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After Trump Administration Delays Funding For Family Planning Program, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher and Colleagues Lead Effort To Protect Critical Reproductive Health Care

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Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07), Congresswoman Judy Chu (CA-28), Congresswoman Sharice Davids (KS-03), Congresswoman Dina Titus (NV-01), and Congresswoman Nikema Williams (GA-05) led 128 of their Democratic Women’s Caucus and Reproductive Freedom Caucus colleagues in sending a letter to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy urging him to…

Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher, Congresswoman Val Hoyle, and Congressman Joe Neguse Lead Effort To Support Funding for Federal Natural Disaster Research and Preparedness

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Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07), Congresswoman Val Hoyle (OR-04), and Congressman Joe Neguse (CO-02) led 27 of their House colleagues in sending a letter to the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies requesting that Congress fund the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) at a…

Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher Joins Democratic Women’s Caucus and Reproductive Freedom Caucus Leaders In Effort To Oppose Trump Administration’s Proposed Rule to Raise Health Care Costs and Restrict Access to Family Planning Services

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Today, Reproductive Freedom Caucus Vice Chair and Whip Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07), Reproductive Freedom Caucus Co-Chairs Diana DeGette (CO-01) and Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), Reproductive Freedom Caucus Vice Chair Norma Torres (CA-35), Democratic Women’s Caucus Chair Teresa Leger Fernández (NM-03), and Democratic Women’s Caucus Vice Chair Hillary Scholten (MI-03) sent a letter to U.S.…

Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher Joins Colleagues in Requesting Investigation into Reports that Military Leaders Claim War in Iran Part of Biblical End-Times Prophecies

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Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) joined Congressional Freethought Caucus Co-Chairs Representative Jared Huffman (CA-02) and Jamie Raskin (MD-08), House Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Personnel Ranking Member Chrissy Houlahan (PA-06), and 26 of their colleagues in requesting U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) Inspector General Platte B. Moring III open an investigation into…

Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher, Congressman Emanuel Cleaver, and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse Continue Fight Against Trump Administration’s Termination of Renewable Energy Program

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Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07), Congressman Emanuel Cleaver (MO-05), and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) led 46 members of Congress in filing an amicus brief in support of 23 states’ lawsuit against the Trump administration for terminating the Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA) Solar for All program (Arizona et al v. EPA). “Solar for All is one of the most important…

Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher Votes To Require President To Follow Constitution

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Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) voted for H.Con.Res.38, a resolution to direct President Trump to terminate the use of the United States Armed Forces from hostilities against Iran unless Congress explicitly makes a declaration of war or authorizes use of military force against Iran. "The United States Constitution provides that Congress has the sole authority and solemn…

Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher Votes Against DHS Funding Bill That Fails To Address Lawlessness of ICE, CBP

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Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) voted against the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, H.R. 7744.  She introduced an amendment to H.R. 7744 to stop the rapid recruitment of unvetted individuals at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), but Republicans blocked its consideration. “The Homeland Security funding bill presented to the House today…

Fort Bend reps react to U.S. war in Iran

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Reaction among Fort Bend County's representatives in the U.S. Congress and the Texas Legislature to the U.S. and Israel-launched war on Iran were mixed, and broke largely along party lines. President Trump announced the launch of the attack shortly after the strikes began early Saturday morning, saying in a post on his Truth Social network that the Islamicist regime that has ruled the…

Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher on U.S. Attack on Iran

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Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) released the following statement after the United States and Israel attacked Iran, and President Trump called for change in Iran’s government: “Today, President Trump announced that he has taken unilateral action to start a war with Iran without authorization from Congress—the representatives of the people—that threatens to put the United…

Texas lawmakers split as Trump orders U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran

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Texas lawmakers split sharply on Saturday after President Trump ordered joint U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran, with Republicans praising the operation as overdue force and Democrats warning it was unauthorized and dangerously escalatory. A joint strike hit Iran on Saturday, and Mr. Trump said Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had been killed. The White House described the…