In April 2021, President Biden signed two bipartisan bills that aim to promote drug competition and to reduce prescription drug prices—the Ensuring Innovation Act (EIA)1and the Advancing Education on Biosimilars Act of 2021 (Biosimilars Act).2While the Biosimilars Act aims to increase patients' a...
In March, President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act. This stimulus bill included a section on federal student loans. Read on to learn what was included and how it affects your loans. We’ll also dive into the pros and cons of student loan refinancing. How Biden’s stimulus bill ...
President Biden met Thursday afternoon with Senate Democrats, saying "as long as I'm in the White House ... I'm going to be fighting for these bills," hours after Senator Kyrsten Sinema, one of two Senate Democrats known to oppose changes to Senate rules, said Thursday on the Senate flo...
Cooper also vetoed two other bills ahead of his anticipated participation with other Democratic governors in a meeting with President Joe Biden later on Wednesday. One of the bills signed by Cooper focuses on creating a registry under the North Carolina Department of Revenue for certified vapor pr...
But Republican lawmakers have said the overall relief package, which was signed into law by President Joe Biden in March, has caused higher levels of inflation by pumping too much money into the economy. This story was reported from Cincinnati. The Associated Press contributed. DAILY NEWSLETTER ...
The bills still need to be voted on by the Judiciary Committee before arriving to the House of Representatives. The Senate would also need to approve the bills before they can be signed to laws by President Biden.
Though several California bills this year reference the power of the Basel Convention to curb the export of low-value scrap plastic to developing countries, the United States is not a party to the agreement. AJR 4 calls for President Joe Biden to ratify the Basel Convention. ...
Federal student loan payments restarted at the beginning of October afterPresident Bidendeclined to extend the pandemic-era pause that first began in March 2020 under his predecessor, former President Donald Trump. However, 40% of the 22 million borrowers who had bills due failed to make a payme...
Harris introduced a bill to include a statue of Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to Congress and the first Black woman to run for president in 1972, in the Capitol Building. It attracted 16 cosponsors, 15 Democrats and one independent, but never received a vote in ...
On November 15, 2021, President Biden signed into law HR 3684, the “Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act” (the “Act”), commonly referred to as the “infrastructure bill.” The Act allocates funding and other resources focused on roads and bridges, water infrastructur...