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Washington, D.C. – Today, we mark five years since the fatal hot air balloon crash that took the lives of 16 people near Lockhart on July 30, 2016. The Lockhart crash constituted the deadliest commercial balloon crash in our Nation’s history, and the worst aviation disaster in America since 2009. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) found that the Federal Aviation Association’s (FAA) refusal to require balloon operators to obtain a medical certificate contributed to the Caldwell County crash. Rep.
Washington, D.C. – Today, marks 56 years since President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the Social Security Amendments of 1965, at the Harry S. Truman Library in Independence, Missouri, to create the Medicare and Medicaid programs that have provided health security and dignified care for our seniors and vulnerable neighbors in the decades since. To honor this legacy, U.S.
Hospital and doctors’ groups successfully lobbied to save Covid-19 relief money earmarked for their members, while pharmaceutical companies are expected to lose billions of dollars as part of a bipartisan infrastructure deal struck yesterday.
Three years ago, Congress directed the Department of Defense to take steps to lower the cost of medicines discovered with the help of federal funding, but eventually cost Americans substantially more than what is paid in other countries.
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— House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders want answers from FDA about the status of foreign inspections of drug manufacturing facilities.
Washington, D.C. – Just now, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Chair of the House Ways & Means Health Subcommittee, joined by over 30 Members of Congress, introduced the Close the Medigap Act to prohibit discriminatory pricing and coverage denials for patients seeking supplemental Medigap coverage. Nearly 13 million Medicare beneficiaries purchase supplemental Medigap policies to help reduce out-of-pocket costs and provide benefits not currently covered by Medicare.
WASHINGTON — When it comes to breaking quorum in the Legislature, Texas has a history.
In 1979, a dozen state senators nicknamed the “Killer Bees” used filibustering tactics and eventually left the Capitol and hid from Texas Rangers for four days.
When COVID-19 began spreading in the U.S. in March 2020, McKale Santin was working at a nursing home in Burlington, Vermont.
AUSTIN, Texas — At a ceremony on Saturday morning, Austin ISD unveiled a new historical marker commemorating the last location of Austin’s only Black public high school.