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March 28, 2023
A small but diverse and bipartisan group of House lawmakers is urging the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to take a new tack in the fight against drug patent gaming that delays generic and biosimilar competition.
Issues:Healthcare
March 23, 2023
BATTLING MEDICARE FRAUD — House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee ranking member Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) today introduced the Medicare Fraud Detection and Deterrence Act, which would equip the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services with additional authority to hold Medicare fraudsters accountable.
Issues:Healthcare
February 24, 2023
WASHINGTON — Texas Republicans heckled President Joe Biden over his treatment of the border during his State of the Union address Tuesday night, expressing dissatisfaction over the president’s handling of one of their top priorities.
February 10, 2023
Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas), ranking member of the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa), chair of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, and Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) today will introduce a bill to phase out a five-month waiting period to receive Social Security Disability Insurance benefits and allow those who are uninsured or unable to afford health insurance to immediately receive Medicare coverage.
January 28, 2023
Harold H. Brown, who as a teenager overcame racial prejudice in the American South to become an Army Air Corps fighter pilot during World War II — a member of the famed Tuskegee Airmen — only to be downed over Austria and face a lynch mob of vengeful villagers, died on Jan. 12 in Huron, Ohio. He was 98.
January 27, 2023
Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) will serve as the ranking member on the Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, the full committee’s ranking member Richard Neal (D-Mass.) announced Friday.
January 25, 2023
Travis County Commissioners approved a $35 million contract with nonprofit Mobile Loaves & Fishes on Jan. 24 that will go toward housing people experiencing homelessness.
January 17, 2023
A Texas Permanent School Fund bond program this month rejected an Austin school district request to act as its guarantor for school bonds the district scheduled to sell Wednesday, in its first of several planned sales over the next six years to pay for projects voters approved in a $2.4 billion bond package in November.
January 10, 2023
Last summer, Congress passed overdue drug pricing reforms to help older adults afford their medications by empowering Medicare to negotiate some drug prices, limit drug corporation price spikes and cap out-of-pocket costs.
Issues:Healthcare
January 9, 2023
Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Tex.) said the Republican measure that would rescind $80 million in funding for the Internal Revenue Service should be renamed the “Protect Donald Trump and His Tax-Cheating Cronies Act.”