by Jordana Choucair | Apr 6, 2022 | D.C. News
The Biden administration announced a new effort to prevent, detect, and treat long COVID-19. President Biden issued a memorandum that accelerates enrollment in the National Institutes of Health’s study of the long-term effects of COVID-19 infection and instructs the...
by Jordana Choucair | Apr 5, 2022 | D.C. News
President Biden is set to announce regulatory changes to Affordable Care Act (ACA) rules that could help hundreds of thousands more Americans gain coverage and more than a million spend less on premiums. The administration plans to change the definition of...
by Jordana Choucair | Apr 5, 2022 | D.C. News
The Senate voted 53-47 to advance U.S. Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation. After the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 11-11, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called for a vote to break the deadlock and send her nomination to the floor....
by Jordana Choucair | Apr 5, 2022 | D.C. News
Senate negotiators announced a deal on a $10 billion COVID-19 preparedness funding package. All $10 billion of the funding goes to agencies within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and is offset by unspent COVID-19 aid funds. The Biomedical Advanced...
by Jordana Choucair | Apr 4, 2022 | D.C. News
The House on Friday voted 220-204 to remove marijuana from the list of scheduled substances so that growing, selling, or possessing the drug would no longer carry criminal penalties. The Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act would also create a...
by Jordana Choucair | Apr 1, 2022 | D.C. News
Senator Mitt Romney announced that Republicans have struck an “agreement in principle” with Democrats on a $10 billion package to provide further COVID-19 pandemic relief. An additional $1 billion in global vaccine funding could be added, but only if other...
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