To help stem the coronavirus crisis, U.S. Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI) wants to ensure that Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) recipients are able to receive telemedicine services. States currently have the ability to authorize such services but many Read more…
U.S. Reps. Mike Kelly (R-PA) and Troy Balderson (R-OH) last week urged President Donald Trump to expand 232 tariffs to protect the American electrical steel industry from unfair trade practices. “We implore the U.S. Trade Representative and the Department of Read more…
U.S. Rep. John Katko (R-NY) on March 5 introduced a bipartisan bill to establish the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Water within the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Rep. Katko sponsored the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Water (ARPA-H2O) Act of 2020, H.R. 6113, Read more…
U.S. Rep. Larry Bucshon (R-IN) on March 5 introduced bipartisan, bicameral legislation that would federally regulate in vitro clinical tests (IVCTs). Rep. Bucshon is the lead original cosponsor of the Verifying Accurate, Leading-edge IVCT Development (VALID) Act of 2020, H.R. Read more…
U.S. Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA) led his Georgia colleagues in the U.S. House of Representatives in seeking “robust support” from congressional appropriators for America’s channel deepening projects. Specifically, Rep. Carter and the Georgia delegation asked that sufficient federal funds be Read more…
The U.S. Senate on March 5 approved the bipartisan Child Care Protection Improvement Act of 2020, coauthored by U.S. Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC). “I’m proud to see the Senate unanimously pass this important legislation to give working parents peace of Read more…
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ process for managing flood prevention projects along the lower Missouri River would be overhauled under newly proposed legislation introduced by several United States Republican senators from the Midwest. U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) on Read more…
U.S. Sen. Deb Fischer (R-NE) on March 2 introduced a bipartisan bill to make available more respirators during public health emergencies, such as the current global COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak. “Our bipartisan bill would help ensure manufacturers are producing additional respirators,” Read more…
U.S. Sen. John Hoeven (R-ND) last week sponsored a U.S. Senate-approved amendment to a bipartisan energy bill that would repeal the extension of the wind production tax credit (PTC). Sen. Hoeven introduced the amendment with U.S. Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) Read more…
U.S. Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA) and U.S. House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) led 130 of their GOP colleagues in supporting a proposed rulemaking by the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) to modernize the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). “This Read more…