Bipartisan legislation recently offered by U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS) would prevent insurers from charging cancer patients higher copayments for oral medications than for chemotherapy medicine delivered intravenously. “Access to new treatments, therapies, and cures will help save lives,” said Read more…
With nearly 43 million people holding federal student loan debt, U.S. Reps. Mike Turner (R-OH) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) on June 14 offered a bipartisan bill that would amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide for the refinancing Read more…
Young children would be seated together with their family members on flights without incurring any extra costs under bipartisan legislation introduced on June 15 by U.S. Rep. Ann Wagner (R-MO). The Fly Together Act of 2023, H.R. 4193, which Rep. Read more…
U.S. Sens. Roger Wicker (R-MS) and John Hoeven (R-ND) on June 15 proposed a bicameral, bipartisan bill that would expand access to telehealth services, ensure program integrity, and provide beneficiary and provider supports, quality of care, and data. “Telehealth is Read more…
U.S. Rep. Troy Balderson (R-OH) on Flag Day, June 14, cosponsored a bipartisan bill that would require American flags displayed on federal property or purchased by federal agencies to be 100-percent manufactured in the United States from American-made materials. “Flying Read more…
U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) led two of their Republican colleagues in calling on the Biden administration to ensure it is developing a strategy to oversee federal high-containment laboratories, and updating policies to Read more…
Toward removing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the land, air, and sea, a bill introduced on June 14 by U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) would establish the Interagency Group on Large-Scale Carbon Management in the National Science and Technology Read more…
Rep. Andy Barr
U.S. Rep. Andy Barr (R-KY) on June 14 introduced a bipartisan, bicameral bill that would reauthorize and improve federal programs to support individuals in substance use disorder treatment and recovery who are trying to live independently and participate in the Read more…
A bipartisan bill sponsored on June 14 by U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-FL) would amend the Social Security Act to preserve patient access to home infusion therapy under the Medicare program. Rep. Buchanan introduced the Preserving Patient Access to Home Read more…
President Joe Biden on June 14 signed into law a bipartisan bill cosponsored by U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS) that requires the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to increase annual cost-of-living payments to the nation’s military veterans. “I am Read more…