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Public
health: The (silent) cure for Ebola
to get cut in budgets
and why the infrastructure of public health has been so eroded over the past
decade. ... something called the sequester, a series
of cuts were made as part of a federal plan to institute ‘fiscal ...
10/18/2014
Is
Obama trying to quietly close the SBA with policies?
around the issue of federal
small business programs, an obvious pattern can be seen. They all hurt ... in federal
small business contracts. The result, every year of the Obama Administration,
billions of dollars ... in federal small business contracts have been
diverted to Fortune 500 firms, their subsidiaries and hundreds ...
10/18/2014
Are
signing statements another example of executive overreach?
eliminated certain portions
of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, under the authority of the Line Item
Veto Act ... statements. During the Nixon administration, a federal
district court ruled that signing statements ...
10/18/2014
Van
Hollen: Cuts to CDC, NIH ‘short-sighted’
that sequestration cuts across the federal
government were part of a bipartisan budget agreement. But Van Hollen ... Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), the top Democrat on the House Budget
Committee, said Friday that Congress ... in the U.S. response to Ebola should be a
lesson. "I hope, as Congress considers the budgets ...
10/17/2014
Dems to HHS: Stop ‘staggering’ generic drug price increases
to prevent the increasing
costs of generic drugs. “The federal government must act immediately ...
but also the federal government. “These huge price increases are
affecting the pocketbooks and health of millions ... affecting the budgets
of Medicare, Medicaid, the Department of Defense, and the Department of Veterans ...
10/17/2014
Scalise: US health agencies have 'all the funds they need'
Scalise said. Asked about concerns over the
effect of budget cuts on federal health agencies, Scalise ...
10/16/2014
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