ambassador. today israel launching a serious of air strikes in gaza, who they were targeting, and the incident civilians that may have been caught up in the cross fire. good day to you. i m peter alexander in washington. for my friend hallie jackson. and joining me now is nbc news capitol hill correspondent allie vitale and anna palmer. with great gratitude we are all inside with some air-conditioning on this stifling d.c. day. allie, let s walk through this kyrsten sinema, the deal the democrats got. talk about feeling the heat. the at democracy were very concerned how this was going to end up. republicans wither trying to peel off sinema s vote. what twos from here? what happens next? yeah, peter, thankfully we are going to be in air-conditioning all the rest of the weekend, too, because the senate is working both saturday and sunday now that they have senator kyrsten sinema on board. the changes she made to the legislation, not entirely surprising for those of us who h
Everyday citizens are looking at our lawmakers, now more than ever, to see who will do the right thing and put the American people first. We are relying on our
During the February 9, 2023 Executive Business Meeting, Senate Judiciary Committee reported Interagency Patent Coordination and Improvement Act of 2023, Prescription Pricing for the People Act of 2023, Preserve Access to Affordable Generics and Biosimilars Act, and more.
corks, they ve got to get to a few of these things, parliamentarian to make sure this is okay for the democrats to do themselves. what else stands in the way? good point. as much as we see democrats celebrating the positive divide language, we haven t seen final language. the parliamentarian is still working through some of the medicare drug pricing legislation, which is really the backbone of this bill. and so that s going to be something that is going to be very closely watched here. of course these political amendments that republicans have already pledged to do. the other question that could delay things is, will a republican senator ask for the reading of the bill? that would take hours and hours. so far, indications on our sourcing is a senator like ron johnson, who may have been one of the key indicators to do that has not indicated he s going to do that. but again, the real question is, what does senator bernie sanders do? democrats believe he has with him on this, but he has
Let’s do what we’ve always talked about for all the years I was down here in this body in Congress, Biden said in his first joint address to Congress. Let’s give Medicare the power to save hundreds of billions of dollars by negotiating lower drug prescription prices. Let’s get it done this year, he added.
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However, Biden notably did not include a drug pricing component in his American Families Plan unveiled earlier Wednesday, a major legislative package with proposals on paid leave and child care. The absence of a drug pricing plan, despite pressure from congressional Democrats to include one, has raised questions about Biden s commitment to moving forward on the legislation.