Yesterday, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary (HHS) Xavier Becerra testified before the Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee on the Fiscal Year 2023 HHS Budget.  During the hearing, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) advocated for Houston’s Texas Medical Center as a potential site for the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Health (ARPA-H) that Congress authorized… Read more »

The New Democrat Coalition endorsed 22 bipartisan mental health care and substance use disorder bills, including Congresswoman Fletcher’s Collaborate in an Orderly and Cohesive Manner Act, H.R. 5218.  The New Democrat Coalition is the U.S. House of Representatives’ largest Democratic caucus, committed to pro-economic growth, pro-innovation, and fiscally responsible… Read more »

Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) led Members in a bipartisan letter to the House Appropriations Committee requesting $45 million for Texans wrongly denied disaster relief under a duplication of benefits rule.   “As you develop the Fiscal Year 2023 Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development Appropriations bill, we respectfully request that you appropriate at… Read more »

Washington, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) and Congressman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (TX-26) led a bipartisan letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) encouraging the agency to make a bipartisan decision to update its natural gas pipeline review process, in order to ensure stability in building out our country’s energy infrastructure.  Updates to… Read more »

Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) announced her office has successfully closed 8,000 cases for residents of Texas’ Seventh Congressional District.  Her office assists residents with matters before federal agencies, including obtaining benefits from Social Security, Veterans Affairs, and Medicare, as well as addressing matters before the Internal Revenue Service (IRS),… Read more »

Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) led a letter to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), advocating for updated and explicit guidance on illegal machine gun conversion devices, also known as auto sears, to reduce gun violence and protect communities. “In January 2022, a gunman shot three Houston police officers with a barrage of automatic gunfire using… Read more »

Yesterday, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) joined representatives from United Airlines to tour George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH), while discussing the ways IAH and Houston area airports will benefit from federal investments from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.  “The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) will invest $1.2 billion for… Read more »

Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) voted for the Relief for Restaurants and Other Hard Hit Small Businesses Act of 2022, to provide $55 billion in relief for restaurants and other businesses that continue to struggle to recover from the impacts of COVID-19.  Congresswoman Fletcher is a co-sponsor of the legislation.  “Houston is a food town,”… Read more »

Today, during a hearing with energy executives, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07), who represents the Houston, Texas, the energy capital of the world, participated in the Energy and Commerce’s Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing about the complex dynamics of the energy market and resulting high gasoline prices in recent weeks.  Witnesses included executives from six… Read more »

Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) will hold a virtual Community Conversation to discuss flood mitigation and recovery efforts in Texas’ Seventh Congressional District.  Community Conversations are town halls on a topic that Congresswoman Fletcher holds with special guests.  WHAT Virtual Community Conversation on flood mitigation and recovery WHO Congresswoman Lizzie… Read more »