ADEA Washington Update

Immigration and border security issues remain a point of great controversy, with House Republicans having tried to pass legislation twice, both times unsuccessfully. The two bills authored by House Republicans would have amended immigration regulations, funded the border wall and provided a path to citizenship for Deferred Action for... Click Here To Read More

Activity pertinent to academic dentistry within the House Committee on Energy and Commerce centers on the opioid crisis and the health care workforce. On June 27, the Subcommittee on Health marked up five bills and several amendments, including H.R. 3728, Educating Medical Professionals and Optimizing Workforce Efficiency Readiness Act (... Click Here To Read More

The House voted 359–49 in favor of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2019 (H.R. 6157), which calls for $674.6 billion for defense and intelligence programs in FY19. The total is $20 billion above FY18. The legislation includes a 2.6% pay raise for... Click Here To Read More

Replacing Justice Anthony M. Kennedy is newly at the top of the Senate's summer agenda following Justice Kennedy’s retirement announcement. Three Senate Democrats who voted for Justice Neil Gorsuch—Sens. Joe Manchin III (D-WV), Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) and Joe Donnelly (D-IN)—along with Republican Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME), Lisa Murkowski... Click Here To Read More

On June 28, the Senate Committee on Appropriations marked up its version of the Labor-HHS appropriations bill.

The Senate’s Labor-HHS bill provides a total of $181.2 billion in discretionary budget authority—$2.2 billion more than the 2018 appropriated level, including $90.1 billion for HHS (a $2.3 billion increase) and... Click Here To Read More

Under the Trump Administration, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has sought to reduce or limit many regulatory measures they believe impede care coordination and delivery. CMS issued a Request for Information ... Click Here To Read More

Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) launched an interagency taskforce that included federal and state law enforcement officials and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to tackle the opioid crisis. On June 28, the Attorney General and the Secretary of HHS ... Click Here To Read More

The Supreme Court of the United States’ latest term was packed with news-making decisions, from the same-sex wedding cake to travel bans to voting rights to gerrymandering to public unions and pregnancy-counseling services; the Court was impactful even when the Justices decided not to decide. The term saw a more conservative shift on the... Click Here To Read More

On June 26, in a 5–4 decision, the Supreme Court upheld the legality of President Trump’s Presidential Proclamation No. 9645, saying it does not violate the establishment clause[1]. The proclamation sought to ban travel to the United States primarily by people living in Muslim-majority countries.

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On July 19, ADEA will host a congressional briefing to examine the impact of funding for dental education and training programs on rural communities and the opioid crisis. Title VII, Section 748 of the Public Health Service Act (PHSA) authorizes programs to support and develop... Click Here To Read More