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(Washington, D.C.) – Congressman Larry Bucshon, M.D. (IN-08) released the following statement after Democrats passed a bill (H.R. 1644) in the House of Representatives that would reimpose heavy-handed regulation to control the internet:  “In 2015, under the Obama Administration, the Federal Communications Commission… Read more »

The House voted Thursday to reauthorize a 25-year-old law that helps victims of domestic and sexual violence, despite complaints by Republicans that Democrats were politicizing the popular law by expanding gun control. The bill to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act includes a provision making it easier to take away guns from… Read more »

The House Energy & Commerce Committee late Wednesday passed five bills related to generic drug competition, two of which were slightly tweaked to make them bipartisan. Passed by a unanimous 51-0 vote, HR 965, the "Creating and Restoring Equal Access to Equivalent Samples (CREATES) Act of 2019," introduced by six representatives… Read more »

CMS’s Innovation Center “will really be the playing field” for developments in 2019 in an effort to move away from fee-for-service medicine and create new value-based care models, Robert Blaser, director of public policy for the Renal Physicians Association, said in a presentation here. The first target will be development of a… Read more »

February welcomed the annual NAHU conference in Washington D.C. and what an experience it was for everyone involved! The nation’s capital has an incredible energy like no other city. Just walking through the historic streets somehow uplifts the spirits. D.C. is a remarkable place to people watch. It is somehow inspiring to observe this… Read more »

(Washington, D.C.) – Congressman Larry Bucshon, M.D. (IN-08) released the following statement and video after signing the discharge petition to bring the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act to a vote in the House of Representatives: “It is unthinkable that any health care professional would not do everything in their power… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C.--Protecting babies who survive an abortion is the goal of the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. Some Hoosier lawmakers are supporting the act and have signed a petition to bring it to a vote in the U.S. House. “This bill is designed to ensure any baby who is born alive after an attempted abortion receives… Read more »

Representatives Ami Bera, M.D. (D-CA), Scott Peters (D-CA), Larry Bucshon, M.D. (R-IN), and Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) last week introduced H.R. 1841, the Ensuring Access to General Surgery Act. This bill would ensure that we have high-quality data on where general surgeons are in short supply around the country, particularly in rural and… Read more »

Addressing the policy debate surrounding America’s energy, environmental and economic future, Rick Perry on Friday declared the United States both a global leader in fossil fuels and an environmental superpower. But first the energy secretary had to explain why his agency granted six authorizations enabling private companies to sell… Read more »

Counting out the coal industry at this point would be equivalent to counting out American ingenuity and innovation, Energy Secretary Rick Perry said at a forum Friday, while others made a case for preserving coal's place in the fuel mix for reliability and national security purposes. "Looking 10 years into the future and saying this… Read more »