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The Hill: Congress Blog

US climate policy must protect forests and communities, not the forest industry
The introduction of The Green New Deal resolution and the appointment of a House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, has propelled climate change back into the national policy debate. That’s why today, on the International Day of Forests,...
US should sanction Hezbollah-controlled govts. to counter attack tunnels in Lebanon
Last month American and U.N. ambassadors toured a Hezbollah attack tunnel stretching from Lebanon into Israel and designed for killing and kidnapping Israelis. These officials saw Hezbollah’s earthworks up close, which is more...
The next step for justice reform: Ending the ban on federal Pell Grants for eligible students behind bars
The passage of the FIRST STEP Act was a significant accomplishment in criminal justice reform—and an indicator of the strength of the bipartisan will to fix what’s broken in our system. Supporters as ideologically diverse as the American...
Don't enact a law that diminishes the incentive for generic companies to challenge patents
Prescription drugs in the United States cost more than anywhere else in the world, and patients feel the pain of high prices every day. The cost is largely driven by the price of brand-name drugs, which account for only 10 percent of drugs sold, but...
Solving climate change the American way
Global warming is an existential crisis. The overwhelming consensus in the scientific community is that global warming will threaten the prosperity and security of not only every American, but people around the world.To address this threat with the...
The fear of colorectal cancer as a springboard for change
The numbers are moving in the wrong direction for our younger generations. And it’s scary.Increasingly, millennials are getting—and dying from—colorectal cancer. As a tail-end baby boomer and parent, every time I see...
Further evidence that critics of Association Health Plans are wrong: Ask the CBO
The Small Business Majority – a vocal critic of association health plans (AHPs) – recently told the House Small Business Committee that AHPs would “encourage younger, healthier groups to purchase inadequate coverage, thus increasing costs for most...
Seniors win big with Trump rebate rule
The Senate Finance Committee is committed to lowering drug costs. It recently invited a slew of major players in the drug supply chain to testify before Congress about their role in keeping prices high for patients at the pharmacy counter."Middlemen...
The politics and practicalities of impeachment
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) declaration that she is “not for impeachment” was met with defiance in some quarters of the Democratic caucus and howls from the instant experts on cable news.Some saw a dereliction of Constitutional duty,...
Strengthen labor union reporting requirements to expose corruption
I have spent my entire private sector career and my time in Congress focused on improving the lives of American workers, and the new Democratic majority in the U.S. House of Representatives insists they share that goal. In the Committee on Education...

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