The legislation would allow the Health and Human Services secretary to align prescription drug prices with the median price in five industrialized countries, as well as allowing the secretary to negotiate for lower prices.
Additionally, the bill would give Americans the option of importing lower-cost medications from Canada and other nations.
The bill received a 56-44 vote, narrowly missing the 60 required votes to pass.
Senate Democrats say they will continue to block the bill until the government shutdown is brought to an end.
The Wet’suwet’en land defenders had set up two checkpoints to physically block pipeline workers from entering the area, which police managed to breach Monday.
At least 14 arrests were reported in addition to reports of indigenous leaders being blocked from entering their territory.
The group of activists has been organizing for the past two weeks around the tent camp under the banner, “Christmas in Tornillo.”
The Tornillo detention center, which is operated by Baptist Child and Family Services, has been a focus of immigrant and human rights activists as well as health professionals, and is expected to close sometime this month.
Despite the fact that the bill was unanimously passed in the Senate earlier this month, Goodlatte’s status as chair of the Judiciary Committe enabled him to block the vote in the House, effectively killing the bill.
The legislation was sponsored by Senator Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, who is also leaving office. Her reelection bid was hampered by legislation restricting the Native American vote, which comprised a large part of Heitkamp’s base.
Once again, the president lied to our soldiers and told them that he had secured a 10% pay increase for them, and that it was their first pay-raise in more than a decade.
The truth? Military pay has increased every year for more than 30 years, and the 2.6% increase set forth in the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act is the largest in the last 9 years.
And the major culprit is gunfire.
As of the report’s release, 144 federal, state, and local law enforcement officers have been killed in the line of duty, an increase from 129 officers who died in 2017.
Americans across the country have been fighting for legislation explicitly criminalizing the act of lynching for the better part of the last century.
On Wednesday, just such a bill — introduced by the Senate’s three black senators — finally passed in the Senate.
The policy will apply to all asylum seekers regardless of whether Mexico is their country of origin or not.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen indicated that part of the reasoning behind the policy has to do with the Flores settlement, which prevents the U.S. government from detaining children for an extended period of time.
It is worth noting that the state of Texas led 19 other states in a lawsuit against the ACA after multiple judges upheld its legality.
It is also worth noting that the judge who ruled on this case was hand-picked by Republican leaders.