Both the House and Senate are in Congress this week as the House will focus will be on demonstrating support for Israel following this weekend’s Iranian led attack and the Senate will deal with the articles of impeachment against Secretary of Homeland Security Alexander Mayorkas. The House will take up 12 bills under suspension of the rules (requiring a two... Read More
WHG - Weekly, April 8, 2024
The Senate returns from a two-week spring recess today and the House will return tomorrow. The big agenda item this week will occur on Wednesday when House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) delivers the House passed articles of impeachment against Secretary of Homeland Security Alexander Mayorkas to the Senate. On Thursday all Senators will be sworn in as jurors and Senate... Read More
WHG - Weekly, April 1, 2024
The House and Senate are on spring recess again this week. After finally passing the fiscal year 2024 bills prior to leaving town, action on an emergency spending package will await Congress upon their return. In addition to funding for war and humanitarian efforts in Ukraine, Israel, Gaza, and Taiwan, approximately $1 billion in emergency funding is needed to address... Read More
WHG - Weekly, March 25, 2024
The House and the Senate are both on a two-week spring recess after finally passing the last of the fiscal year (FY) 2024 appropriations bills over the weekend. Six months into the fiscal year, Congress passed a minibus package of six appropriations bills, including the Labor-HHS bill that funds the Department of Health and Human Services. President Biden signed the... Read More
WHG - Weekly, March 18, 2024
Happy Anniversary to the Affordable Care Act which was signed into law 14 years ago this week! The House and Senate are both in session this week as we once again countdown towards the expiration of the Continuing Resolution (CR) that is currently funding the last six fiscal year (FY) 2024 appropriations bills, including the bill that funds the Department... Read More
WHG - Weekly, March 11, 2024
The House and Senate are both in session today as the President releases his Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 budget request. The budget request kicks off the start of the FY 2025 budget process, just days after six of the 12 FY 2024 appropriations bills were finally enacted. Included with the first six appropriations bills that was enacted was a long... Read More
WHG - Weekly, March 4, 2024
This week promises to be a busy one in Washington! Almost halfway into the fiscal year (FY), this week the House and Senate are poised to finally pass six of the 12 FY 2024 appropriations bills as well as a long-awaited healthcare package. Text was released on the Agriculture, Energy and Water, MilCon-VA, Transportation-HUD, Commerce-Justice-Science, and Interior spending bills at... Read More
WHG - Weekly, February 26, 2024
The House and Senate return to Washington this week with just days to avert a March 1 shutdown for agencies funded under the Agriculture, Energy and Water, MilCon-VA and Transportation-HUD spending bills. The Senate comes back into session this afternoon, while the House will come back on Wednesday afternoon. The remainder of the federal government has until March 8 before... Read More
WHG - Weekly, February 20, 2024
The House and Senate are both out this week for President’s Day recess. Almost two months into 2024, the focus in Washington has largely been on finishing priorities from last year including the fiscal year (FY) 2024 appropriations, creating a passable foreign aid package, and negotiating a health care package, rather than starting fresh with new initiatives. This week we... Read More
WHG - Weekly, February 12, 2024
The Senate was supposed to be on recess this week, however, they have been in session all weekend debating a foreign aid package. After Senate Republicans blocked the bipartisan package that included immigration reforms last week, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer proceeded with a $95 billion foreign aid-only bill that includes $60 billion to support Ukraine in its fight against... Read More
WHG - Weekly, February 5, 2024
Yesterday afternoon, the Senate released the text of an $118 billion border security and foreign aid supplemental bill that would, among other things, tighten the standard for migrants to receive asylum and allow the border to automatically shut down if migrant crossings hit specific daily numbers. The bill provides $60 billion for war efforts in Ukraine, $14 billion in security... Read More
WHG - Weekly, January 29, 2024
The House returns today after being on recess last week, and the Senate is scheduled to come back into session tomorrow. This week the House could bring up the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 2024, a bipartisan bill to expand the Child Tax Credit and provide an assortment of business tax benefits. The Senate will be... Read More
WHG - Weekly, January 22, 2024
The House is in recess this week after both bodies passed another laddered continuing resolution (CR) keeping the government in operation until March 1 for the for the Agriculture, Energy and Water, MilCon-VA and Transportation-HUD spending bills and March 8 for the remaining federal agencies. The House passed the measure on a bipartisan vote of 314-108 with roughly half of... Read More
WHG - Weekly, January 16, 2024
The House and Senate are both in session this week as the first of the two “laddered” Continuing Resolutions (CR) is set to expire on Friday, along with the health care extenders that are keeping programs such as the Community Health Centers, the Teaching Health Center GME program, the National Health Service Corps, and the Special Diabetes Program in operation,... Read More
WHG - Key Provisions of Legislative Proposals on Health Care Price Transparency Requirements for Providers, Plans, and Issuers
A potential health package that could be advanced with the fiscal year 2024 spending bill due January 19 may include legislative proposals to improve price transparency. In this memo, we present a comparison of legislative proposals that would codify and improve the 2019 Hospital Price Transparency rule (84 FR 65524) and the 2020 Transparency in Coverage rule (85 FR 72158):... Read More
WHG - Weekly, January 8, 2023
Happy New Year! Welcome back to what will be a frantic couple of weeks on Capitol Hill. The Senate comes back into session today and the House will return tomorrow. Over the weekend House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) reached a deal (Republican statement/Democratic statement and outline) on top line spending which includes $772.7... Read More
WHG - Regulatory Outlook: Fall 2023 Unified Agenda
The Biden Administration recently released its Fall 2023 Unified Agenda, which outlines regulatory plans for federal agencies over the coming year. The Unified Agenda reflects the Biden Administration’s continued priority on policies addressing health. In our regulatory outlook, we highlight rulemaking on coverage and payment, public health and safety, and cross-cutting topics, including mental and behavioral health, drug pricing, and... Read More
WHG - Weekly, December 18, 2023
The House left town last week for holiday recess without any further action on the President’s emergency foreign aid supplemental request. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has kept the Senate in town this week filling the floor schedule with nominations in hopes that a deal can be reached to provide additional funds to Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, and our own... Read More
WHG - Weekly, December 11, 2023
This week Congress is in a mad dash to finish legislative priorities before recessing for three weeks of winter break. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will address an all-Senators meeting on Tuesday, as well as meet with House leaders, to try and inject some life into the stalling negotiations on the President’s emergency foreign aid supplemental request that would provide additional... Read More
WHG - Weekly, December 4, 2023
Both the House and Senate are in session this week, for a busy two week stretch before recessing for the winter holidays. This week the House is set to take up a series of bills including the TRANQ Research Act, which would require the National Institute of Standards and Technology to coordinate science and research activities regarding illegal drugs containing... Read More
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