On Monday, a group of Democratic members of Congress from Texas issued a letter urging the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to enforce Medicaid’s free choice of provider requirement and require the State of Texas to reinstate Planned Parenthood as a qualified Medicaid provider. Rep. Lizzie Fletcher led her colleagues in issuing the letter, which was signed by Reps. Lloyd… Read more »

On Wednesday, Rep. Lizzie Fletcher testified in front of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and urged the committee to include the Coastal Texas Study’s recommendations in the Water Resource Development Act of 2022 (WRDA) and to consider additional expansions of the Port of Houston.  Fletcher is a former member of the committee and was involved in the 2020… Read more »

This week, the House of Representatives will consider two bills that would significantly curtail domestic offshore oil and gas exploration. H.R. 1941, “the Coastal and Marine Economies Protection Act,” and H.R. 205, “the Protecting and Securing Florida’s Coastline Act of 2019” reflect a lack of understanding about where our energy comes from and how we solve the climate crisis. In the… Read more »

Houston has always been a place of big ideas. Perhaps more important, it is a place where those big ideas become realities. We need that now. In Washington, policymakers and lawmakers are talking about big ideas—ideas that address the tremendous opportunities and challenges we face across the country and around the world. And there is no conversation more important than the one about… Read more »

U.S. Rep. Lizzie Fletcher, D-Houston, continued to chart a moderate course on the Democratic Party’s top issues Saturday at her first town hall as a member of Congress, staying firm in her position that the Affordable Care Act should be built upon, not scrapped, and that the Green New Deal should not be “the only part of the conversation.” The wide-ranging town hall at Frostwood… Read more »

The freshman Congresswoman gives an inside scoop on her day-to-day in Washington, D.C., and how she spends her time back home in Houston. Read more »

WASHINGTON - At a closed-door meeting of House Democrats last week, liberal firebrand Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez warned that colleagues who backed a GOP amendment on new gun background check legislation could find themselves on a “list” facing primary election challenges in 2020. Freshman Houston Democrat Lizzie Fletcher did not join the 26 Democratic defectors on the Republican… Read more »