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October 20, 2018
WASHINGTON — The pharmaceutical industry, pilloried by President Trump for the last two years, is war-gaming for the possibility that its worst fear is realized: that Democrats, if they flip control of the House, find common ground with the president to rein in drug prices.
October 19, 2018
(Bloomberg) --More than 40 U.S. House lawmakers are urging President Trump to impose sanctions on “those responsible for Jamal Khashoggi’s death,” according to news release from office of Democratic Rep. Lloyd Doggett.
October 19, 2018
More than 40 lawmakers, led by San Antonio-Austin U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, sent a letter urging President Trump to impose sanctions on Saudi Arabia over the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
October 19, 2018
Ezekiel Emanuel is chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. He served in President Barack Obama’s White House from 2009 to 2011.
Everyone — well, maybe everyone but pharmaceutical manufacturers — thinks that drug prices in the United States are way too high. The big question is how to bring them down.
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October 18, 2018
Everyone — well, maybe everyone but pharmaceutical manufacturers — thinks that drug prices in the United States are way too high. The big question is how to bring them down.
October 18, 2018
Washington, D.C. — Over 40 lawmakers today urged Trump to impose sanctions, under the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act, on those responsible for Jamal Khashoggi’s death. The letter states their support for their Senate colleagues’ action to begin an investigation and urges an overdue end to U.S. support for Saudi Arabian military action in Yemen.
October 15, 2018
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President Donald Trump is already signaling one area where he might reach across the aisle if Democrats take the House.
“If there is anything bipartisan, it’s lowering drug prices,” Trump said last Wednesday as he signed two drug price transparency bills.
October 12, 2018
Washington, D.C. — U.S. Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-San Antonio) and U.S. Congressman Joaquin Castro (D-San Antonio) sent a joint letter to Ambassador Robert Lighthizer welcoming a possible signing of NAFTA 2.0, formally known as the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) in San Antonio. The full text of this letter is below and attached:
October 11, 2018
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh won his bitter confirmation battle, but some Democrats in Congress, and others hoping to join their ranks, still want a thorough investigation into sexual misconduct and perjury allegations leveled against him.
October 10, 2018
Washington, D.C. — U.S. Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), a senior member of the House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee, reacted to the anticipated Trump Administration’s notice of intent to begin negotiations for a free trade agreement with the Philippines: