Speaker of the Home Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., conducts a information convention within the Capitol Customer Middle to introduce the School Affordabil
Speaker of the Home Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., conducts a information convention within the Capitol Customer Middle to introduce the School Affordability Act, an overhaul of upper training system, on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019.
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The Home Methods and Means Committee late Tuesday authorized Speaker Nancy Pelosi‘s drug pricing invoice, sending the legislation to the complete Home flooring for a vote anticipated earlier than the top of this month.
The laws, which handed three committees alongside partisan traces, has a excessive probability of approval within the Home, the place Democrats management the chamber with 234 seats versus 197 held by Republicans. The Schooling and Labor Committee and the Vitality and Commerce Committee made few changes to the bill last week, regardless of Republican members expressing considerations that the laws was rushed and lifeless on arrival within the Senate.
Rep. Kevin Brady, the highest Republican on the Methods and Means Committee, criticized Pelosi’s plan, saying it was extremely partisan, secretly written and has no probability of turning into regulation.
Pelosi’s invoice will guarantee a “loss [of] live-saving cures, misplaced jobs and a nation that may not lead the world in medical innovation,” the congressman from Texas mentioned earlier than the committee’s greater than 12-hour lengthy markup Tuesday. “It is a harmful invoice with long-term penalties and it would not…