Congress · 119th Congress
Kennedy’s push to find cause of autism divides Hill Republicans
↵↵For the first time ever, the 2026 Senate Labor-HHS appropriations report directed the NIH to ensure autism research includes profound autism.
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Congress · 119th Congress
House farm bill would set hemp testing, pesticide label authority
↵↵The fiscal 2026 Agriculture spending law set that 0.3 percent limit on total THC content, effectively a ban on intoxicating hemp products that kicked off an effort from lawmakers in hemp-growing states
Congress · 119th Congress
House members push for PBM changes, question Trump drug plan
Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., touted changes in the fiscal 2026 spending package enacted this month to improve pharmacy-benefit manager pricing transparency and reduce incentives for PBMs to promote higher-priced
Congress · 119th Congress
Zero-dollar premiums sticking point in Senate health talks
affordability, and nobody has really walked through what it's going to mean for those 8 million people," Wyden said, referring to an early estimate of how many people have signed up for ACA coverage for 2026
Congress · 119th Congress
Health care fight returns in January with affordability at center
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has acknowledged the difficulty, calling health care "a very complicated issue" while adding that there is "much more to come … to bring down the cost of health care" in early 2026
Congress · 119th Congress
Senate appears polarized as health care subsidy cliff nears
↵↵Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum, was skeptical that much could be done for plan year 2026.
Congress · 117th Congress
Sweeping budget package passes Senate; House on deck Friday
that would lower insulin costs by providing $3.1 billion to help federally qualified health centers cover the direct costs of discounted insulin and epinephrine for qualifying patients through fiscal 2026
Congress · 117th Congress
After four-hour debate, Senate begins voting on budget bill amendments
Under the package, patients wouldn’t see prices that Medicare negotiates directly with drugmakers until 2026, and they would only involve 10 high-cost drugs.
Congress · 117th Congress
‘Chips and science’ bill on way to Biden’s desk
The $24 billion in tax credits the bill would provide through 2026 for constructing new semiconductor manufacturing facilities “aren’t warranted, and I think actually ignore the major national security
Congress · 117th Congress
Semiconductor, science bill passes Senate, heads to House
billion in five-year grants for manufacturing and design of semiconductors and 5G wireless deployment, $24 billion to create a 25 percent tax credit for new semiconductor manufacturing facilities through 2026
Congress · 117th Congress
Test vote on ‘chips-plus’ bill teed up in Senate
Schumer pledged to move ahead with a procedural vote Tuesday afternoon on legislation that would, at minimum, fund semiconductor manufacturing grants and tax incentives through 2026.Â
Congress · 117th Congress
Senate confirms Brainard as Fed vice chair but COVID-19 trips Democrats on Cook vote
Brainard’s term on the board and as vice chair expires in 2026. Niels Lesniewski contributed to this report.
Congress · 117th Congress
Bipartisan Senate group presses leadership for R&D tax break
Democrats included a delay of the switch to a less generous break to fiscal 2026 in their $2.2 trillion social safety net and climate package.
Congress · 117th Congress
Major corporations make last-ditch push for R&D tax break
Democrats included a temporary solution, delaying the shift from this year to the start of 2026, in their $2.2 trillion climate and social safety net bill.
Congress · 117th Congress
Lawmakers face pressure to pass mental health legislation
John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Michael Bennet, D-Colo., that would increase authorizations to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline program to $50 million per year through fiscal 2026.
Congress · 117th Congress
Social Security fixes could animate post-midterms agenda
Medicare is probably more costly in the long run and has an even earlier trust fund exhaustion date, in 2026.
Congress · 117th Congress
Lobbyists, advocates seek to revise budget bill’s drug price changes
Under the House bill, the Department of Health and Human Services would negotiate prices for insulin and up to 10 drugs without generic competition in 2025, 15 drugs in 2026 and 2027, and 20 drugs afterward
Congress · 117th Congress
Tax changes keep coming as Democrats seek budget bill votes
Now the bill includes a one-year expansion and almost $4 billion available through 2026 for the IRS, along with another $1 billion for the Treasury Department to support enrollment and administration
Congress · 117th Congress
Sanders opposes plan to scrap ‘SALT’ cap, then restore it
Under the proposal circulating on Capitol Hill, the current $10,000 limit on SALT deductions would be repealed for the 2021 through 2025 tax years, then reinstated from 2026 through 2030 in Democrats
Congress · 117th Congress
Democrats closer to deal on budget reconciliation package
with party leaders on a potential five-year suspension of the $10,000 cap on state and local tax deductions, though that break would be paid for by extending the current law cap five years beyond its 2026