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By Victoria Knight & Maya Goldman The new Republican members of the Ways and Means and Energy and Commerce committees are ready to work on Medicare, prescription drug costs, telehealth policies, PBMs and more. Here's what we're hearing from the Republicans we chased down in the halls this week and the staffers we bothered when their bosses escaped… Read more »

By HANNAH BLEAU Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL) introduced the Vaccine Mandate Reenlistment Act, which would essentially pave the way for those unfairly discharged from service due to the vaccine mandate to rejoin the military. According to a press release announcing the bill, it would “ensure that any soldier, sailor, Airman or Marine who was discharged for refusing the… Read more »

Analysis by Maxine Joselow with research by Vanessa Montalbano Republican lawmakers are claiming that the Consumer Product Safety Commission wants to take away people’s gas stoves, in what they say is the latest example of the Biden administration’s regulatory overreach, Maxine reports.   In reality, the commission is not going to snatch… Read more »

By Adam Jacobson With the start of the 117th U.S. Congress, the House Energy and Commerce Republican Leader became Cathy McMorris Rodgers, who succeeded the now-retired Greg Walden. Now, with the 118th Congress underway, Rodgers has risen to the top leadership position of the powerful committee that has oversight of the FCC on Capitol Hill. On Wednesday, she… Read more »

By Cablefax Staff  A day after Rep Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) officially took over as chair of House Commerce, we’re getting word of the new GOP members joining the committee that is most often involved in issues of broadband/cable and technology. Newbies include Jay Obernolte (R-CA), a computer engineer and video game developer with a degree in… Read more »

By Henry Rodgers A group of House Republicans, led by Georgia Rep. Buddy Carter, sent a letter Wednesday to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) calling on them to rescind their early January decision to allow pharmacies to dispense the abortion-inducing drug mifepristone. The letter was first obtained by the Daily Caller and addressed to the Commissioner of the FDA Robert Califf.… Read more »

U.S. Rep. Rick W. Allen announced that Lakeside High School students Amber Verma, Aditi Umapathy and Joseph Alackara were selected as the winners of the 2022 Congressional App Challenge for Georgia’s 12th District. The students were chosen for their work developing Timely, a software application designed to aid productivity in individuals with attention deficit hyperactivity… Read more »

By: BRIAN CROCE  The Department of Labor's new rule permitting retirement plan fiduciaries to consider climate change and other environmental, social and governance factors when selecting investments and exercising shareholder rights is a regulatory return to normal and takes more of a neutral approach than the proposal on which it was based, industry experts said. "I think the… Read more »

BY THE GEORGIA VIRTUE Senator Jon Ossoff’s bipartisan legislation to rename the Atlanta VA Regional Office in honor of Georgia’s late U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson is now law. Sen. Ossoff’s bipartisan law will rename the VA regional office in Decatur, Georgia, as the “Senator Johnny Isakson Department of Veterans Affairs Atlanta Regional Office” to honor Isakson for his… Read more »

By: MIL-OSI Publisher US Senate News: Source: United States Senator for Wisconsin Ron Johnson WASHINGTON— On Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) joined U.S. Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.) and 67 of their Republican colleagues in writing a letter to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) opposing the Board’s joint employer proposed rule that is inconsistent with common law,… Read more »