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As committees finish managing their portfolios, the Budget Committees must validate and compile all submissions into the budget bill. At this point, members of both parties will have substantial buy-in for their committees’ contributions from having pursued and achieved a variety of mutually beneficial policy changes.
Health care affordability has now become voters’ number one domestic concern. And with good reason. Health care costs are going through the roof. AFP polling shows voters are demanding relief. But that’s only half the story. You wouldn’t know it from the news, but President Trump and congressional Republicans enacted 27 health care wins this past year – incremental reforms that will help make health care more affordable and accessible for millions of Americans. The Health Care Affordability Crisis American health care has reached a tipping point. Consider: Health insurance prices have tripled in […]
The recently introduced Take Care of America’s Veterans Act takes long-needed steps to protect veterans’ health care options. A Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General (VA OIG) report released today shows why this legislation is critical.
This term the Supreme Court decided two cases that removed judicial barriers to federal court review in Olivier v. City of Brandon, and First Choice Women’s Resource Center v. Davenport, throwing open the courthouse doors to plaintiffs with constitutional injuries. These cases continue a multi-year trend of course-correcting on judicial doctrines that barred defendants in agency or state-court actions from having their federal challenges resolved by a federal court.
The Upward Mobility Act, sponsored in the House of Representatives by Rep. Blake Moore (R-UT) and in the Senate by Sen. John Husted (R-OH), would help address the welfare benefits cliffs by allowing up to five states to create pilot Upward Mobility grants with the goals of increasing employment among beneficiaries and reducing benefit cliffs.
The House is taking important steps toward cleaning up federal programs. Congress must continue to build on those efforts to make sure that the federal government is serving the public as well as possible.
The Jones Act raises costs, limits shipping options, and prevents American products from reaching American consumers.
PGSA would 1) keep Congress in DC to finish appropriations bills if they aren’t done prior to the new fiscal year and 2) maintain services for the American people in the meantime.
Empowered committees can make Congress a stronger governing institution. A real budget would help members learn, negotiate, prioritize, and improve policy together over time.
