Health/Medical
June 7, 2017
Collins to Stay On as NIH Director
Yesterday, the White House announced that Dr. Francis Collins will continue to serve as Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Collins has led the NIH since 2009 and previously led the NIH Human Genome Research Institute. Earlier this year, a bipartisan group of Congressional leaders wrote a letter to the President asking him…
May 30, 2017
Memorial Day Recess, Health Care & Tax Reform Slowly Move, Omnibus Already?
The House and Senate are in recess to observe Memorial Day this week. Members returned to their home districts to work as efforts continue behind the scenes in DC on health care and tax reform. Health care continues to be a big unknown in the Senate. According to the most recent impact analysis released by the Congressional…
May 24, 2017
23 Million Would Lose Health Insurance, According to CBO
The Congressional Budget Office, which analyzes impacts of bills, determined today that the House-passed legislation to repeal Obamacare earlier this spring would lead to 23 million individuals losing health insurance over 10 years. Read more here and here.
May 8, 2017
House Out, Senate Still Working
The House is out for a pre-scheduled recess this week — and likely to do a victory lap about passing the AHCA last week — while the Senate continues to move through nominations, Russian investigations, and maybe health care reform. Also last week, FY 2017 funding is finally secured, and Congress is beginning to take stock of…
May 4, 2017
House Passes AHCA, the ACA Repeal
By a vote of 217-213, the House passed a bill that would repeal parts of the 2010 health care law and change Medicaid from an open-ended entitlement system to one that limits states’ federal funding. Passage fulfills a core Republican campaign promise of the past seven years. The measure, HR 1628, moves to the Senate, where supporters will face major…
House to Vote on ACA Repeal Today
Following an amendment that won the support of two Republican hold-outs on the American Health Care Act (AHCA), House GOP leaders move to consider the AHCA today. This vote will be a defining moment for President Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan, to say nothing of the rank-and-file Republicans. The GOP also is planning to vote on…
May 3, 2017
House Passes Omnibus, Senate Next
The House just passed a sweeping FY 2017 Omnibus appropriations bill (H.R.244) to fund the government through Sept. 30. The House is sending the $1.07 trillion spending package over to the Senate for a vote later this week, likely Friday. The House vote was 309-118. The lengthy legislation comprises 11 unfinished appropriations bills, along with an intelligence authorization bill…
May 1, 2017
FY 2017 Omnibus Released
At 2 am last night, House and Senate appropriators released the FY 2017 Omnibus, which comprises the 11 unfinished FY 2017 appropriations bills, providing fresh spending instructions for nearly every corner of the federal government and formally appropriates more than $1 trillion in discretionary spending for FY 2017, in keeping with the spending limits agreed…
April 28, 2017
House Scraps ACA Vote, House and Senate Pass One Week CR
Late last night, House Republican leadership decided to forego a vote on the ACA amendment by Rep. Tom MacArthur circulated earlier this week. MacArthur, who is the leader of the moderate Republican Tuesday Group, would shift how individuals with preexisting conditions are insured to the states. The amendment won the support of the conservative House…
March 24, 2017
Healthcare Bill Pulled
After a drama-filled day of discussions and conversations between the House and the White House and among the House Republicans themselves, which did not ultimately create enough support for its passage, the healthcare legislation was pulled from the House floor before a vote. The path forward on the push to repeal and replace Obamacare remains uncertain.
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