This Week in Washington: Senate Fails to Advance Bill Protecting Abortion Rights After Supreme Court Draft Opinion Leak...more
5/17/2022
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This Week in Washington: CMS announces the 2023 Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters Final Rule...more
5/3/2022
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This Week in Washington: Senate Confirms Ketanji Brown Jackson to Supreme Court...more
This Week in Washington: Senate Questions Supreme Court Justice Nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson...more
This Week in Washington: Congress Passes Appropriations to Fund Government Through Fiscal Year 2023...more
This Week in Washington: President Biden Reiterates Healthcare Priorities and Announces Initiatives in his State of the Union Address...more
3/8/2022
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This Week in Washington: Continuing Resolution Moves Forward and Senate Sets Up Vote on FDA Commissioner Nomination this Week...more
2/15/2022
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This Week in Washington: Senate HELP Committee Chair Patty Murray and Ranking Member Richard Burr Release Discussion Draft of Bipartisan Pandemic and Public Health Response Bill....more
2/1/2022
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January 11 -
Senate Health, Education and Labor Committee Hearing: “Addressing New Variants: A Federal Perspective on the COVID-19 Response” 10:00 a.m....more
This week in Washington: Congress makes agreement on pathway forward to raise the debt ceiling....more
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December 8 -
House Agriculture Committee, Nutrition, Oversight, and Department Operations Subcommittee Hearing: “Review of USDA Nutrition Distribution Programs”...more
12/7/2021
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November 2 -
House Veterans’ Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on Technology Modernization Hearing: “Next Steps: Examining Plans for the Continuation of the Department of Veterans Affairs...more
11/2/2021
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This week in Washington: Reconciliation delayed; short-term debt ceiling fix passed....more
10/12/2021
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This week in Washington: Continuing resolution passes House, government shutdown averted for now, infrastructure and reconciliation package votes delayed....more