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 »
Washington, D.C.— Co-Chairs of the American Canadian Economy and Security (ACES) Caucus Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07), Congressman Mark Amodei (NV-02), Congressman Marc Veasey (TX-33), and Congressman Buddy Carter (GA-01) introduced a bipartisan resolution Reaffirming the deep and steadfast United States-Canada partnership and the ties that bind the two countries in support of economic and... Read More »
Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) hosted a telephone town hall with more than 1,200 of her constituents, responding to their questions and concerns about recent actions and orders from the Trump administration. She was joined by Assistant Democratic Leader Congressman Joe Neguse, Chair of the House Democratic Caucus’ new Rapid Response Task Force and Litigation Working Group, and Megan Uzzell,... Read More »
Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) voted against House Republicans’ blueprint to guide Congressional action on budget-related legislation this year that calls for at least $1.5 trillion in government spending cuts, a resolution Establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2025 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 20... Read More »
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) led all Democrats in the Texas Delegation, February 14, in a letter to National Institutes of Health (NIH) Acting Director Matthew J. Memoli, M.D., M.S., requesting that the NIH withdraw changes to funding caps for research grants to allow lifesaving medical research to continue throughout the state. “Texas is home to multiple world-class me... Read More »
Politicians in Hurricane-battered Houston were less than enthused Thursday evening after news broke of the Trump administration's plan to cut the vast majority of staff at a federal office tasked with disaster recovery. First reported on by the New York Times, U.S. President Donald Trump is reportedly planning to fire as many as 84% of the workers employed by The Office of Community Planning and D... Read More »
On February 14, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) and Congresswoman Julie Johnson (TX-32) led 12 of their Democratic colleagues in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Region 6 in a letter to EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin urging a reconsideration of plans to terminate EPA employees that are critical to addressing environmental concerns that affect children, maintaining a reliable pe... Read More »
