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Physician and Republican U.S. senator from Louisiana since 2015, previously a House member from 2009; has chaired the Senate HELP Committee.
Heidi Overton, Trump's FDA nominee, helped craft the justification for cutting CDC-recommended childhood vaccines from 17 to 11, Semafor reported. The Senate health committee left without voting on her nomination, so confirmation falls to the lame-duck session.
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Senators passed the Health Care Cybersecurity and Resilience Act by unanimous consent after the 2024 version died with its term. If the House agrees, healthcare's security rules get updated, with federal grants and training attached.
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AP and The Guardian obtained a letter Kennedy sent before the 2019 trip, and it settles what the visit was for without settling what the visit did, a distinction both his defenders and his critics keep collapsing.
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The United States is in its worst measles year since 1991. The figure on the federal counter is one death, marked subject to change, while Pennsylvania officials describe four deaths among unvaccinated people.
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Sanders and Takano's reintroduced bill would drop the federal overtime threshold to 32 hours over four years and bar any cut to weekly pay, a cost that lands on payrolls whether or not an employer ever deploys AI.
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Tom Cole and Lloyd Smucker have both said the payroll side of Social Security is open for discussion before the 2032 benefit cut, and the cap they would move sits at $184,500 of wages taxed at 12.4% between worker and employer.
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Heidi Overton would arrive at the FDA from the White House Domestic Policy Council, with a political record rather than a regulatory one. Plan submissions for priorities set from outside the building.
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John Larson and Bill Cassidy both lost primaries and exit Congress in four months, with the trust fund set to empty in 2032 and benefits scheduled to fall 22.5 percent.
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