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“They didn’t have a deal; they agreed to agree, details to be worked out later, that they would exclude the wall funding from any agreement they would reach concerning the dreamers,” said Texas Congressman Lloyd Doggett, who’s been at the frontlines of DACA’s defense. ”What we need is to let democracy work, and have the majority of members of the House determine this, not just the majority of the Republican Caucus.”

“At a Veterans Summit at San Antonio College on Saturday, Congressman Lloyd Doggett fielded questions about staffing problems, long wait times, and claims backlogs at the Veterans Administration.

In his remarks to a room full of vets and their families, U.S. Representative Doggett shared an update about the Choice Act. It’s a law that allows veterans to seek private or community healthcare if they can’t get a timely appointment with the VA, or if they live more than 40 miles away from a VA facility.”

Today’s ruling by the US Supreme Court means that Texas congressional districts will remain exactly the same for the 2018 election.  I plan to file for reelection in November to continue serving CD 35, which I have represented for just over 4 1/2 years.  I ask for your continued support as I resist the Trump …

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“Rep. Lloyd Doggett’s office released the following statement: The court unanimously found that the Republican-drawn congressional map was intentionally discriminatory. What Republicans did was not just wrong, it was unconstitutional. Since the U.S. Supreme Court will have the final say, this extended struggle is not yet over. Unless the Supreme Court rules otherwise, I plan …

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