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Lloyd Doggett

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Lloyd Alton Doggett is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Texas's 35th congressional district since January 3, 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously represented Texas's 10th congressional district from January 4, 1995, to January 3, 2013. Throughout his career, Doggett has focused on issues such as healthcare, education, and economic justice, advocating for policies that support working families and promote social equity.

Jan 17, 2019

Mr. Speaker, let us send a strong, bipartisan message, not just to the White House, but to the Kremlin, by rejecting this favoritism toward Putin. Let's vote today as Members of the United States Congress, not the Russian Duma. Mr. McCAUL…

Congressional Record · 2019-01-17
Jan 9, 2019

Madam Speaker, Trump and his apologists are so very good at breaking things. It is just fixing them they can't seem to find an answer to. This underlying lawsuit is little more than a conspiracy between a criminally-indicted Texas…

Congressional Record · 2019-01-09
Dec 20, 2018

Mr. Speaker, millions of American families will be enjoying the bounty of our great Nation at this very special time of the year without realizing that their tax dollars are subsiding Saudi war crimes in Yemen. It is estimated that every…

Congressional Record · 2018-12-20
Dec 20, 2018

Mr. Speaker, the voters told them: The party's over. Go home. But before going home, they want to go big with another big, irresponsible national debt-busting bill. Republicans are struggling to stuff just a little more silver in their…

Congressional Record · 2018-12-20
Dec 12, 2018

Mr. Speaker, atrocities that are supported with American tax dollars. They fear that a bipartisan majority of this House would reject what has become a wretched stain on our Nation. Last month, this same group of Trump enablers buried…

Congressional Record · 2018-12-12
Dec 12, 2018

Mr. Speaker, what cruel irony that this rule, dealing, in part, with too much food in America, will deny food to millions in Yemen. In that remote corner of the world, of which most Americans know very little, 85,000 children have already…

Congressional Record · 2018-12-12
Dec 12, 2018

Mr. Speaker, as we approve this Asia Reassurance Initiative Act, it is also very important that we provide reassurance to Americans that our values are not being abandoned. With one deranged tweet after another, many people, both here and…

Congressional Record · 2018-12-12
Nov 14, 2018

Mr. Speaker, in this rule, the wolves bare their fangs-- not American wolves, but Saudis, who are willing to sever heads, dismember opponents, and bomb the innocent. This rule is truly a wolf in wolf's clothing. By blocking a vote on…

Congressional Record · 2018-11-14
Nov 14, 2018

Mr. Speaker, after taking the standing Trump approach of denying everything--saying he accepted the lies and the denials of the Saudis--Mr. Trump dodged again by saying, ``I am going to leave . . . it up to Congress.'' And so what is this…

Congressional Record · 2018-11-14
Nov 14, 2018

Mr. Speaker, I look forward to a Congress with the courage to end support for these crimes, to cease American sales to the Saudis, and to do something to hold Mr. Khashoggi's killers accountable. But to say, wait until a much-improved new…

Congressional Record · 2018-11-14
Sep 28, 2018

Mr. Speaker, today's sorry's sequel is as phony as the original Republican tax sham. It comes from an administration for whom truth is a stranger, clocked in, by one analysis, at 7\1/2\ lies, on the average, per day. But even for such an…

Congressional Record · 2018-09-28

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