APPROPRIATIONS PROCESS MOVES FORWARD - Over the weekend, negotiators in Congress agreed to certain spending allocations in order to fund various government agencies through most of the year. With both bodies in session...more
Health care was one of the most active issue areas in 2023 and this trend is expected to continue when Congress returns in the New Year for the second session of the 118th Congress. The activity by the health committees of...more
Remaining Congressional Session - There is very little time left in this Congressional session, and both the House and Senate are expected to depart in October to go home to campaign. The exact timing is unclear and the plans...more
The post-Memorial Day summer session has begun in Washington with the House and Senate facing a similar to-do list but with different approaches and philosophies. The main items on the summer agenda include the Phase 4...more
Outlook for This Week in the Nation's Capital - Congress Returns. Both the House and Senate return this week from the August recess period....more
Outlook for This Week in the Nation's Capital - Congress: The Congress will be on recess this week, before returning the following week to resume work on a number of matters....more
On September 28, 2018, the House voted 361-61 to send President Trump a Fiscal Year 2019 (FY19) spending bill including $674.4 billion for Defense and $178.1 billion for Labor-HHS-Education. The Senate voted 93-7 to adopt the...more
With Labor Day now behind us, Washington returns to a fairly significant workload for September and October in the run-up to the midterm elections in November. The House is in session for the next two weeks before returning...more
ACA plans scored a major victory last week when a federal court held that health plans participating on the ACA exchanges are entitled to unpaid cost sharing reduction (CSR) payments from the federal government. The case –...more
This Week: Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing Focuses on Health Insurers Merger... Arkansas to Delay Setting Up Its Own State Exchange...The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Announces Medicare Advantage...more
Despite the high hopes earlier this year of passing individual or several mini-bus appropriation bills, a twelve-bill omnibus approach to appropriations is now all but guaranteed. ...more
In This Issue: - Energy and Climate Debate - Congress - Administration - Department of Commerce - Department of Energy - Department of Health and Human Services - Department of...more