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Welcome to Dorsey’s Energy Law: Month in Review for January 2026. We provide this update to our clients to identify significant developments in the previous month....more
On February 3, 2026, President Trump signed HR 7148, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026, as part of the federal government’s fiscal year 2026 spending package. The Act provides for a significant two-year extension of...more
On February 3, 2026, President Trump signed H.R. 7148, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026 (the “Bill”) into law. In addition to funding portions of the government through September 30, 2026, the Bill also includes...more
Many healthcare programs are extended for specific time periods, some as short as one or two years, others as long as 10. These “extenders” are usually attached to a larger piece of must-pass legislation....more
U.S. Congress will largely return to normal operations this week, following passage of an appropriations package on February 3, 2026, that will fund the vast majority of federal agency operations through the end of 2026. ...more
On Feb. 3, 2026, President Donald Trump signed into law the FY 2026 appropriations bill, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2026, which extends pandemic-era Medicare telehealth flexibilities through Dec. 31, 2027....more
On February 3, 2026, the President signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2026 (the CAA) into law and ended a partial government shutdown. The Act included two changes that directly affect pharmaceutical development:...more
The federal government recently delivered back-to-back measures forcing pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) to be more transparent about their business models. However, with this heightened transparency comes a host of new...more
Alston & Bird’s Legislative & Public Policy Group previews the week ahead highlighting anticipated federal legislative, regulatory, and political activity, and key upcoming actions in Congress, the Administration, and...more
With a dire warning that “[t]ax shelter promoters are watching,” a group of U.S. Senators is questioning a significant decline in Internal Revenue Service investigations of abusive tax schemes as reported in IRS Criminal...more
Congress passed a package that funds the US Department of Health and Human Services through fiscal year 2026 and includes health extenders and additional bipartisan health policies....more
Below is this week’s congressional update by BakerHostetler’s Federal Policy team. We’ll continue to post in weeks when both chambers of Congress are in session....more
The landmark Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 (CISA 2015) has been reauthorized retroactively from its original September 30, 2025 expiration for a limited one-year period. This development was the result of the...more
On February 3, 2026, the House passed the Senate-approved fiscal year (FY) 2026 five-bill spending package (H.R. 7148) via a vote of 217-214, sending the measure to President Trump and ending the partial government shutdown....more
On February 3, 2026, President Trump signed H.R.7148, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026, into law. Section 6703 of the Act, “Increasing Transparency in Generic Drug Applications,” amends the Federal Food, Drug, and...more
On February 3, 2026, a comprehensive fiscal year (FY) 2026 appropriations package advanced through the US House of Representatives, finishing the legislative process for five of the six remaining appropriations bills....more
Congress enacted the fiscal year 2026 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (LHHS) appropriations bill, providing roughly $221 billion in total funding across the subcommittee’s jurisdiction,...more
On February 3, 2026, President Trump signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026 (H.R.7148), an appropriations act that provides funding for various agencies including the Department of Health and Human...more
But how will it spend all that money? On February 3, President Trump signed an appropriations bill that allocates $100 million to the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs through September. This amount is...more
Congress has approved full fiscal year 2026 funding for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The bill provides an overall increase in the HUD budget and preserves funding for several affordable housing...more
On February 3, 2026, the United States House of Representatives narrowly passed a comprehensive spending bill. While the primary aim of the bill was to end a partial government shutdown and fund several federal agencies, it...more
The four-day partial government shutdown – which did not impact the Internal Revenue Service – ended yesterday after the House passed, and the President signed, a funding package approved by the Senate just prior to the...more
In its usual fashion, Congress has allowed the tariff preferences for Haiti under the United States-Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act (CBTPA)and the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) to expire on September 30,...more
On February 3, 2026, President Trump signed HR 7148, the “Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026” (the Act) ending the 4-day partial government shutdown. The Act, part of a broader fiscal year (FY) 2026 spending package,...more
News Briefs - House Passes Funding Bill Extending Telehealth, Hospital-at-Home - The House passed the Department of Health and Human Services' funding bill, including the telehealth and hospital-at-home extensions. Under the...more