Lloyd Doggett

Well, here we are in the fourth year of the reign of the king of debt, self-styled.

It remains illegal to negotiate on two-thirds of the drugs that are covered by Medicare. Prescription drug price gouging, enabled by government-approved monopolies without any restraint, is not limited to one disease or one class of drugs…

They have had eight years to present an alternative to Obamacare, and what do we have? Republican nothing care.

A single-payer Medicare for All program would be a highly effective means of accomplishing this goal.

The system is unsustainable and unacceptable.

A great nation should not have millions without access to quality health care, yet we have over 30 million Americans that lack health insurance.

Today's naysayers don't have any plan at all.

We cannot transform health care overnight. We will need to phase it in.

Medicare provides our seniors with guaranteed cost-effective coverage that they can always count on.

We need strong Federal enforcement since local governments have imperfect tools and often have been stifled by narrow-minded State legislatures. No American's civil rights should depend upon their ZIP Code. Don't stand in the doorway…

It is joining 21 senior Defense officials who identify climate change action as a way to address a major national security challenge. President Trump continues to block meaningful environmental action by clogging the corridors of power…

Hasn't the analysis of the passthrough provisions, $400 billion of passthrough changes that Republicans made in their tax law, shown that about half of all that went to those who were making over a million dollars a year?

So the claims that outsourcing would be stopped, just like the claims that all this repatriated money would come back and we would see the spurt in investment, they just have proven to be false, in fact, haven't they?

I appreciate the support that you have offered for the legislation that I have to try to stop outsourcing.

We have gotten back a little less than a fourth of what was promised.

President Trump promised $4 trillion would be coming back in repatriation.

There have been so many false claims made about this Trump tax law.

If the goal of the opportunity zone was to encourage investment in order to provide benefits for the lowest income categories, I think it is difficult to evaluate yet.

I represent a number of pockets of poverty from the west side of San Antonio to the north end of Austin, and I am eager to see relief that helps those neighborhoods.

The claims that outsourcing would be stopped, just like the claims that all this repatriated money would come back and we would see the spurt in investment, they just have proven to be false, in fact, haven't they?

We have gotten back a little less than a fourth of what was promised.

There have been so many false claims made about this Trump tax law.

I do find it troubling that he has not come to respond on some of these issues, and all the more so because of what happened yesterday.

It looks like you are going backwards.

With all due respect, is that your response to why you cut the Department of Transportation by 20 percent and why you reduced the amount of total resources from $1.5 trillion last year to $1 trillion this year?