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If you were watching your stock portfolios this past week there was a lot of movement – most of it downward – due to concerns about the impact of a potential escalation in the ongoing trade war between the US and China. Given the eccentric management style of this President it is hard to predict […]

Key health care legislation will be on the House floor again this week as Democratic leadership has set up votes on a package (rules committee print) of bills aimed at addressing prescription drug pricing and rolling back Trump-era ACA regulations. While a significant portion of the legislation pertaining to drug pricing enjoys bipartisan support — such as […]

The Week in Review Health care legislation cleared the House floor last week as lawmakers passed a slew bills pertaining to drug pricing and the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The House passed a bill (H.R. 986) that would prohibit the Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Treasury from taking any action to implement, […]

House lawmakers are set to vote on another disaster relief bill (text; summary) in hopes of breaking a months-long impasse over the emergency funds. The latest $17.2 billion offer from House Appropriations Chairwoman Nita Lowey (D-NY) includes additional funding for Army Corps of Engineers projects, Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) assistance, and the Department of […]

House Democrats are set to take another step toward reversing Trump-era regulations pertaining to the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Lawmakers will vote on a bill (H.R. 986) that would prohibit the Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Treasury from taking any action to implement, enforce, or otherwise give effect to the Trump Administration’s […]

House Democrats are set to address their broad goal of addressing prescription drug prices with a vote on two incremental pieces of legislation. The drug pricing suspension bills (H.R. 1503 and H.R. 1520) up for consideration today would respectively update the FDA’s Orange Book and Purple Book to provide better information on brand drug and biologic patent […]

House lawmakers will begin their legislative work week this afternoon as the chamber looks to clear two key legislative priorities. For today, the House will consider three bills under suspension of the rules out of the Foreign Affairs Committee, including a measure (H.R. 1704) that seeks to foster commercial relations with foreign countries and support […]

The Week in Review House and Senate lawmakers returned from a two-week district work period to begin four weeks of legislative business. During their first week back, House lawmakers cleared a pair of resolutions out of the Financial Services Committee aimed at promoting financial literacy. The resolutions seek to support the protection of elders through financial literacy (H.Res 328) and would encourage greater public-private […]

Health care legislation will hit the House floor this week, as lawmakers are expected to vote on legislation to reverse Trump-era Affordable Care Act (ACA) regulations and a pair of bills that take incremental steps toward the broader goal of addressing prescription drug prices. The Protecting Americans with Preexisting Conditions Act (H.R. 986) prohibits the […]

This week, the House Financial Services Committee is set to mark-up a series of bill, a few of which may end up achieving bipartisan consensus, while the Senate Banking Committee will hold a hearing on data privacy.   On the Floor, much of the messaging will be focused on the Pre-existing coverage bill, but a Disaster Relief […]

House lawmakers are poised to take up another disaster relief bill (text; summary) in hopes of breaking a months-long impasse over the emergency funds. The latest $17.2 billion offer from House Appropriations Chairwoman Nita Lowey (D-NY) includes additional funding for Army Corps of Engineers projects, Community Block Development Grants, and the Department of Agriculture's Emergency Conservation […]

Lawmakers in the House are set to begin consideration of a bill that would reject President Donald Trump’s stance on the Paris Climate Agreement. The Climate Action Now Act (H.R. 9) — which is expected to pass later this week along party lines — would bind the Trump administration to the carbon-cutting goals of the […]