WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) today chaired a hearing of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Subcommittee on Coast Guard, Maritime, and Fisheries which examined how to modernize and accelerate U.S. commercial and Navy shipbuilding while strengthening America’s broader maritime industrial base. In his opening remarks and questions of witnesses, Sen. Sullivan focused on the current […]
Washington, D.C. – Monday, U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Thom Tillis (R-NC), and Mark Warner (D-VA) reintroduced the Telehealth Response for E-prescribing Addiction Therapy Services (TREATS) Act. This bipartisan legislation addresses regulatory hurdles to accessing telehealth services for opioid use disorder by making permanent the resources that were made available during the […]
“The solution is straightforward, and the deadline is imminent,” state lawmakers write in a new letter to Republican leaders, blaming them for the “manufactured healthcare crisis.” Dozens of US state legislators have signed a scathing letter pushing congressional Republicans to immediately back an extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies that are set to lapse at the end of the […]
An advocate for the National Homelessness Law Center warned that the 1,300-bed facility could be a “pilot” to put homeless people into similar conditions to Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz.” In an effort to fulfill President Donald Trump’s executive order on homelessness, Utah is building a massive facility that housing advocates warn will function as an “internment camp” where the unhoused will […]