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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.
Surely in a Nation as great as these United States, we ought to be able to achieve the objectives that the gentlewoman has so eloquently described to protect the retirement security and the health care security of those who have served our…
The problem was, as the gentleman will remember, that more than anything else, he did not like the fact that the President of the United States absolutely refused to join him in his determination to let Medicare wither on the vine. And…
Of course, Mr. Speaker, the gentlewoman referred to partisanship. There is nothing partisan about the fact that six or seven prior Secretaries of the U.S. Treasury, Republicans and Democrats, have basically said, ``Don't do this. This is…
Unequivocally, and then let these credit issues, many of which are important, some on which you and I agree with our Republican colleagues on and some we disagree on, let us get those disputes resolved in the appropriate manner, rather…
These are also the same Republican leaders who for decades have presented themselves to the American people as the party of fiscal prudence, of fiscal integrity. And now they are the ones who are engaged in this most imprudent act of…
That stigma of a bad credit rating has stayed with their family and prevented them from borrowing, when they had necessities that they needed for their family, for years. Does the gentlewoman have any idea of how long, if the Gingrich…
They may well take us, in the month of February, right to brink of fiscal disaster, to default on this Government's full faith and credit. And when they get there to the cliff, if they mishandle this whole issue of Government default the…
If the gentlewoman would continue to yield, I heard the Speaker of the House, who will have extraordinary power, announce last night on national television that his effort to dismantle Medicare this year has failed and that he is giving up…
I would ask the gentlewoman, is the thrust of this rule to give even more power to a Speaker who already has extraordinary power?
I believe this issue of ethics and special interest domination of this body and the Medicare cuts of $270 billion are closely interrelated. We must deal with both. We have a date for dealing with one of these next week. It is time to get a…
In other words, instead of letting all the ego of names stay right here in the Congress, so that it is the Joan Smith Act, this could be known as the Golden Rule-Gingrich Act to Cut Medicare or whatever one might want to call it.
I believe the gentlewoman was a supporter of a proposal by a colleague of ours, the gentleman from California [Mr. Miller], to actually suggest as a part of lobby reform that we identify the lobbyists that come up with these great ideas…
In other words, if they pick out the healthiest seniors and leave traditional Medicare with those that are the weakest and the sickest and lack good health, that need the most care, they cherry pick those, as the term is used in the…
I was wondering in that regard if the gentlewoman had the opportunity last night to see the reality check. She is aware of the need that this Republican leadership has to do a reality check, because sometimes we wonder where they came from…
I will yield on your time as long as you want to talk about this act of intimidation right here on the floor of the Congress.
I am troubled to hear of even the possibility that this budget might get as little as 4 hours of time. It has been described as a revolutionary budget, and I know as one of I guess what would be the chief revolutionaries you would have…
It does that. This is a question of whether you go even further than that bad old amendment that we passed back then.
The House, previously, by an overwhelming margin adopted the amendment of the ranking Member, the gentleman from Michigan [Mr. Conyers]. It does deal with trying to assure parity that we, for once, do not give all the advantages to the…
The section that is being deleted by the Cox amendment requires the foreign manufacturer to appoint an agent for service or process. The prior amendment of the gentleman from Michigan [Mr. Conyers] did not touch that issue at all. So what…
If the young women who are pictured on this box of Girl Scout cookies, if they get injured and they are scarred or maimed for life, will they get less unless the amendment is adopted than the corporate lobbyists who sent these boxes of…
A couple of questions that the gentlewoman's comments have raised. The first one is I believe every Member has received today a package of old fashioned Girl Scout cookies. Does the gentlewoman have any understanding of why these special…
This bill as written discriminates against the young child who has a limb severed or is decapitated, really, as a result of playground equipment, a senior citizen who is burned horribly in a fire with a defective heater, a student who is…
For every one of these so-called horror stories they tell us about, there is a real live horror story, just like you told us about at McDonald's.
Let me ask the gentleman if the lack of any data to support this bill is why these special interests are hiding behind the skirts and the little league outfits of the Girl Scouts of America, and whether you are aware of the fact that the…
Yet it is the kind of statistic that has been brought out every day this week and I guess we will hear it tonight and tomorrow also. It is totally and completely misleading, and this bill is going to do nothing about that statistic. Any…
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