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Cassidy’s defeat complicates Senate Health committee’s future
Bill Cassidy’s loss in the Louisiana Republican primary over the weekend puts the future of the powerful Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee in flux.
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Bill Cassidy’s loss in the Louisiana Republican primary over the weekend puts the future of the powerful Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee in flux.
Louisiana Sen.
↵↵Senate Energy-Water Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman John Kennedy, R-La., ranks third in the Senate, with $450.6 million in funding secured. His largest project — shared with Sen.
John Cornyn, R-Texas, said with high inflation the government needs to stop shoveling money out the door that may have otherwise gone unspent.
And that has led to more than 80 partisan 5-4 decisions under Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. that gave victories to big Republican donor interests.
John Kennedy on Tuesday used a double-booking to make a point, comparing two Cabinet secretaries responses’ to the same question in almost real time.
Roy Blunt, chairman of the Labor-HHS-Education Subcommittee, called his House counterpart, Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, “a tough negotiator.”
“We want to make sure it’s balanced and includes other bills,” including the Labor-HHS-Education bill, Durbin said of Democrats.
John Kennedy suggested he might vote against it as well. “I’ve got a lot of questions about this bill,” the Louisiana Republican said. “Now, some of my colleagues are sold.
John Kennedy of Louisiana said he would get out ahead of whatever may emerge from any inquiry from the Justice Department, but Senate Republicans more broadly are taking a wait-and-see approach.
But I think it’s unlikely that the Senate takes the lead there,” said Missouri Republican and Senate Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Roy Blunt.
Elsewhere, the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee has scheduled a hearing on the importance of vaccines, a significant topic given recent outbreaks of preventable medical conditions like
Circuit, which decides many regulatory cases that have a nationwide scope, such as education, the environment and health care.