Hurricane Harvey, the category 4 storm that devastated the Gulf Coast in 2017, made landfall on a Friday night. By Saturday night, torrential rainfall engulfed the Texas coast, and League City, where the National Weather Service’s Houston/Galveston forecast office is located, was right near ground zero. Jeff Evans, the meteorologist-in-charge at the time, recalled the uncertainty of… Read more »
Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07), Congresswoman Val Hoyle (OR-04), and Congressman Joe Neguse (CO-02) led 35 of their House colleagues in sending a letter to the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies requesting that Congress reject President Trump’s attempt to gut the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Office of Oceanic and… Read more »
Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) spearheaded a letter joined by 72 of her House colleagues, to the House Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee requesting that Congress allocate funding for the U.S. Department of Justice’s Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR). The Trump Administration’s sweeping changes to our immigration… Read more »
The divide between Republicans and Democrats over the future of Medicaid was well encapsulated this week by two of Houston's congressional members during an all-night rumble that resulted in one Democrat calling U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw “a jerk.”
Crenshaw and U.S. Rep. Lizzie Fletcher, D-Houston, are both members of the House Energy & Commerce Committee that advanced a plan that will… Read more »
Today, during the Energy & Commerce Committee’s consideration of the Republican budget bill, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) introduced an amendment to stop Republican efforts to defund Planned Parenthood. Federal funding helps Planned Parenthood provide annual exams, cancer screenings, pap smears, STI testing, family planning, and other essential health care for women in… Read more »
A key House panel on Wednesday advanced legislation that includes a provision aimed at cutting off Medicaid funding from Planned Parenthood, a longtime goal of congressional Republicans.
The House Committee on Energy and Commerce, which oversees health care as part of its wide-ranging portfolio, voted along party lines to approve its portion of congressional Republicans’ tax cut… Read more »
Texas lawmakers are at the center of the debate on health care cuts as part of President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax and spending plan. This is happening as Texas hospitals and health care experts worry the proposed reductions in Medicaid funding will mean the most vulnerable patients, including children and those with disabilities, will lose coverage.
On Capitol Hill, the fight over… Read more »
Massive cuts to Medicaid will set up the nation for a health care disaster, said Democratic lawmakers opposing Republicans’ federal spending plans.
Rep. Frank Pallone (D-New Jersey), Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colorado), and Rep. Lizzie Fletcher (D-Texas) met online with Leslie Dach, the leader of Protect Our Care, a health care advocacy organization that works at the federal and state… Read more »
Houston Democrats are demanding answers from the Trump administration on how it will address major vacancies at the region's National Weather Service office ahead of hurricane season.
Why it matters: The push comes as NWS offices nationwide face funding cuts and staffing shortages amid President Trump's federal hiring freeze.
Driving the news: Reps. Lizzie Fletcher, Sylvia Garcia… Read more »
In October 2023, Otis went from a tropical storm with sustained 70 mph winds to a Category 5 hurricane with sustained winds of 165 mph in six hours before it slammed into Acapulco, Mexico, killing dozens of people.
That storm’s rapid intensification was fueled by increasing water temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico, which have made hurricanes harder to predict.
The National Oceanic… Read more »
