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Austin, TX – Today, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) released the following reaction to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) finally implementing the safety law he authored and passed in 2018 to require commercial hot-air balloon pilots to hold medical certificates when flying paying passengers:

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Chair, and Trade Subcommittee Chair Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) led 24 members in urging the Biden Administration to assure continued progress in improving trade data transparency—and, specifically, to reject a current proposal to end public disclosure of import data for goods arriving to the United States via ocean transport. This would make trade data even less accessible, making enforcement of human rights legislation like the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act much more difficult.

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Chair of the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, released a statement regarding tonight’s release of the Calendar Year 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), which includes a modest expansion of dental coverage for Medicare beneficiaries—as Rep. Doggett has pressed for. He said:

Austin, T.X. – As Texas remains the most uninsured state and thousands of our neighbors lack health insurance, Wednesday, October 26, at 10 AM, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin), Chair of the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, will join Foundation Communities, Health Alliance for Austin Musicians (HAAM), Travis County Judge Andy Brown, and Council Member Vanessa Fuentes to share resources for Central Texans at the start of Open Enrollment, when families can sign up to get Affordable Care Act (ACA) coverage. Open enrollment for 2023 Health Insurance Marketplace plans runs from November 1, 2022 to January 15, 2023.

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin), U.S. Representative Jodey Arrington (R-Lubbock), and a bipartisan group of 24 other Texas members of Congress pressed the Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service to make a necessary update to a federal administrative exemption that allows Texas to continue to support cost-effective school construction in the state—and avert a potential November 2022 cutoff of funding which could cost school districts hundreds of millions of dollars.

Washington, D.C. – Ahead of the start of Domestic Violence Awareness Month on October 1st, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin), Chair of the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, spoke at the National Domestic Violence Hotline 25th Anniversary celebration in Washington, alongside Senator Bob Casey, Hotline CEO Katie Ray-Jones, and virtual remarks from President Joe Biden. After the anniversary celebration was delayed for a year due to the pandemic, this joyful reunion honored the many Hotline workers and volunteers in Austin and nationwide for their dedicated service and marked over six million contacts connected with life-saving and life-changing support.