Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) led 30 of her Democratic colleagues in a letter to U.S. Department of Interior Secretary Doug Burgum urging him to resume cleaning up orphaned wells across the country as authorized and funded in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). In June 2021, Congresswoman Fletcher introduced the bipartisan Revive Economic Growth and Reclaim Orphaned Wells (R... Read More »

House Democrats are raising fresh concerns about how the Trump administration's funding freeze could impact cleanup of abandoned oil and gas wells. Why it matters: The IIJA allocated nearly $5 billion to remediate orphaned wells, a huge chunk of change for thousands of potentially toxic and methane-emitting sites across the country. Driving the news: In a letter to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum o... Read More »

Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07), Congressman Marc Veasey (TX-33), and Congressman Lloyd Doggett (TX-37) led their colleagues in the Texas Democratic Delegation in a letter to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Acting Director Dr. Susan Monarez expressing concern over the measles outbreak in Texas and across the country. The lawmakers requested an urgent, detailed report ... Read More »

The Brief Texas Democrats are calling for a detailed report from the CDC about how the agency is assisting with a measles outbreak in West Texas. The letter comes as the CDC is facing workforce and funding cuts and Texas deals with its worst measles outbreak in 30 years. The state health department reported 279 as of Friday. WAHINGTON - A group of Texas congressional members are calling on the Cen... Read More »

Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) visited the HOPE Clinic for a roundtable discussion with health care providers about the Trump administration and Congressional Republicans’ proposed cuts to the Medicaid program. "People across our district, our state, and our country rely on Medicaid for essential health care. Today, I met with health care providers to talk about what cutting the prog... Read More »

Many shoppers know about the so-called pink tax – a needless markup on products marketed to women, even if those products are essentially the same, just cheaper, when sold to men. Personal care items such as razors, deodorants and shampoo fall into this category. But shoppers may be less aware of “pink tariffs”, or taxes on imported goods labeled as “women’s items”. Pink tariffs are one reason wom... Read More »

Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) and Congresswoman Brittany Pettersen (CO-07) reintroduced the Pink Tariffs Study Act, which would require the U.S. Department of Treasury to conduct a study on potential gender bias and regressivity within the U.S. tariff system and report the findings to Congress. The reintroduction of this legislation follows reports that the U.S. tariff schedule plac... Read More »

Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) voted against House Republicans’ partisan spending bill for Fiscal Year 2025, which reduces funding for critical government programs and projects that people in Texas’ Seventh Congressional District rely on, including at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. “At a time when people across Texas’ Seventh Congression... Read More »

The future of Army Corps projects along the Texas Gulf Coast, like the overhaul of flood control systems around Houston and the widening of the Houston Ship Channel, are in question after House Republicans on Tuesday passed a stopgap funding bill to keep the government open through September. Their bill calls for reducing the Army Corps of Engineers' construction budget by $1.4 billion, a 44% cut.... Read More »

Even tariffs on imported clothing can have a gender bias. A bill from two Democratic representatives would investigate the “pink tariff,” which encompasses the higher tax rates on imported items classified as women’s goods. The bill, reintroduced this session by Reps. Lizzie Fletcher of Texas and Brittany Pettersen of Colorado, would ask the Treasury Department to study these “pink tariffs” and th... Read More »

Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) released the following statement upon the news of the death of Congressman Sylvester Turner (TX-18): “I join my fellow Houstonians, my colleagues in Congress, and people across our country in mourning the sudden loss of my friend and colleague, Congressman Sylvester Turner. I am heartbroken and devastated by the loss of this exceptional Houstonian and e... Read More »

Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) released the following statement after President Donald Trump addressed a Joint Session of Congress: "Tonight, President Trump put forward a vision for our country that undermines the Constitution and the Congress. What we heard tonight from President Trump was not presidential. His address continued a pattern of lies intended to divide Americans. Despi... Read More »

After a series of severe hurricanes hit the Texas Gulf Coast and other U.S. coastlines last summer, the Federal Emergency Management Agency was nearing its limits. The agency was so strained, said Michael Coen, then its chief of staff, that it had to bring in officials from other federal agencies to help coordinate relief efforts in what would be the third costliest hurricane season on record. Now... Read More »

Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07), Congresswoman Nikema Williams (GA-05), and Congressman Emanuel Cleaver (MO-05) introduced a two-bill legislative package seeking to assist heirs’ property owners seeking assistance with disaster relief, clearing title, and estate planning. Heirs’ property is family land inherited without a will or legal documentation of ownership. The first bill in the... Read More »

Each spring, the Congressional Art Competition provides high school students across the country, including those in Texas’ Seventh Congressional District (TX-07), represented by Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher, with a unique opportunity to have their artwork displayed in the U.S. Capitol. This nationwide contest, established in 1982, recognizes and encourages artistic talent among young Americans wh... Read More »