Lloyd Doggett

Cathy McHorse has been a valued leader for most every initiative benefiting young children in Austin over the last decade, including important Travis County funding. Libby worked very closely with ...

On this Memorial Day, we pause to remember the extraordinary men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country. Let us honor them, and their families, by recommitting ourselves to the v...

A pleasure welcoming @utaustinsocialwork in Washington D.C. for a conversation around education policy, the vital role social workers play in our communities, and the hope for essential change, whi...

I introduced the TREE Act to protect our world's incredible forests, the lungs of our planet. We must take bold actions to stop people from profiting off of forest destruction and incentivize clea...

ICE has become another 3-letter word for LIE. Lies about immigrants as an excuse for racist policies, lies about dead citizens, lies about outrageous conditions at detention centers like Dilley. ...

As the semester comes to a close at our schools across Austin, let’s celebrate every student crossing the finish line. An investment in our students is an investment in our workforce and economy....

Meeting @azizabusarah and @maozinon — a Palestinian and an Israeli, who chose reconciliation and peace, though each carries devastating family loss from the same conflict. They’re traveling the wor...

Building a wall in Big Bend isn’t just waste of taxpayer dollars, it’s a threat to the lives of Texans. By disrupting the flow of the Rio Grande Valley, this project would increase the risks of d...

RFK can’t answer basic questions about health care fraudsters walking free at his and Trump’s direction. This regime uses fraud as an excuse to deny Americans basic care while the real criminals g...

While GOP claimed their healthcare cuts were only to combat fraud, it is actually the Trump regime that has been soft on fighting fraud. Today Health Secretary RFK was unable to answer my queries...

Our government should work for the people, but with a GOP Congress rubber stamping Trump’s erratic and dangerous agenda, Americans are worse off and our democracy is in crisis. My top responsibil...

Every Texan pulling up to a gas pump is paying the Trump War Tax. At the grocery store. At the airport. Even on Amazon, where 3.5% is being added to every purchase. This war isn’t free, it’s costin...

As Trump brought us to the brink of disaster, I spoke with @spectrumnews1tx , on the urgency of stopping a widening war and the need for a GOP Congress that is more than a doormat. With another u...

Joined KVUE this afternoon to discuss Trump’s alarming threats of war crimes and genocide. After boxing himself in a war he should have never started, Trump’s pronouncements now grow more and more ...

Last week, I spoke again about Trump continuing his reckless war into a second month with more death & destruction, a depleted weapons stockpile, a bill for $200B, soaring gas prices, and a repress...

I am pleased that our TSA officers are finally getting paid but let’s be clear: they should have never been put in this position. If Trump had the power to pay them all along, why not act promptly ...

I led colleagues, staffers, and art preservation experts on a tour of the Wilbur J. Cohen Building —called the “Sistine Chapel of New Deal art.” Just blocks from the Capitol, it houses one of the m...

Republicans love to talk about the debt, but all they do is spike it. Today they are holding a secret meeting with Trump regime on how to force through the first installment on financing his reckl...

I’m often asked to describe a typical day in Congress. Well, there really isn’t a typical day. While not all are as crowded as today, many parts of each day usually are. So fortunate that Central T...