Sentences with phrase «health committee last»

During a meeting of the county Legislature's health committee last week, Legislator Ed Romaine (R - Center Moriches) brought up the issue of pediatric care following coverage of the issue by several media outlets.

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That brings me, at long last, to the second long document I read this week: the May 24 cost estimate by the Congressional Budget Office and Joint Committee on Taxation of H.R. 1628, the American Health Care Act of 2017.

The drugmaker's political action committee spent $ 405,000 on federal campaign donations and other political outlays last year, more than in 2016 — an election year — and nearly double its allocation for 2015, data compiled by Kaiser Health News show.

«Federal taxpayer subsidies are helping pay for over 1,000 health plans that cover abortion on demand, and [last week's] Supreme Court decision underscores that only Congress can put a stop to that,» said Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life Committee (NRLC).

Gottlieb made the statements at a confirmation hearing last Wednesday before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.

In the last few weeks I've been surprised to find myself in the role of School Food Reform Naysayer, which isn't what you'd expect from someone who serves on her district's Food Services Parent Advisory Committee and its Student Health Advisory Council and who is a daily kid - and - food blogger.

In the last few weeks I've been surprised to find myself in the role of School Food Reform Naysayer, which isn't what you'd expect from someone who serves on her district's Food Services Parent Advisory Committee and its Student Health Advisory... [Continue reading]

That post, along with similar input from the HISD Nutrition Services Parent Advisory Committee, encouraged the district to change course; at our School Health Advisory Council meeting last month, it was announced that the district's online nutrition information now includes sugar grams as well (see photo to the right).

At the May 19 meeting, activists and area pet owners again urged the three committee members to support a ban on sales from commercial breeders, citing inhumane conditions in puppy mills that can give pets lasting health problems.

But these were rejected by his fellow MEPs in the European Parliament's Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee (ENVI) last week, meaning only the objection to sugary baby food was put to the vote at today's plenary session in Strasbourg.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee last week launched new salvos against Republican Reps. John Faso and Claudia Tenney over their votes in support of the American Health Care Act, the House GOP bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

Heastie joked during my last interview with him that pretty much every member of the conference wanted the job, though Assembly Health Committee Chair Dick Gottfried, the longest - serving member of the Assembly, insisted that he's perfectly happy where he has been for the past 30 years.

Despite Gov. Andrew Cuomo not ruling out supporting Republicans this year, Democratic Senate Campaign Committee Chairman Mike Gianaris remains upbeat, telling Liz last night on the show that Cuomo will ultimately settle with the minority conference given their agreement on bread - and - butter party issues such as women's» health and increasing the state's minimum wage.

Step forward, then, Peter Bone - standing for the Chairmanship of the Health Select Committee - John Baron, contesting Foreign Affairs (Baron pursued Ministers energetically about Iraq during the last Parliament) and, in the Defence Select Committee poll, no fewer than three of the candidates: Julian Lewis, Patrick Mercer and, above all, Douglas Carswell (one half of the Carswell - Hannan «Cannon» dynamic duo).

In the immediate wake of the House's narrow passage of the health care bill last week, the Democratic campaign committees launched digital ads attacking Republicans, even those who didn't vote for the bill.

Sen. Kemp Hannon (R - Garden City), chairman of the Senate Health Committee, noted that Mylan Pharmaceutical has raised the price by more than 75 percent over the last year, bringing the cost of a two - pen set to $ 600.

A 2004 draft mental health bill had to be scrapped because of the overwhelming opposition, and last night Liberal Democrat peer Lord Carlile, who chaired the scrutiny committee into that bill, warned the new legislation faced a similar fate.

Larkin cast the deciding vote last month that allowed the Compassionate Care Act to move out of the Health Committee.

The Republicans initially cited «Obamacare» in the wake of the same - sex marriage bill passage as the reason why they wouldn't follow the Assembly's lead last summer and pass the health care exhange bill, even though one of their veteran members, Senate Health Committee Chairman Kemp Hannon, had been involved in drafting the measure and supporthealth care exhange bill, even though one of their veteran members, Senate Health Committee Chairman Kemp Hannon, had been involved in drafting the measure and supportHealth Committee Chairman Kemp Hannon, had been involved in drafting the measure and supported it.

The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole in a presentation before the Senate Committee on Health in Abuja last week Thursday explained that the current outbreak began in a village in Niger State sometime in August 2015, but patients were not treated properly due to the ignorance of the villagers.

Republican Sen. Kemp Hannon, the chairman of the chamber's Health Committee, called last month for Schneiderman to investigate the company.

Questioned by the Commons health select committee last week, Hunt admitted that a further deterioration in social care services would intensify the pressures on the NHS.

Last year, the big issue turned out to be medical marijuana, which Gottfried, the head of the Assembly health committee since 1987, had been pushing for for decades.

[46] Swartz led the first activism event of his career with the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, delivering thousands of «Honor Kennedy» petition signatures to Massachusetts legislators asking them to fulfill former Senator Ted Kennedy's last wish by appointing a senator to vote for health care reform.

Frelinghuysen, chair of the Appropriations Committee, is a Democratic target this cycle, and he's facing fresh heat for voting for the Republican health care bill last week.

Senate Health Committee Chairman Kemp Hannon on Thursday called on Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office to investigate the hike in the cost of EpiPens after its manufacturer boosted the price in the last year by 75 percent.

During a Capital Tonight interview last night, Assembly Education Committee Chair Cathy Nolan recognized the «triple threat» faced by the state, financially speaking, at the moment: Lower than expected PIT revenues, a $ 4 billion deficit and the feds planning to do «who knows what» when it comes to health care reform.

Democratic Assemblyman Richard Gottfried, who chairs the health committee, called on the state last week to include sufficient funding in the upcoming Medicaid budget to pay home care employees for every hour worked.

She was elected in 2010, sits on the Health Select Committee and nominated Andy Burnham for leader last year.

Craig Lopez, chairman of the county legislature's Public Health and Social Services Committee, didn't make it to the executive's «ACA forum» at the county office building last month, but then neither did two - thirds of the legislature.

He serves on the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Health Subcommittee, and last year he authored a section of important health legislation that speeds the process for new drugs to be approved through clinical tHealth Subcommittee, and last year he authored a section of important health legislation that speeds the process for new drugs to be approved through clinical thealth legislation that speeds the process for new drugs to be approved through clinical trials.

«The increased interdependency of countries, economies, and cultures resulting from tremendous growth in international travel and trade over the last several decades has brought improved access to goods and services, but also a variety of health threats,» said Jendayi Frazer, co-chair of the committee that conducted the study and wrote the report and adjunct senior fellow for Africa studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Last week, for the second time in 6 months, opposition from several scientists on National Institutes of Health director Harold Varmus's influential Advisory Committee to the Director forced him to withdraw a plan to establish a small graduate school on the NIH campus that would enroll 15 students a year for a 5 - year Ph.D. program in disease - oriented, integrative biology.

Instead, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) may send Collin's nomination — apparently unopposed — to the full Senate for an all - or - nothing «unanimous consent» vote sometime next week — the last chance before the Senate goes on August recess.

Last December, the Physicians Committee filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services claiming the agencies work in concert with the dairy industry to promote milk products through official dietary guidelines.

Lawmakers on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) committee held the last of three meetings to approve bills that, once bundled together, will form a companion to the House of Representatives's mammoth 21st Century Cures bill.

Asked why WHO convened the emergency committee only this week, WHO Assistant Director - General Keiji Fukuda this morning said the organization was initially focused on coordinating the response on the ground and on raising awareness and drumming up political support, for instance at a meeting of health ministers in Accra in early July and a meeting with Chan and West African presidents last week.

McCabe has in fact become one of the federal government's top advisers on these matters since the secretary of Health and Human Services tapped him last December to head the department's advisory committee on genetics, health, and soHealth and Human Services tapped him last December to head the department's advisory committee on genetics, health, and sohealth, and society.

Of course, the NIH is just as concerned with health research as it is with educational training, but reviewers and staff have traditionally been «reluctant» to fund projects that involve computation, an NIH advisory committee wrote last year.

Despite this uncertainty, the Department of Health decided last week to allow the UK Coordinating Committee on Cancer Research to seek local approval for the trial at each centre taking part.

The so - called emergency committee of public health experts, which WHO established on 5 July, met for the first time last week.

The bill was passed by Uganda's Parliament last December, but Museveni declined to sign it until a specially appointed committee of researchers and health officials pronounced on the causes of homosexuality.

The study, published in the newest special issue of Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, was mentioned in a presentation on the topic of medical marijuana to the New Mexico Legislative Health & Human Services Committee last November, and is now available from Routledge Journals with Free Access.

As chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, Alexander was also a key negotiator in hammering out agreements between the Senate and the House of Representatives on the Cures bill unveiled last Friday.

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, the ranking Democrat on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, announced the idea in a speech delivered here last month to the Center for National Policy.

The Plymouth, Mass., school committee reopened the Indian Brook Elementary School last week after health officials reported that the building did not pose a health hazard for students and teachers.

The school committee had decided last month not to reopen the school until health officials had studied environmental conditions...

Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael O. Leavitt unveiled the plan last month in a letter to Rep. Ralph Regula, R - Ohio, the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee's Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies.

As Congress gears up for reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, questions from key lawmakers last week at the first hearing on the subject by the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee gave a sense of their priorities.

At a hearing on the issue last week, Lamar Alexander, chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), was clearly sympathetic to arguments by several witnesses that Congress should keep the testing mandate but dump the rules that prescribe how states must hold schools accountable for test results.