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March 31, 2022 Foster Votes to Lower Cost of Insulin for Illinois Families Rep. Bill Foster
March 31, 2022 Underwood-Backed Legislation to Cap the Monthly Cost of Insulin at $35 Passes House Rep. Lauren Underwood
March 18, 2022 Tweet - "Sheriff @TomDart is right. The Senate can and must right the wrongs of the war on drugs by passing the EQUAL Act and finally ending the crack & powder cocaine sentencing disparity." Sen. Dick Durbin
March 16, 2022 Schakowsky, Warren, Klobuchar, Porter, Colleagues Call Out Drug Manufacturers For Providing Misleading Information on High Drug Prices Rep. Jan Schakowsky, ...
March 10, 2022 Letter to Robert Califf, Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration - Romney, Durbin Lead Colleagues in Urging FDA to Regulate E-Cigarettes after Six Month Delay Sen. Ladda Duckworth, ...
March 9, 2022 Congressman Krishnamoorthi To Big Vape: Your Days Of Exploiting The Synthetic Nicotine Loophole Are Over Rep. Subramanian Krishnamoorthi
March 1, 2022 Letter to Stephen J. Ubl, President and CEO of PhRMA - Senator Baldwin, Colleagues Call Out Drug Manufacturers For Squeezing American Families With Rapid and Widespread Price Hikes on Prescription Drugs Rep. Jan Schakowsky, ...
March 1, 2022 Tweet - "The American people have endured incredible hardships over the past two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. When President Biden took office, he pledged to get shots in arms, people back to work and school, and our economy back on track." Sen. Dick Durbin
Feb. 17, 2022 Letter to Hon. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, and Dr. Lawrence A. Tabak, Acting Director of the National Institutes of Health - Foster Leads Bipartisan Call to Accelerate Research of COVID-19 Combination Therapies Rep. Sean Casten, ...
Feb. 15, 2022 Tweet - "Whether it's deceptive claims from opioid manufacturers or predatory tactics by vaping companies, we need an FDA that puts public health first. It is long overdue." Sen. Dick Durbin
Feb. 14, 2022 Letter to Hon. Joseph Biden, President of the United States of America - CONGRESSMAN VALADAO URGES BIDEN TO TAKE ACTION TO COMBAT FENTANYL EPIDEMIC Rep. Mike Bost, ...
Feb. 11, 2022 Letter to Joseph R. Biden, President of the United States - Joyce Urges the President to Address Threat of Fentanyl-Related Substances Flooding into American Communities Rep. Mike Bost, ...
Feb. 2, 2022 Tweet - "For far too long, Big Tobacco and companies like JUUL has been allowed to target "American children with their dangerous and addictive vaping products. I'm live on the Senate floor, calling on @US_FDA to finally take action on e-cigarettes." Sen. Dick Durbin
Dec. 19, 2021 SCHNEIDER STATEMENT ON THE STATUS OF BUILD BACK BETTER NEGOTIATIONS Rep. Brad Schneider
Dec. 19, 2021 Tweet - "In the spirit of the season, I hope the Senator from West Virginia will at least give kids in the lowest income families a helping hand and millions of Americans suffering from diabetes affordable insulin." Sen. Dick Durbin
Dec. 17, 2021 Tweet - "For years, Purdue Pharma flooded America with painkillers and lies, profiting off the addiction epidemic they created. The Sacklers created enormous suffering and must not be allowed to escape responsibility." Sen. Dick Durbin
Dec. 16, 2021 Tweet - "Good. The Sacklers created enormous suffering and must not be allowed to escape responsibility." Sen. Dick Durbin
Dec. 15, 2021 Congressman Krishnamoorthi Introduces Bipartisan Legislation To Prevent Big Tobacco And Vaping Companies From Preying On Children With Synthetic Nicotine Loophole Rep. Subramanian Krishnamoorthi
Dec. 14, 2021 Tweet - "100 years ago, the insulin patent sold for just $1. "It belongs to the world" said the scientists who created it. Today, because of Big Pharma's greed, insulin is $300/vial. Enough is enough. Let's pass #BuildBackBetter & cap the out-of-pocket cost of insulin at $35/month." Sen. Dick Durbin
Dec. 9, 2021 Tweet - "Met with Robert Califf today, President Biden's nominee to lead @US_FDA . I told Dr. Califf that, if he is confirmed, he must use his authority as FDA commissioner to protect our children from a lifetime of nicotine addiction by finally regulating e-cigarettes." Sen. Dick Durbin
Dec. 9, 2021 Letter to Hon. Janet Woodcock, M.D., Acting Commissioner of the FDA - Durbin To Acting FDA Commissioner: Agency Is Three Months Past Court-Ordered Deadline To Regulate E-Cigarettes Sen. Dick Durbin
Dec. 9, 2021 Durbin Meets With President Biden's Nominee To Lead FDA, Robert Califf Sen. Dick Durbin
Dec. 9, 2021 Tweet - "Today marks THREE MONTHS past the court-ordered deadline for @US_FDA to finish reviewing e-cigarettes--yet some of the most kid-friendly vapes remain on the market without authorization. When will the agency finally wake up to its public health duty and do the right thing?" Sen. Dick Durbin
Dec. 7, 2021 Letter to Hon. Chuck Schumer, Majority Leader US Senate - Keep Affordable Insulin Measures in Build Back Better Act Rep. Chuy Garcia, ...
Nov. 26, 2021 Congressman Krishnamoorthi Urges Senate To Pass Build Back Better Act With Provisions He Championed To Address Green Card Backlog Rep. Subramanian Krishnamoorthi
Nov. 19, 2021 Congressman Krishnamoorthi Votes In Favor Of Transformational Build Back Better Act Rep. Subramanian Krishnamoorthi
Nov. 19, 2021 QUIGLEY STATEMENT ON HOUSE PASSAGE OF BUILD BACK BETTER ACT Rep. Mike Quigley
Nov. 19, 2021 Foster Statement on Passage of Build Back Better Act Rep. Bill Foster
Nov. 19, 2021 Representative Danny K. Davis Praises Passage of H.R. 5376, the Build Back Better Act Rep. Danny Davis
Nov. 19, 2021 Schakowsky Statement on the Passage of the Build Back Better Act Rep. Jan Schakowsky
Nov. 19, 2021 Rep. Kelly Praises House Passage of Transformational Build Back Better Legislation Rep. Robin Kelly
Nov. 19, 2021 SCHNEIDER STATEMENT ON HOUSE PASSAGE OF BUILD BACK BETTER ACT Rep. Brad Schneider
Nov. 18, 2021 Congressman Danny K. Davis In Support of the Build Back Better Act - November 18, 2021 Rep. Danny Davis
Nov. 17, 2021 Durbin Questions District Court Nominees In Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing Sen. Dick Durbin
Nov. 16, 2021 Tweet - "Yesterday my REFUND Act with @senrobportman was signed into law with the bipartisan infrastructure deal. It will save patients & Medicare billions by forcing Pharma to pay a rebate for discarded meds, rather than profiting off waste. A loss for Big Pharma & win for everyone else." Sen. Dick Durbin
Oct. 31, 2021 Letter to Hon. Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, and Hon. Steny Hoyer, House Majority Leader - Frontline Democrats Press House Leadership to Include Prescription Drugs Provisions in Build Back Better Act Rep. Lauren Underwood, ...
Oct. 27, 2021 Durbin: The Senate Must Follow The House's Lead & Eliminate The Federal Crack And Powder Cocaine Sentencing Disparity Sen. Dick Durbin
Oct. 26, 2021 Durbin Discusses Opioid Quotas With DEA Administrator Milgram Sen. Dick Durbin
Oct. 21, 2021 Tweet - "E-cigarettes are a life-or-death challenge to FDA's legacy on tobacco. For the health of our kids, @US_FDA cannot fail." Sen. Dick Durbin
Oct. 1, 2021 Durbin, Grassley, Booker, Lee Introduce Legislation To Clarify Retroactivity Of Crack Cocaine Sentencing Reform Sen. Dick Durbin, ...
Sept. 28, 2021 Tweet - "This commonsense legislation will help reform our criminal justice system so that it better lives up to the ideals of true justice & equality under the law. I join my colleagues in applauding the House for its vote today and urge my colleagues in the Senate to support this bill." Sen. Dick Durbin
Sept. 28, 2021 Senate Sponsors Laud House Passage Of EQUAL Act Sen. Dick Durbin
Sept. 27, 2021 Foster Announces Federal Funding for Programs to Combat Youth Substance Use in Naperville and Aurora Rep. Bill Foster
Sept. 7, 2021 Durbin Meets With Biden's Nominee To Lead The Office Of National Drug Control Policy Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 31, 2021 Tweet - "On this #OverdoseAwarenessDay, my thoughts are with all who lost their lives or a loved one to the opioid epidemic. Too many families have suffered from the crisis. We must hold Big Pharma accountable for fueling it & we must invest in programs to help communities heal." Sen. Dick Durbin
July 27, 2021 Bost Statement Following House Passage of 2 Bipartisan VA Bills Rep. Mike Bost
July 26, 2021 Chairman Quigley Statement to Rules Committee on Seven-Bill Appropriations Minibus Rep. Mike Quigley
July 23, 2021 Tweet - "The crack-powder cocaine sentencing disparity disproportionately impacts people of color, with 81 percent of those convicted of federal crack offenses from 2015 to 2019 being Black. We need to end this injustice once and for all by eliminating the crack-powder disparity." Sen. Dick Durbin
July 23, 2021 Tweet - "As states & localities work toward a settlement to hold some of the drug companies accountable for fueling the opioid epidemic, we must heed lessons from the tobacco settlement and safeguard critical funds for treatment, prevention, and public health purposes." Sen. Dick Durbin
July 21, 2021 Booker, Durbin Applaud Passage of the EQUAL Act out of House Judiciary Committee Sen. Dick Durbin, ...
Date Title Politician
March 31, 2022 Foster Votes to Lower Cost of Insulin for Illinois Families Rep.Bill Foster
March 31, 2022 Underwood-Backed Legislation to Cap the Monthly Cost of Insulin at $35 Passes House Rep.Lauren Underwood
March 18, 2022 Tweet - "Sheriff @TomDart is right. The Senate can and must right the wrongs of the war on drugs by passing the EQUAL Act and finally ending the crack & powder cocaine sentencing disparity." Sen.Dick Durbin
March 16, 2022 Schakowsky, Warren, Klobuchar, Porter, Colleagues Call Out Drug Manufacturers For Providing Misleading Information on High Drug Prices Rep.Jan Schakowsky, ...
March 10, 2022 Letter to Robert Califf, Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration - Romney, Durbin Lead Colleagues in Urging FDA to Regulate E-Cigarettes after Six Month Delay Sen.Ladda Duckworth, ...
March 9, 2022 Congressman Krishnamoorthi To Big Vape: Your Days Of Exploiting The Synthetic Nicotine Loophole Are Over Rep.Subramanian Krishnamoorthi
March 1, 2022 Letter to Stephen J. Ubl, President and CEO of PhRMA - Senator Baldwin, Colleagues Call Out Drug Manufacturers For Squeezing American Families With Rapid and Widespread Price Hikes on Prescription Drugs Rep.Jan Schakowsky, ...
March 1, 2022 Tweet - "The American people have endured incredible hardships over the past two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. When President Biden took office, he pledged to get shots in arms, people back to work and school, and our economy back on track." Sen.Dick Durbin
Feb. 17, 2022 Letter to Hon. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, and Dr. Lawrence A. Tabak, Acting Director of the National Institutes of Health - Foster Leads Bipartisan Call to Accelerate Research of COVID-19 Combination Therapies Rep.Sean Casten, ...
Feb. 15, 2022 Tweet - "Whether it's deceptive claims from opioid manufacturers or predatory tactics by vaping companies, we need an FDA that puts public health first. It is long overdue." Sen.Dick Durbin
Feb. 14, 2022 Letter to Hon. Joseph Biden, President of the United States of America - CONGRESSMAN VALADAO URGES BIDEN TO TAKE ACTION TO COMBAT FENTANYL EPIDEMIC Rep.Mike Bost, ...
Feb. 11, 2022 Letter to Joseph R. Biden, President of the United States - Joyce Urges the President to Address Threat of Fentanyl-Related Substances Flooding into American Communities Rep.Mike Bost, ...
Feb. 2, 2022 Tweet - "For far too long, Big Tobacco and companies like JUUL has been allowed to target "American children with their dangerous and addictive vaping products. I'm live on the Senate floor, calling on @US_FDA to finally take action on e-cigarettes." Sen.Dick Durbin
Dec. 19, 2021 SCHNEIDER STATEMENT ON THE STATUS OF BUILD BACK BETTER NEGOTIATIONS Rep.Brad Schneider
Dec. 19, 2021 Tweet - "In the spirit of the season, I hope the Senator from West Virginia will at least give kids in the lowest income families a helping hand and millions of Americans suffering from diabetes affordable insulin." Sen.Dick Durbin
Dec. 17, 2021 Tweet - "For years, Purdue Pharma flooded America with painkillers and lies, profiting off the addiction epidemic they created. The Sacklers created enormous suffering and must not be allowed to escape responsibility." Sen.Dick Durbin
Dec. 16, 2021 Tweet - "Good. The Sacklers created enormous suffering and must not be allowed to escape responsibility." Sen.Dick Durbin
Dec. 15, 2021 Congressman Krishnamoorthi Introduces Bipartisan Legislation To Prevent Big Tobacco And Vaping Companies From Preying On Children With Synthetic Nicotine Loophole Rep.Subramanian Krishnamoorthi
Dec. 14, 2021 Tweet - "100 years ago, the insulin patent sold for just $1. "It belongs to the world" said the scientists who created it. Today, because of Big Pharma's greed, insulin is $300/vial. Enough is enough. Let's pass #BuildBackBetter & cap the out-of-pocket cost of insulin at $35/month." Sen.Dick Durbin
Dec. 9, 2021 Tweet - "Met with Robert Califf today, President Biden's nominee to lead @US_FDA . I told Dr. Califf that, if he is confirmed, he must use his authority as FDA commissioner to protect our children from a lifetime of nicotine addiction by finally regulating e-cigarettes." Sen.Dick Durbin
Dec. 9, 2021 Letter to Hon. Janet Woodcock, M.D., Acting Commissioner of the FDA - Durbin To Acting FDA Commissioner: Agency Is Three Months Past Court-Ordered Deadline To Regulate E-Cigarettes Sen.Dick Durbin
Dec. 9, 2021 Durbin Meets With President Biden's Nominee To Lead FDA, Robert Califf Sen.Dick Durbin
Dec. 9, 2021 Tweet - "Today marks THREE MONTHS past the court-ordered deadline for @US_FDA to finish reviewing e-cigarettes--yet some of the most kid-friendly vapes remain on the market without authorization. When will the agency finally wake up to its public health duty and do the right thing?" Sen.Dick Durbin
Dec. 7, 2021 Letter to Hon. Chuck Schumer, Majority Leader US Senate - Keep Affordable Insulin Measures in Build Back Better Act Rep.Chuy Garcia, ...
Nov. 26, 2021 Congressman Krishnamoorthi Urges Senate To Pass Build Back Better Act With Provisions He Championed To Address Green Card Backlog Rep.Subramanian Krishnamoorthi
Nov. 19, 2021 Congressman Krishnamoorthi Votes In Favor Of Transformational Build Back Better Act Rep.Subramanian Krishnamoorthi
Nov. 19, 2021 QUIGLEY STATEMENT ON HOUSE PASSAGE OF BUILD BACK BETTER ACT Rep.Mike Quigley
Nov. 19, 2021 Foster Statement on Passage of Build Back Better Act Rep.Bill Foster
Nov. 19, 2021 Representative Danny K. Davis Praises Passage of H.R. 5376, the Build Back Better Act Rep.Danny Davis
Nov. 19, 2021 Schakowsky Statement on the Passage of the Build Back Better Act Rep.Jan Schakowsky
Nov. 19, 2021 Rep. Kelly Praises House Passage of Transformational Build Back Better Legislation Rep.Robin Kelly
Nov. 19, 2021 SCHNEIDER STATEMENT ON HOUSE PASSAGE OF BUILD BACK BETTER ACT Rep.Brad Schneider
Nov. 18, 2021 Congressman Danny K. Davis In Support of the Build Back Better Act - November 18, 2021 Rep.Danny Davis
Nov. 17, 2021 Durbin Questions District Court Nominees In Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing Sen.Dick Durbin
Nov. 16, 2021 Tweet - "Yesterday my REFUND Act with @senrobportman was signed into law with the bipartisan infrastructure deal. It will save patients & Medicare billions by forcing Pharma to pay a rebate for discarded meds, rather than profiting off waste. A loss for Big Pharma & win for everyone else." Sen.Dick Durbin
Oct. 31, 2021 Letter to Hon. Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, and Hon. Steny Hoyer, House Majority Leader - Frontline Democrats Press House Leadership to Include Prescription Drugs Provisions in Build Back Better Act Rep.Lauren Underwood, ...
Oct. 27, 2021 Durbin: The Senate Must Follow The House's Lead & Eliminate The Federal Crack And Powder Cocaine Sentencing Disparity Sen.Dick Durbin
Oct. 26, 2021 Durbin Discusses Opioid Quotas With DEA Administrator Milgram Sen.Dick Durbin
Oct. 21, 2021 Tweet - "E-cigarettes are a life-or-death challenge to FDA's legacy on tobacco. For the health of our kids, @US_FDA cannot fail." Sen.Dick Durbin
Oct. 1, 2021 Durbin, Grassley, Booker, Lee Introduce Legislation To Clarify Retroactivity Of Crack Cocaine Sentencing Reform Sen.Dick Durbin, ...
Sept. 28, 2021 Tweet - "This commonsense legislation will help reform our criminal justice system so that it better lives up to the ideals of true justice & equality under the law. I join my colleagues in applauding the House for its vote today and urge my colleagues in the Senate to support this bill." Sen.Dick Durbin
Sept. 28, 2021 Senate Sponsors Laud House Passage Of EQUAL Act Sen.Dick Durbin
Sept. 27, 2021 Foster Announces Federal Funding for Programs to Combat Youth Substance Use in Naperville and Aurora Rep.Bill Foster
Sept. 7, 2021 Durbin Meets With Biden's Nominee To Lead The Office Of National Drug Control Policy Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 31, 2021 Tweet - "On this #OverdoseAwarenessDay, my thoughts are with all who lost their lives or a loved one to the opioid epidemic. Too many families have suffered from the crisis. We must hold Big Pharma accountable for fueling it & we must invest in programs to help communities heal." Sen.Dick Durbin
July 27, 2021 Bost Statement Following House Passage of 2 Bipartisan VA Bills Rep.Mike Bost
July 26, 2021 Chairman Quigley Statement to Rules Committee on Seven-Bill Appropriations Minibus Rep.Mike Quigley
July 23, 2021 Tweet - "The crack-powder cocaine sentencing disparity disproportionately impacts people of color, with 81 percent of those convicted of federal crack offenses from 2015 to 2019 being Black. We need to end this injustice once and for all by eliminating the crack-powder disparity." Sen.Dick Durbin
July 23, 2021 Tweet - "As states & localities work toward a settlement to hold some of the drug companies accountable for fueling the opioid epidemic, we must heed lessons from the tobacco settlement and safeguard critical funds for treatment, prevention, and public health purposes." Sen.Dick Durbin
July 21, 2021 Booker, Durbin Applaud Passage of the EQUAL Act out of House Judiciary Committee Sen.Dick Durbin, ...
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