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Democratic Lawmakers Seek Answers on Drug Price Increases
Twelve Democratic lawmakers and Senator Bernie Sanders recently wrote a letter to Stephen Ubl, President and CEO of the…
House Republicans Ask Becerra to Pull Medicare Aduhelm Proposal, Request…
House Republicans want the Biden administration to pull its proposal for Medicare to cover the controversial Alzheimer’s disease…
Califf Narrowly Voted by Senate to Be Next FDA Commissioner
Robert Califf was narrowly approved in the U.S. Senate and will return to the FDA as its next commissioner. With this in mind, we…
Senate HELP Committee Discusses Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders
On February 1, 2022, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee held a hearing, Mental Health and…
HELP Committee Releases Discussion Draft of Bipartisan Legislation Aimed at…
In late January 2022, Senators Patty Murray and Richard Burr (Chair and Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and…
Cures 2.0 Introduced in the House
Two years after beginning work on a follow up to the 21st Century Cures Act, Reps. Fred Upton (R-MI) and Diana DeGette (D-CO)…
House Oversight Publishes Competing Views of Drug Pricing Investigation
Highlighting the partisan nature of Congress these days, the House Oversight and Reform Committee and the Republicans on the…
Bipartisan Representatives Oppose MCIT Repeal
It’s hard to find topics of bipartisan agreement these days in Washington, D.C. However, more than 60 House Representatives from…
False Claims Amendments Act of 2021 Continues to Wind Through Congress
Earlier this year, Senator Chuck Grassley and a bipartisan group of senators introduced the False Claims Amendment Act of 2021,…
Legislation Introduced to Create an Office of Rural Health
On November 3, 2021, Congressman A. Donald McEachin and Senator Jeff Merkley introduced the bicameral Rural Health Equity Act. If…