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Congress is once again tossing around a piece of legislation that will do more for big government than for Americans. While intended to lower out-of-pocket costs for prescription drugs and treatments, H.R. 3 could take away mature adults’ ability to make their own healthcare decisions and put it in the hands of the federal government. Government interference not only imposes on the patient-provider relationship, but it also puts mature adults’ health at risk by restricting what treatments should be at their finger tips. Millions of retirees rely on the Medicare program because it provides access to various treatments for chronic...

Americans want health care to be less expensive. We also want our health care to be the most innovative in the world. The key to simultaneously achieving both of these goals is good public policy. Back in September, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) introduced H.R. 3, also known as the Lower Drug Costs Now Act of 2019, into the House of Representatives with 105 co-sponsors, all Democrats. The House is set to vote on the bill this week. H.R. 3 would adopt international reference pricing for the Medicare program in an effort to lower drug costs....

Awesome news! The Republicans are standing by their word. They have just introduced HR 3 (number signifies importance to Republicans)! In this bill, siphoning money to fund abortions will be made illegal. One day we will acknowledge before God’s Throne that crimes against humanity include murder of over 50 million American children. This is the number of deaths caused by Supreme Court judges who in 1973, went beyond our constitutional boundaries, and refused to allow States to protect the life of our defenseless children. Republican Congressman Chris Smith alongside of House Speaker John Boehner, revealed that “When there’s no public...

H.R. 3 SUMMARY AS OF: 1/4/2007--Introduced. Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct and support research that utilizes human embryonic stem cells, regardless of the date on which the stem cells were derived from a human embryo. Limits such research to stem cells that meet the following ethical requirements: (1) the stem cells were derived from human embryos donated from in vitro fertilization clinics for the purpose of fertility treatment and were in excess of the needs of the individuals seeking such...

The U.S. bishops urged the House of Representatives to reject a bill that would fund research requiring the destruction of human embryos. The bishops called instead for greater support for more promising and morally acceptable research, using stem cells from adult tissues and from the byproducts of live birth such as cord blood, amniotic fluid and placentas.  The appeal was made in a January 9 letter from Cardinal Justin Rigali, chairman of the Bishops' Committee for Pro-Life Activities.   "The sad reality is that many promising avenues of medical progress have received inadequate funding and attention on the road to human...

WASHINGTON - The Senate moved Monday to add about $11 billion to a six-year highway and transit bill, putting it on a collision course with the Bush administration and a threatened veto. Senate leaders said the revised package with the extra money, which would raise spending for the long-delayed legislation to about $295 billion, would be paid for by finding new revenue for the federal highway trust fund. A vote on the bill, including the $11 billion addition, could come by the end of the week. But Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta, in a statement put out in anticipation of the...

The House approved a mammoth highway and transit bill Thursday that aims to reduce traffic congestion nationwide and bring jobs to every lawmaker's home district. The White House said the bill was "long overdue" but warned, as the measure moved to the Senate, that it would be subject to a presidential veto if it rose above the $284 billion the House approved. The bill, passed 417-9, would guarantee $225.5 billion over a six-year period to the Federal Highway Administration, $52.3 billion to the Federal Transit Administration and more than $6 billion for safety programs. It will be "the signature domestic...