Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) voted against the Senate Amendment to Republicans’ Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 budget reconciliation bill, H.R. 1, which they are calling the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025.” In May, Congresswoman Fletcher voted against the House’s original version of the legislation. The Senate has since modified the bill, but its overall goals and effects are the same:... Read More »

Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) and Congresswoman Marilyn Strickland (WA-10) reintroduced the Reproductive Health Travel Fund Act to establish a grant program to help ease the financial burden of women and families being forced to travel, sometimes long distances, to access abortion care. The reintroduction comes as abortion is now banned in 19 states and as threats to reproductive ca... Read More »

Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) released the following statement after the Supreme Court released its decision in Medina, Director, South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic. “Every American deserves access to high quality, non-judgmental reproductive health care at the place of their choosing. Today’s Supreme Court decision is extreme... Read More »

Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) reintroduced the Ensuring Women’s Right to Reproductive Freedom Act with Congresswoman Marilyn Strickland (WA-10), Congressman Jamie Raskin (MD-08), and more than 128 original co-sponsors. Her legislation, which passed the House in the 117th Congress, protects the constitutional right to travel between the states, including for the purpose of getting re... Read More »

Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) released the following statement after President Trump ordered military strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities: “President Trump’s decision to order direct military action in Iran without authorization from Congress violates the Constitution and continues a deeply troubling pattern of actions that undermine our system of government and our efforts to... Read More »

A Texas lawmaker is among those who sent a letter to the U.S Treasury Secretary urging the department to examine how President Donald Trump’s tariffs disproportionately cost women more than men. U.S. Reps. Lizzie Fletcher, a Houston Democrat, and Brittany Pettersen, of Colorado, sent a letter this past week on behalf of the Democratic Women's Caucus to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent citing resea... Read More »

This week, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) and Congresswoman Brittany Pettersen (CO-07) led 19 of their Democratic Women’s Caucus colleagues in sending a letter to Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent urging an investigation into potential gender bias and regressivity within the U.S. tariff system. The letter follows reports that the U.S. tariff schedule places higher import taxes on women th... Read More »

Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) released the following statement after Minnesota state legislators Representative Melissa Hortman, Senator John A. Huffman, and their spouses were shot in their homes in what appears to be a politically motivated assassination. “The murder of Minnesota Representative Melissa Hortman, a former state House speaker, and her husband Mark and the shooting of... Read More »

Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) voted against H.R. 4, a bill to cancel $9.4 billion in previously enacted and congressionally passed federal funding. This bill would make permanent some DOGE spending cuts, including cuts to NPR, PBS, and foreign aid. Many of these sweeping cuts are from agencies that DOGE is illegally dismantling, with cases pending in courts. Now, despite Elon Musk’s... Read More »

Over 100 Democratic lawmakers are pushing for Congress to restore $535 million for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in the current federal budget. The two-year advance funding for public radio and television has been removed from the budget package by congressional Republicans, along with an additional $60 million for the public broadcasting interconnection system, which disseminates conten... Read More »

Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) announced she has submitted 15 projects to the House Appropriations Committee for consideration through the Community Funded Project process. “I was pleased to work with community partners to request more than $76 million in congressional funding for our district. If awarded, each of the Community Projects I have submitted would make a positive impact i... Read More »

Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07), Congressman Josh Gottheimer, Congresswoman Judy Chu, and Congresswoman Sharice Davids led 93 of their House colleagues in sending a letter to Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy that urges the Trump administration to unfreeze funding for Title X family planning that Congress had previously set aside for the program. The effort come... Read More »

Nearly 100 House Democrats are calling on Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to restore tens of millions of dollars in federal family planning grants to more than a dozen organizations that have been frozen for more than two months. In a letter to Kennedy sent Friday and seen first by The Hill, 95 lawmakers said the organizations that had their Title X funding frozen o... Read More »

Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07), Congresswoman Judy Chu (CA-28), and Congresswoman Sharice Davids (KS-03) led 143 of their House colleagues in sending a letter to Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Subcommittee leaders urging Congress to reject the Trump administration’s efforts to halt federal support for Title X family planning and to fund the program, allowing ... Read More »

Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) led 27 of her House Democratic colleagues in sending a letter to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) leadership, expressing their concerns about the public safety risks that staffing shortages at the National Weather Service Center Weather Service Units (NWS CWSU) are creating at the 21 Air Route Traffic Control Centers (ARTCC) across... Read More »