U.S. Sen. Todd Young (R-IN) on April 30 announced plans to introduce the bipartisan Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act to address the nation’s shortage of doctors and nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic. “This legislation will help address our immediate healthcare needs Read more…
Illinois Republican U.S. Reps. Rodney Davis, Adam Kinzinger, John Shimkus, and Darin LaHood requested that their home-state governor begin a phased regional reopening of Illinois businesses during the current pandemic. The Illinois GOP delegation heard from concerned constituents following the Read more…
U.S. Rep. Troy Balderson (R-OH) led 20 of his congressional colleagues in suggesting that a telephone hotline be set up for Americans without broadband service who lack access to the U.S. Treasury Department’s economic impact payments (EIPs). Authorized under the Read more…
America’s nonprofits must receive federal support in the next emergency stimulus relief package, wrote U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) and more than 140 of his colleagues in an April 29 letter sent to leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives Read more…
U.S. Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI) helped lead a bipartisan group of more than 180 lawmakers in urging his chamber’s leadership to address the challenges faced by the U.S. scientific research workforce as Congress works on another economic relief bill in Read more…
The West Virginia Board of Medicine and the West Virginia State Medical Association applauded a bipartisan effort led by U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) to bolster federal audio-only telehealth reimbursements during the current pandemic. Sen. Capito and her colleague Read more…
U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) applauded an April 28 executive order signed by the president to ensure that the nation’s beef, pork and poultry processors in the food supply chain continue operating and fulfilling orders, action she has continually advocated Read more…
The 12 U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs regions must receive their fair share of the $8 billion authorized to them under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, according to U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD). Specifically, the Great Read more…
U.S. Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA) recently urged the U.S. Treasury Department and the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) to issue prompt guidance explaining how the loan-processing system will be made available to all sizes of lenders and how the agencies Read more…