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New Year, New Congress, New Office!
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Rep. Lizzie Fletcher
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Rep. Lizzie Fletcher
@RepFletcher
Honored and proud to represent Texas' 7th Congressional District in Houston, where inclusion, innovation, and collaboration thrive. #TX07
- This week, I joined my colleagues in a letter condemning the hateful Anti-Muslim Sharia Free Caucus. These anti-Muslim attacks and threats have no place in Congress. #TX07 is home to many patriotic Muslim Americans, and I am honored and proud to represent them.Today, I joined @ChrisVanHollen, @RepAndreCarson, @rosadelauro, @RepHankJohnson, @RepRoKhanna, and @RepJerryNadler in leading 119 Democrats in a letter condemning the Anti-Muslim Sharia Free Caucus. Religious discrimination has no place anywhere, and in Congress, there ought to
- The long fight for women's equal rights led to the enactment of the Equal Pay Act #OTD in 1963. Despite this important law, women today earn only 81 cents on the dollar compared to men. I'm committed to ensuring that women receive equal pay for equal work, and I'll keep fighting
- While Texans—as well as Americans across the country invested in our public lands—have fought to protect the precious ecosystem at Big Bend National Park, the Trump administration has waived its environmental responsibility so that it can proceed with its potentially destructive
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A calf and a dog are the two latest Texas screwworm cases, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t…
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SNAP enrollment has fallen sharply nationwide since the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act last summer. More than 3.5 million people have lost access to the food assistance as states implement new eligibility requirements and stricter application processes. @WmBrangham
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As Leader @RepJeffries points out, the GOP reconciliation bill leaves totally intact the $1.8 billion slush fund Trump wants to give to the violent felons he pardoned after they tried to overthrow the election on January 6th.
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NEW: Major posts are vacant. Waves of scientists are gone. Ebola looms. How RFK Jr. manages HHS: “If the C.E.O. lacked deep expertise in the company’s business and the leaders of its most important divisions were missing, investors would revolt." - Rep. Lizzie Fletcher reposted
WATCH LIVE: Legislative hearing on health care transparency. ⬇️ 🔗: youtube.com/live/HByBJ42gx…
- This Congress has utterly failed to meet the moment and to meet the needs of Americans, forcing through a bill to fund ICE and CBP for three years without any reforms.
00:00 - Hard to believe but absolutely true that the right of Americans to use the birth control that works for them is under attack. Today, I filed a discharge petition to protect that right by demanding a vote on the Right to Contraception Act. I encourage all of my colleagues to
- An important read about how more people are going hungry now than during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic six years ago. Americans deserve better.
- Rep. Lizzie Fletcher repostedWATCH LIVE: Legislative hearing on nuclear energy licensing and transparency. The Trump Administration has launched unprecedented attacks on nuclear energy safety standards. It’s time to force transparency. ⤵️ 🔗: youtube.com/live/xMXqAC6MZ…
