End-of-2026 Health Policy Landscape: What Congress Could Address Before Year-End

The Week in Review Following the Labor Day holiday on Monday, Congress made its long awaited return to Washington for a month-long legislative period before the body breaks again ahead of November’s elections. The Senate picked up exactly where it left off in July with a partisan impasse on both a defense spending bill (H.R. […]

The Week in Review While lawmakers spent the final week of summer campaigning in their districts and prepared for a sprint of a September session, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump made a high-profile trip to Mexico, followed by speech in Arizona where he outlined a 10-point plan on illegal immigration. Standing on a stage in […]

The Week in Review Last week, both presidential candidates sharpened their rhetoric against each other with Hillary Clinton seeking to link Donald Trump to white nationalism and the “alternative right” and Trump responding by casting Clinton as a “bigot.” While name-calling is hardly a new development in presidential campaigns, there is little doubt that Clinton […]

The Week in Review Donald Trump stayed in the headlines last week after his campaign decided to make a number of changes in their campaign structure. Steve Bannon, executive chairman of the ultra-conservative Breitbart News, was named chief executive of the campaign while Kellyanne Conaway, a senior adviser and longtime conservative pollster, was promoted to […]

The Week in Review In the presidential race, nominees Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump delivered a pair of policy speeches intended to outline competing visions for the U.S. economy. The latter called for a freeze on all financial regulation, the renegotiation of major trade deals, and the implementation of a child care deduction in the […]

The Week in Review In the presidential race, Hillary Clinton opened a significant lead in the latest polls following the Democratic National Convention and a series of controversies involving her opponent, Donald Trump. With just under 100 days until the election, Clinton has approached a double digit lead nationally and carries an advantage beyond the […]

The Week in Review Following the Republican convention in Cleveland two weeks ago, Democrats convened in Philadelphia last week to officially nominate Hillary Clinton for President. The biggest scandal of the convention struck before the gavel even dropped as Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schulz (D-FL) was forced to resign amid the release […]

The Week in Review With Congress starting its seven-week recess, the Republican Party held its national convention in Cleveland, Ohio to formally nominate Donald Trump for President. While many observers expected the convention to serve as a lightning rod for protests, the fireworks mostly came from the speaker’s podium as Republican stalwarts, celebrities, and numerous […]

Looking Ahead Near Term The Republican National Convention starts today and runs through Thursday. The Democratic National Convention starts one week from today and runs through Thursday, July 28th Further Out Congress returns from its recess on September 6th. Funding for the Federal Government expires on September 30th. Presidential election will be on November 8th. 

Week in Review Congress worked through a packed agenda in their final week before the national party conventions and the traditional summer break. While lawmakers were able to reach important agreements on opioid funding and a reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), they left other important issues – including funding for combatting the Zika […]

The Week in Review In a busy week for the House, lawmakers approved a number of bills under suspension of the rules, including a measure altering regulations related to crowdfunding (H.R. 4855) and a long-awaited bill reforming mental health services (H.R. 2646). The mental health bill, which among other provisions would create an Assistant Secretary […]

Our Take The 2015 Congressional calendar was one defined by a series of statutorily imposed deadlines that gave us a modicum of certainty – in as much as that is ever possible with the United States Congress – of when, and in most cases “what” was coming down the pike.   This year, and perhaps in […]