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HOUSE VOTE SET FOR UPDATED 'RIGHT-TO-TRY' LEGISLATION The House will vote Tuesday on updated but still controversial legislation that would give terminally ill patients wider access to prescription drugs that [...]

CONGRESS RECONVENES WITH FOCUS ON OPIOID LEGISLATION Congress reconvenes today after a weeklong recess, and a House subcommittee is scheduled to begin a series of hearings focusing on bipartisan efforts [...]

TRUMP TO RELEASE FISCAL 2019 BUDGET THIS MORNING The White House this morning is releasing President Trump's fiscal 2019 budget blueprint, which will include funding requests for HHS, FDA, CMS [...]

HEALTHCARE PROVISIONS COULD BE TIED TO BUDGET DEAL TO AVERT GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN Congress is expected this week to approve a fifth stopgap budget bill to keep the government open in [...]

HEALTHCARE LIKELY TAKES BACK SEAT IN TRUMP'S STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS After a tumultuous year on Capitol Hill - with repeated efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act and [...]

FEDERAL HEALTHCARE AGENCIES BRACE FOR DISRUPTION AS GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN LOOMS House Republicans will gather tonight for a GOP-only meeting to plot strategy on passing a stopgap budget bill, but a [...]

BILL TO AVERT GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN COULD INCLUDE HEALTHCARE PROVISIONS With less than two weeks before another deadline to avert a government shutdown, Republican leaders on Capitol Hill say they're cautiously [...]

SHUTDOWN SHOWDOWN: CHIP, OTHER HEALTH PROVISIONS AT RISK AS DEADLINE NEARS Renewal of the Children's Health Insurance Program and a host of other healthcare provisions hang in the balance as [...]

CONGRESS SCRAMBLES THIS WEEK TO AVERT GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN. Congressional Republicans face a Friday deadline to approve a stopgap budget bill to avert a government shutdown, delaying until later this month [...]

CONGRESS RECONVENES WITH DAUNTING HEALTHCARE TO-DO LIST Lawmakers returning to Capitol Hill this week after the Thanksgiving recess face a daunting series of tax and budget deadlines that will set [...]

SENATE COMMITTEES TO REVIEW TRUMP'S HHS PICK The year-end schedules of the Senate HELP and Finance committees just became more clogged, as the two panels will lead the review of [...]

December Most Likely Timetable for CHIP Even After House Approval The House last week voted to renew the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) through 2022, but disagreements over how to [...]

House Plans CHIP Vote This Week but Final Action Not Likely Until December House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said lawmakers will vote this week on legislation to renew federal [...]

White House Eyes Panel on Drug Prices While Senators Call for Transparency President Donald Trump is considering appointing lawmakers to a bipartisan commission that would develop strategies to lower prescription [...]

Democrats and Some Republicans Say Congress Must Restore Insurer Subsidies President Trump's announcement Friday that he would stop cost-sharing payments to insurance companies triggered a firestorm on Capitol Hill, with [...]

Senate Reconvenes but No Health Votes Expected This Week The Senate reconvenes today following the Fourth of July recess, but senators are at least a week away - and perhaps [...]

Searching for 50 Votes: Changes to Health Bill, CBO Score Coming This Week Senate Republican leaders are expected to make a series of changes to the healthcare legislation released Thursday [...]

CBO Score of House Health Bill Set for This Week Congress's official budget scorekeepers this week will release analysis of the House-approved bill repealing most of the Affordable Care Act [...]

No vote this week, but GOP leaders vow action on health bill Although House Republicans made progress on bridging ideological differences over how to replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), [...]

GOP leaders face pushback on new health plan Republican leaders on Capitol Hill face growing cross pressures from different factions of GOP lawmakers over their emerging legislation to replace the [...]

'Take it or leave it' Some conservatives say it represents 'Obamacare lite,' not the full repeal they have campaigned on for years. Other Republicans are mindful of policy decisions impacting [...]

President Trump will address a joint session of Congress on Tuesday, and the expectation is that he will use the primetime moment to outline - at least in broad strokes [...]

At HHS, Price will lead Trump's efforts on ACA repeal Three weeks into President Trump's administration, the Senate on Friday narrowly approved Tom Price as Secretary of the U.S. Department [...]

At GOP retreat, consensus on healthcare elusive House and Senate Republicans emerged from a policy retreat last week in Philadelphia with no agreement on next steps in their plan to [...]

New Congress targets ACA repeal Republican congressional leaders overseeing the new 115th Congress will trigger a legislative process this week which will likely culminate in February with the repeal of [...]

House Passes Cures Legislation After months of debate and partisan wrangling, the House on Wednesday voted 392-26 to pass the '21st Century Cures' bill designed to accelerate the development of [...]

Republicans' biggest issue will be what to do with the 20 million Americans who have gained coverage under the ACA. Congress reconvened this week for the first time since Donald [...]

With Congress reconvening after a seven-week summer recess, we wanted to provide you with a quick topline of key healthcare issues lawmakers are expected to consider this week. Zika Funding [...]

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The author reflects on the need to improve the quality of public education in Idaho. According to him, the important issues to be resolved include the devotion of the financial resources to the education of children and allocation of those resources among those children. He opines that there is a decline of 20 percent in the share of the resources devoted to the public schools.