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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.

Three days before world leaders formally unveiled an interim deal in early 2014 to slow the growth of Iran’s nuclear program, two House Democrats quietly met to start discussing how they could sell a final accord — if it ever came to fruition — to a skeptical Congress. It was Jan. 9, 2014, and Texas Rep. Lloyd Doggett and North Carolina Rep. David Price knew that without a sustained campaign from allies in Congress, it would be tough for President Barack Obama to persuade lawmakers to support the agreement over the strong objections of pro-Israel groups like the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

The San Antonio Missions have been beloved by residents and tourists for years, but thanks to recent upgrades, expansions and a pending World Heritage status, Southside San Antonio is well on it’s way to becoming an iconic and international destination.

The man who often led the city’s César Chávez March for Justice was in the hospital Saturday fighting cancer, and no Hollywood film this year gave the annual event an added boost of participants. […] a big crowd assembled at Guadalupe and South Brazos streets under cloudless skies Saturday morning and marched to the Alamo in honor of Chávez and his legacy of fighting for social change. Some marchers Saturday carried portraits of Chávez or signs and flags with the United Farm Workers logo. “César Chávez had a history of justice for everyone, equality for everyone, and I want to instill in my nephews, my daughter and my grandson that fighting for justice is the right thing to do,” Garza said. More than 80 students from KIPP San Antonio charter schools marched, some carrying signs with a Chávez quote: “You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read.” Some students affiliated with Somos MAS, an organization promoting Mexican-American studies programs, carried signs that read, “Remove the chancellor.”

Federal health officials offered a break Friday to uninsured Texans who could be facing fines for not obtaining health insurance by the Feb. 15 deadline established by the Affordable Care Act. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services created a special enrollment period for uninsured people who face fines when they file their income taxes this year so that they do not face higher fines next year. This special enrollment will be only for people in states with federally run marketplaces, like Texas.