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U.S. House Speaker Johnson says IVF should be protected — just not by Congress
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson said states and not Congress must decide whether to preserve access to in vitro fertilization.
White House budget director says Biden plan would ‘give working families a shot’
The $7.266 trillion budget proposal for fiscal 2025, slated to begin Oct. 1, was released Monday, kicking off the annual budget and appropriations process.
U.S. Veterans Affairs Department expands IVF access to unmarried and same-sex veterans
The VA has only provided IVF care for married veterans who were able to use their own eggs or sperm during the process.
U.S. Senate sends Biden giant spending package hours before midnight deadline
President Joe Biden is expected to sign into law a package of six bills that cleared Congress on Friday, March 8, 2024. The bills are just part of the equation Congress must solve before the next funding deadline of March 22.
Biden warns ‘freedom and democracy are under attack’ in fierce State of the Union address
With a heavy emphasis on an economic agenda Biden vowed to reduce health care costs, impose higher taxes on the wealthy and bring back an expanded child tax credit.
U.S. House passes $468 billion spending package that would stave off shutdown
The package of spending bills now goes to the Senate, where lawmakers are expected to vote on it before the end of the week. President Joe Biden is then expected to sign it into law.
Five months late, Congress is poised to pass a huge chunk of federal spending
The U.S. House and Senate are expected to take broadly bipartisan votes to send a massive spending package known as a “minibus” to President Joe Biden ahead of a Friday midnight deadline.
Who wants the U.S. Supreme Court to limit abortion pill access? Here’s the list.
The high court is scheduled to hear oral arguments on March 26 in a case that stems from a lawsuit that sought to overturn approval of the pharmaceutical.
A day ahead of shutdown, Congress passes stopgap spending bills
The stopgap spending bill would keep funding mostly flat for programs funded in six of the full-year bills through March 8.
Congress brokers deal on government spending deadlines, trying to avoid shutdown
The bipartisan deal will give Congress until March 8 to pass six spending bills lawmakers have finalized and until March 22 to pass another six bills still in negotiations.
A partial government shutdown is days away. There’s no agreement on federal funding yet.
Lawmakers leaving the meeting said it was worthwhile, though it didn’t lead to any agreements that would avoid a partial government shutdown.
U.S. Senate Dems to try to push through legislation protecting in vitro fertilization
Alabama's high court ruled earlier this month that fertilized eggs are children under state law, leading several Alabama IVF clinics to halt their work.