The U.S. Senate is in session for three days this week while the U.S. House of Representatives is in recess all week. Both chambers will return for a week before breaking for the July 4 recess. Negotiations on the...more
6/18/2025
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The U.S. Senate will likely release additional sections of the reconciliation package this week. It is unlikely the Senate Committee on Finance, which has jurisdiction over Medicaid, will hold a markup on its portion of the...more
6/11/2025
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U.S. House of Representatives committees are scheduled to begin markups on additional portions of the budget reconciliation package on May 13, 2025. Both the House Committee on Ways and Means and the House Committee on Energy...more
5/14/2025
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Reconciliation markups in the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce, as well as the House Committee on Ways and Means, were expected to be held this week but have been postponed until next week at the...more
5/7/2025
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Looking Ahead: House to Vote on Compromise Budget Resolution On the heels of the U.S. Senate's passage of a compromise budget resolution, the U.S. House of Representatives is expected to consider the budget resolution on the...more
4/9/2025
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Dr. Jayanta (Jay) Bhattacharya, nominated to be Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Dr. Martin Makary, nominated to be the Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), appeared before the...more
Although Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination hearings to be the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) focused on a variety of areas, his testimony and questions from U.S. senators focused on a few...more
2/4/2025
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