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Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Lankford is pictured in the Capitol during votes on July 31. Lankford on Tuesday blocked a resolution expressing a sense of the Senate that every patient should have the right to emergency health care, including abortion, regardless of where they live, saying that “there is no state in America where a woman faces prosecution for having an abortion.”

Policy

Filibuster’s future, emergency abortions fuel Senate debate

On campaign trail, Harris vows to end filibuster in order to codify Roe

By Ariel Cohen and Sandhya Raman
Posted September 24, 2024 at 6:26pm

During Tuesday’s hearing, Senate HELP Chairman Bernie Sanders said he had received confirmation from “all of the major PBMs” that they wouldn’t reduce coverage if Novo Nordisk lowered their prices.

Policy

Novo Nordisk CEO blames PBMs, insurers for Ozempic price tag

By Lia DeGroot
Posted September 24, 2024 at 2:20pm
Chairman Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing in 2023.

Policy

Analysts say market forces will lower cost of obesity drugs

By Lia DeGroot
Posted September 23, 2024 at 7:00am
Vice President Kamala Harris, Democratic presidential nominee, celebrates on the final night of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago, Ill., on Aug. 22.

Politics

Harris ties Georgia deaths to Trump policies

By Sandhya Raman
Posted September 20, 2024 at 5:37pm
Democratic presidential nominee and Vice President Kamala Harris delivers remarks at a Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute conference Wednesday in Washington.

Harris warns of ‘massive detention camps’ under Trump

By John T. Bennett
Posted September 18, 2024 at 2:47pm
New Hampshire Democrat Jeanne Shaheen led 41 senators in a letter urging Senate leadership to permanently expand health care subsidies on the health care exchanges.

House, Senate Democrats renew health care subsidies push

By Ariel Cohen
Posted September 18, 2024 at 7:15am
Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, participates in an interview hosted by the National Association of Black Journalists, in Philadelphia on Tuesday. (Jim WatsonAFP via Getty Images)

On Black vote, Harris won’t assume ‘I’m going to have it because I’m Black’

By John T. Bennett
Posted September 17, 2024 at 4:22pm
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., right, Chairman Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., center, and ranking member Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., during a hearing of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. The committee will vote next week on whether to hold the CEO of Steward Health Care in contempt for refusing a subpoena.

Senate HELP to hold contempt vote for CEO who refused subpoena

By Jessie Hellmann
Posted September 12, 2024 at 3:28pm
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer conducts a news conference after the Senate luncheons in the Capitol on Tuesday. He announced Thursday that the Senate will vote again on a legislative package that would establish a statutory right to IVF.

Schumer tees up second vote on IVF

By Sandhya Raman
Posted September 12, 2024 at 3:21pm
Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris debate for the first time at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia on Sept. 10.

Presidential contenders stay mum, for now, on menthol ban

By Lia DeGroot
Posted September 12, 2024 at 12:56pm