The Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County will receive $5 million in federal grants to make improvements to its Westheimer Road corridor bus route. METRO officials will celebrate the award at a Feb. 22 news conference with U.S. Rep. Lizzie Fletcher, who recommended the project for federal funding. The funding will help METRO implement its BOOST… Read more »

Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) joined Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff and Small Business Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman in visiting with community leaders and a diverse group of local small businesses to highlight the historic comeback of small businesses under the Biden-Harris Administration.  The group met with small business owners who have utilized various… Read more »

Houston, TX—Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) announced the nominees for appointments to the U.S. Service Academies for Texas’ Seventh Congressional District, and hosted a reception with the nominees to celebrate their achievement.  “It is a privilege to nominate bright, dedicated students for an appointment to our country’s service academies,” said Congresswoman Lizzie… Read more »

Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) announced her office has successfully resolved 10,000 cases for residents of Texas’ Seventh Congressional District.  Her office assists residents with matters before federal agencies, including obtaining benefits from Social Security, Medicare, and the Department of Veterans Affairs, as well as addressing matters before the Small… Read more »

Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) delivered more than 1,600 handmade valentines to area veterans at Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center and the Sugar Land VA Clinic.  As a part of Congresswoman Fletcher’s annual Valentines for Veterans program, local students, teachers, and residents of the Seventh Congressional District made these cards,… Read more »

The Congressional Equality Caucus announced that Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) will serve as a Vice Chair of the Congressional Equality Caucus.  The Equality Caucus works toward the extension of equal rights, the repeal of discriminatory laws, the elimination of hate-motivated violence, and the improved health and well-being for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer,… Read more »

E&E DAILY | A bipartisan group of members from both chambers on Thursday reintroduced legislation that would establish a revenue-sharing system for offshore renewable energy development. It marks the latest attempt by congressional lawmakers from coastal states and districts to ease existing restrictions on how much revenue they can recoup from the dollars that are generated off… Read more »

Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) reintroduced the bipartisan Reinvesting in Shoreline Economies and Ecosystems (RISEE) Actalong with Congressman Don Davis (NC-01), Congressman Randy Weber (TX-14) Congresswoman Anna Eshoo (CA-16), Congresswoman Nancy Mace (SC-01), and Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger (VA-07).  This legislation, which Congresswoman Fletcher… Read more »

Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) and Congressman Carlos Gimenez (FL-28) led a bipartisan letter with their colleagues to U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas urging him to pause the implementation of and review proposed changes to the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI).  The proposed changes would alter… Read more »

Speaker: Without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher: Thank you, Madam Speaker. For a year and a half now, people in Texas who are able to do so have been traveling out of state to obtain abortion care, and now that 15 other states have banned abortion, more people are traveling even further to get the reproductive health care they need.… Read more »