This Week in Washington: CMS Releases the Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule...more
This Week in Washington: Supreme Court Overturns Roe v. Wade and Rules in Becerra v. Empire Health Foundation...more
This Week in Washington: Supreme Court Rules in Favor of 340B Hospitals, FDA Approves COVID-19 Vaccines for Children Under Five...more
6/23/2022
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This Week in Washington: House Passes FDA User Fee Reauthorization Package...more
6/14/2022
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The House and Senate are in recess for Memorial Day.
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Rep. Underwood Leads 26 Democratic House Members in Letter Calling for Measures to Lower Healthcare Costs to be Included in Reconciliation...more
6/1/2022
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This Week in Washington: President Biden Invokes Defense Production Act to Increase Supply of Infant Formula...more
This Week in Washington: Senate Fails to Advance Bill Protecting Abortion Rights After Supreme Court Draft Opinion Leak...more
5/17/2022
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This Week in Washington: CMS announces the 2023 Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters Final Rule...more
5/3/2022
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This Week in Washington: Senate Confirms Ketanji Brown Jackson to Supreme Court...more
This Week in Washington: Senate Questions Supreme Court Justice Nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson...more
This Week in Washington: Congress Passes Appropriations to Fund Government Through Fiscal Year 2023...more
This Week in Washington: President Biden Reiterates Healthcare Priorities and Announces Initiatives in his State of the Union Address...more
3/8/2022
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This Week in Washington: Continuing Resolution Moves Forward and Senate Sets Up Vote on FDA Commissioner Nomination this Week...more
2/15/2022
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This Week in Washington: Senate HELP Committee Chair Patty Murray and Ranking Member Richard Burr Release Discussion Draft of Bipartisan Pandemic and Public Health Response Bill....more
2/1/2022
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January 11 -
Senate Health, Education and Labor Committee Hearing: “Addressing New Variants: A Federal Perspective on the COVID-19 Response” 10:00 a.m....more
This week in Washington: Congress makes agreement on pathway forward to raise the debt ceiling....more
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December 8 -
House Agriculture Committee, Nutrition, Oversight, and Department Operations Subcommittee Hearing: “Review of USDA Nutrition Distribution Programs”...more
12/7/2021
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November 2 -
House Veterans’ Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on Technology Modernization Hearing: “Next Steps: Examining Plans for the Continuation of the Department of Veterans Affairs...more
11/2/2021
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This week in Washington: Reconciliation delayed; short-term debt ceiling fix passed....more
10/12/2021
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This week in Washington: Continuing resolution passes House, government shutdown averted for now, infrastructure and reconciliation package votes delayed....more
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September 27 -
House Rules Committee Meeting: to discuss H.R. 3110 — PUMP for Nursing Mothers Act, H.R. 3992 — Protect Older Job Applicants (POJA) Act and H.R. 2119 — Family Violence Prevention...more
9/28/2021
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This week in Washington: Reconciliation markup passes out of House Energy and Commerce and Ways and Means Committees....more
This week in Washington: Reconciliation markups begin.
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• Need for Continuing Resolution to Fund the Government...more
9/14/2021
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This week in Washington: Senate passes infrastructure bill; Senate passes budget resolution with reconciliation instructions; Congress enters recess with House members to return Aug. 23....more
8/17/2021
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This week in Washington: House in recess, Senate continues to debate bipartisan infrastructure bill, Senate to pass a budget resolution with reconciliation instructions before they leave for recess....more