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Senators renew drug price push ahead of House Democrats’ vote
</p> The Finance bill has been mired in concerns that provisions meant to slow the rise of drug prices paid by Medicare constitute price controls.
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</p> The Finance bill has been mired in concerns that provisions meant to slow the rise of drug prices paid by Medicare constitute price controls.
</p> Shaheen argues the provision in the bill would simply require USAID contractors to adhere to current law, which stipulates they can’t deny services to individuals based on race, gender, sexual orientation
</p>Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., speaks with a staffer Tuesday during the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on U.S. policy toward Russia. (Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call)Sen.
And a deal reached over the summer between congressional leaders and the White House stipulated they would not resort to another such catchall bill.
</p> The PRO Act, as it’s called, is a Frankenstein bill that cobbles together more than 20 dangerous provisions, some new and some rejected numerous times by previous Congresses.
Recently, Congress has been unable to do even the bare minimum: pass a defense authorization or appropriations bill on time.
</p> “I think we’ll be able to resolve most of the issues in the bill between the four of us at the subcommittee level.
</p> [Democrats bow to critics, expand scope of drug price bill]</p> The groups will build on an ad push supporting the House bill earlier this year by the group Protect Our Care that focused on districts
</p> [‘Skinny’ defense bill omits key element: Military construction]</p> The report accompanying the House Armed Services Committee’s bill, for example, directs the Defense secretary to brief the committee
</p> The White House messaging is similar to that used by President Bill Clinton and his aides in 1998: pressing lawmakers to expedite the impeachment process and Senate trial so Washington can focus
</p> Case isn’t fazed.
</p> The “SALT” bill, which has not yet been released, is still in flux, but the $10,000 deduction limit set by the Republican-backed tax code overhaul would be raised to an as-yet undetermined level for
</p> His last floor vote was on Nov. 12.
</p> The White House position in the negotiations is that President Donald Trump specifically won’t sign any nondefense appropriations bill until wall funding and other issues are resolved in the Homeland
OPINION — Twenty years ago, after the impeachment of Bill Clinton and the departure of Speaker Newt Gingrich, I left my post as the speaker’s director of planning and opted to go into the business of survey
</p> “We can’t use federal money to study THC-related research.
</p> The battle could cost Riggleman his job.
</p> Noah Feldman of Harvard Law School said that Trump’s conduct “clearly constitutes an impeachable high crime.”</p> And Pamela S.
</p> Yet the Labor-HHS bill faces its own partisan policy disputes that could derail a final compromise.