| Tipoffs for Great Bend, Kansas (Congressional) Newsletter for Friday May 31, 2024 ( 4 items ) |
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Davids Announces 13 Local Students Receive U.S. Service Academy Appointments
WASHINGTON, May 30 -- Rep. Sharice Davids, D-Kansas, issued the following news release:
Today, Representative Sharice Davids announced that 13 students from the Kansas Third District have successfully received their appointments to a U.S. Service Academy. In a send-off event in Overland Park yesterday, Davids presented each student with a certificate acknowledging their incredible achievement, andRyan Rast, a Davids-nominated student and recent graduate of West Point, shared his advice as these
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ICYMI: In Washington Post Op-Ed, Experts Call for Use of "March-In Rights" to Lower Drug Costs As Biden Administration Weighs Final Guidance
WASHINGTON, May 30 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release:
As the Biden administration considers finalizing draft guidance on the use of "march-in rights," two experts - Peter S. Arno, senior fellow and director of health policy research at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Kathryn Ardizzone, former attorney with Knowledge Ecology International - published an op-ed in the Washington Post supporting t
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Senate Armed Services Subcommittee Issues Testimony From Yale Law School Postdoctoral Fellow
WASHINGTON, May 30 -- The Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel released the following written testimony by Melissa Barber, a postdoctoral fellow at Yale Law School, from a hearing dated April 30, 2024, entitled "The Department of Defense's Efforts to Ensure Servicemembers' Access to Safe, High-Quality Pharmaceuticals":
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1. The availability and affordability of drugs is a pressing challenge faced by the Department of Defense (DOD).
1.1 The root causes and proximate determinants
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Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee Leaders Moran, Tester Demand Action on VA Misuse of PACT Act Funds to Improperly Pay Millions to Senior Executives
WASHINGTON, May 31 -- Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, ranking member of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee, issued the following news:
U.S. Senators Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) and Jon Tester (D-Mont.) - the ranking member and chairman of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee - led a bipartisan group of their colleagues in demanding action and accountability from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) after VA's Office of Inspector General (OIG) found that VA improperly awarded $10.8 million dollars
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