Jul 23, 2014
Mr. Speaker, I yield myself 1 minute to join in the accolades for our chairman, Dave Camp of Michigan, and to particularly recognize the key role he played in helping to create our child abuse commission, which is currently holding…
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.
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Jul 17, 2014
Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to approving this permanent Republican tax break for Twinkies. That is exactly what this bill does. I think we should encourage charity, but also fiscal responsibility and accountability. This bill fails…
Jul 17, 2014
The same Republicans that are advancing this include a group that have characterized as welfare Pell grants, school breakfast programs, senior nursing care programs. They want to lump all that as welfare, and they say we just can't afford…
Jul 15, 2014
The amendment says, if you renounce your citizenship and go abroad to avoid paying taxes, don't come with your hand outstretched to ask other taxpayers who stayed here and worked and contributed to the success of America--those that are…
Jul 15, 2014
I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, today really demonstrates the House Republican fear of even trying. Their guiding strategic principle in this Congress is to do nothing and to be sure that no one else can do anything; and…
Jul 15, 2014
Thank you for your good work on this amendment. This will be the third bill that we have amended on it. Mr. Chairman, seldom has a day gone by recently without a headline about some American company that is running for the border to avoid…
Jul 11, 2014
Mr. Speaker, Republicans say they would like to help, but they claim we just don't have enough resources for medical research in order to address cures for Alzheimer's, cancer, Parkinson's, multiple sclerosis, and other dread…
Jul 10, 2014
Mr. Chair, I thank my colleague. I have been pleased to join her in adding the language of this type to each appropriation bill that has thus far been approved in the House. I am surprised that there could be any opposition to it today…
Jun 19, 2014
Madam Chair, that is very good to hear. I join in supporting this amendment as a coauthor of it. Multinational corporations that do business around the globe have an even greater interest in world order and in national security. They…
Jun 19, 2014
This Congress has a constitutional obligation to approve military action before any President decides to shoot first and ask questions later. A 12-year-old resolution, enacted in the aftermath of 9/11, should not provide a basis for…
Jun 12, 2014
Mr. Speaker, it is clear that Republicans would dig our country into another trillion dollars of debt, borrowing from the Chinese, the Saudis, whoever will lend it to us. They have already approved borrowing $614 billion for business tax…
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