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Cassidy suggests HHS is anti-science ahead of hepatitis B meeting
Kennedy Jr., as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's advisory panel considers the childhood vaccine schedule.
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This week: House votes on Epstein files while Senate seeks spending deal
↵↵The House Oversight Committee last week released tens of thousands of Epstein's email correspondences, and a successful discharge petition forced Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., to schedule floor consideration
Senate Republicans to lunch in Rose Garden as shutdown continues
In the meantime, there Senate is maintaining a robust committee schedule, including a potential must-watch hearing at the Senate Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations Subcommittee with U.S.
Trump, officials link Tylenol to autism as medical community balks
On Thursday and Friday, newly appointed CDC vaccine experts made significant changes to the childhood vaccine schedule, despite scant evidence supporting the changes.
Kennedy’s vaccine advisory panel upends shot recommendations
Several members of the committee agreed that requiring a prescription would present a barrier to implementing the new COVID-19 vaccine schedule, with some voting "strongly" against the proposal.
Nomination rules, defense policy headline the week in Congress
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., has his chamber’s version of the NDAA on the schedule for the week, as well.
House GOP leaders cancel Thursday votes
No more votes are scheduled beyond Wednesday in the House, a change from the previous schedule that reflects a Rules Committee dispute over release of the Jeffrey Epstein case files that will prevent any
GOP spending bills run into intraparty friction in House
House Republican appropriators are running into headwinds in their attempt to move fiscal 2026 spending bills before the August break, struggling both with a tight schedule and intraparty differences on
Panel recommends removing thimerosal from flu vaccines
All vaccines on the childhood schedule are available in doses that don’t include mercury, the FDA’s webpage states.
Kennedy makes ‘clean sweep’ of key vaccine advisory panel
In late May, he announced that the CDC would be removing the COVID-19 shot from its immunization schedule for healthy children and pregnant people, without seeking input from ACIP members.
Federal correctional officers driven to ask Congress for a raise
Gamble, a federal correctional officer, started a more than 10-hour road trip to Washington this weekend fresh off a grueling work schedule: He’d worked 16-hour shifts for 16 consecutive days.
Senate GOP plows through Trump nominations as House GOP huddles at Trump club
Several other nominees will be teed up for floor consideration, and there are other confirmation hearings on the Senate schedule for the week as well. Former Sen.
Biden forced to put legacy push on hold as crises mount at home and abroad
Putting the trip at least on hold — aides contend visits to both countries are still possible before he leaves office on Jan. 20 — was the latest such audible for Biden, who has shifted his schedule for
FDA rejects MDMA therapy for treatment of PTSD. What’s next?
Drug Administration declined to approve what would have been the first psychedelic drug used for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder, a blow to advocates who have touted the potential of the Schedule
Sources: House may scrap votes next week, start recess early
A busy schedule this week also played a role in those two bills getting punted.
Scalise lays out ambitious summer appropriations timetable
House Appropriations Chairman Tom Cole, R-Okla., announced the subcommittee allocations and committee markup schedule last week, which runs from this week to July 10.
Some Democrats stoked by Biden administration’s marijuana move
Garland on Tuesday "circulated a proposal to reclassify marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III," Xochitl Hinojosa, Justice Department director of public affairs, said in a statement Tuesday evening.
Congress’ tech plate is full, with little time at the table
The House Energy and Commerce Committee plans to hold a subcommittee hearing this week on the proposal, but the Senate Commerce Committee has yet to schedule one.
Mars samples project looms large in final spending talks
"As a result, there is currently no credible … schedule, cost and technical baseline that can be accomplished with the likely available funding," the board said.
Johnson’s health policy record focused on abortion, gender care
He also introduced legislation this year to permanently place fentanyl-related substances as schedule I under the Controlled Substances Act, but the legislation has not yet been taken up in committee.Â