Pressure Mounts for Presidential Actions on Drug Prices When it comes to seniors’ issues, the main focus of Congress continues to be on the high cost of prescription drugs.  The Republicans in the Senate continue to u ...

Congress Finally Acts - Government Will Not Shut Down  After a delay of over six months, Congress was finally able last week to pass the legislation needed to fund the federal government for the remainder of fiscal ye ...

State of the Union Speech and Health Care In his State of the Union speech last week President Biden, understandably, spent a great deal of time on foreign policy, and specifically Ukraine, but he also emphasized a nu ...

Congress Saves the Postal Service but Shifts Costs to Medicare Recently we reported that the House of Representatives had passed a bill that would go a long way toward keeping the U.S. Postal Service solvent and in bu ...

Congress Still Working to Stop Government Shutdown It does not get covered much in the news, but Congress still has not been able to pass the legislation needed to fund the government through the rest of the 2022 fisc ...

Supreme Court Vacancy Shuffles Senate Schedule Congress is back in session this week after being out of session last week. They already had their hands full with the amount of work they need to do and the announcement ...

Efforts to Lower Drug Prices Still Alive Unless you do not pay attention to the news at all, you know that passing legislation to lower the prices of prescription drugs in the Senate has two main obstacles: in additio ...

Congress Returns to Washington The members of Congress returned to Washington last week and began what is known as the Second Session of the 117th Congress.  They have a full agenda to deal with including some very pr ...

This past weekend West Virginia Democratic Senator Joe Manchin announced he will not vote to pass the legislation that would lower prescription drug prices. The drug price reduction provision is part of the “Build Back B ...