She's a pharmacist who vice-chairs the health subcommittee overseeing the FDA, funded by three compounding-pharmacy lobbies. Her letter asking the FDA to stand down lives on one of those lobbies' websites. Her son is a pharmacist at the family compounding pharmacy — and now sits on the FDA panel that just voted to allow them.
Back home in her district, Miller was asked about the Medicaid cuts she championed, a war, and tariffs her own state's coal lobby says are hurting. She deferred on all three.
Twelve North Carolina rural hospitals closed or dropped inpatient care while Tim Moore's House refused to expand Medicaid. He finally relented in 2023, took a victory lap, and then voted for a federal bill that could end the whole program.
Illinois already lets parents opt their kids out of school mental health screenings. Miller's bill would require a separate signed permission slip for every one — and she calls the screenings 'invasive.'
He chairs the subcommittee that funds schools, health care and worker training. His FY27 bill eliminates adult job training, eliminates youth job training, and cuts Title I for low-income schools by $1.9 billion. He held a press conference about the hospitals.
The PACT Act got 86 votes in the Senate. Idaho veterans have filed more than 11,500 claims under it. Risch voted no at every single stage — including the July 2022 blockade that left veterans camped on the Capitol steps.
Fitzpatrick is one of only two Republicans who voted against the final budget bill. He's much quieter about May 22, 2025, when the same bill passed the House 215-214 and he voted yes. The version he backed cut $863 billion from Medicaid.
Paxton's settlement with Texas Children's Hospital is finalized: $10 million, five doctors permanently stripped of privileges, and the nation's first 'detransition clinic' due to open by October. A Stanford pediatrician calls it a clinic built by legal intimidation.
At a January debate, Iowa's Republican nominee for governor said he'd pull all COVID shots off the market in Iowa and end all childhood vaccine requirements for school enrollment. 'We cannot trust the medical establishment in Iowa anymore.'