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"Today's vote was a victory for George Soros, Arabella Advisors and the progressive cartel that paid over $40 million to buy a piece of the Ohio Constitution for their allies at Planned Parenthood," stated David Zanotti, President & CEO of the...

With the U.S. Senate Finance Committee's release of additional PBM reform legislation and the Committee's markup scheduled for Wednesday, November 8, NACDS President & CEO Steven C. Anderson released the following statement: "NACDS' message is...

The American Kennel Club® (AKC) presented New Hampshire Senator Howard Pearl on November 4, 2023, with the 2023 AKC Legislator of the Year award in recognition of his advocacy for fair and balanced legislation for responsible dog owners. The award...

Odyssey, a platform that helps states connect families to public funding and education services ? today released new nationwide polling, which found that an overwhelming majority of parents (73%) want publicly funded flexible state-based education...

WORKING TOGETHER: THE CANADIAN CAREGIVING SUMMIT, organized by the Canadian Centre for Caregiving Excellence (CCCE), starts today to chart a path forward with actionable policies to support the millions of Canadian caregivers and care providers. The...

The American Association of International Healthcare Recruitment on Thursday applauded the reintroduction of the Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act, bipartisan legislation to address the crisis of America's nursing shortage by facilitating the...

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) released the following statement today on the proposed fiduciary rule announced October 31 by the Biden-Harris Administration and the Department of Labor (DOL):...

Former Broward Mayor Dr. Barbara Sharief currently holds the majority support to replace term-limited Senator Book, Dr. Sharief's campaign reveals compelling internal polling results of 236 very likely democratic primary voters that was conducted...

The following statement is from Peter Finn, Teamsters Western Region International Vice President and Secretary-Treasurer of Teamsters Local 856:...

Senate Bill 1258, which would require that certain patient populations admitted to Mass. Department of Mental Health (DMH) continuing care facilities first be placed in a designated forensic unit, will be heard by the Joint Committee on Mental...

We're pleased to welcome Courtney Miller as a Senior Associate at TFG. Courtney enhances TFG's legislative and advocacy services with experience from the private and public sectors, and at the local, state, and federal levels....

Triton Global Services, a leading provider of comprehensive security solutions, is excited to announce an initiative to assist all licensed California Firearm Dealers meet new digital surveillance system requirements that become law in California on...

Democracies have been losing out to autocracies around the world. On Monday 23 October, Advanced Product Development LLC of Las Vegas, Nevada introduced a new website FixAllDemocracies.com and a system called MOP-UP. M-O-P stands for "MONEY OUTTA...

"The release of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) nationwide encounters for September, FY 2023, shattered a record set just last year for the number of aliens encountered illegally entering our country. At the same time, September set...

Kajeet®, a leading wireless connectivity and device management provider for education, government, and commercial markets, today applauded FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel's proposed ruling to allow E-Rate funding to be used to provide WiFi on...

The federal government should prevent UnitedHealth Group's Optum division from acquiring Amedisys home health, according to a letter from American Pharmacy Cooperative, Inc. (APCI) to the U.S. Department of Justice....

Yesterday, Opportunity Finance Network (OFN), the leading national network of community development financial institutions (CDFIs), presented Sens. Mike Crapo (R-ID) and Mark Warner (D-VA) and Reps. Jason Smith (R-MO-8) and Maxine Waters (D-CA-43)...

A new national survey assessing Americans' views on violent hate crimes finds that two-thirds majority of respondents across a wide swath of demographic variables agree that the number of violent hate crimes in the United States has increased over...

Judges Mimi Tsankov, a federal immigration judge in New York City, and Samuel B. Cole, a federal immigration judge in Chicago, will speak Wednesday, Oct. 18 at 10 a.m. at a National Press Club Headliners news conference about the pressures of the...

Voters in five states will decide on 28 statewide ballot measures in the general election on November 7?the highest number of state ballot measures in an odd-numbered year since 2007....

As Canada's health ministers gather in Charlottetown, P.E.I., national health care organizations are calling for clear action plans to unlock federal funding and urgently improve access to care for Canadians. We need transformational changes, and the...

In recent years, the Canadian public has become increasingly aware of the problem of Indigenous identity theft. At the individual level, this occurs when individuals falsely claim Indigenous identity to advance their careers and benefits. Indigenous...

In an effort organized by Adam Mossoff of the Hudson Institute's Forum for Intellectual Property, 25 of the nation's leading scholars, former judges, and former senior government officials sent a letter to U.S. senators correcting false claims that...

As Congress works to avoid government shutdowns, and appropriate funding to the Rural Development budget which includes SNAP, WIC, EBT and Agricultural related agencies that serve an integral role in the U.S. food chain, the USDA is discussing a...

The Teamsters Union commends the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs for passing S. 2860, the Secure and Fair Enforcement Regulation (SAFER) Banking Act, earlier today....

Honor the Gift, a coalition representing organ transplant patients across the nation, along with other allied leaders across the transplant field, respond to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) press release stating that "neither CMS...

Solving Hunger, a project of Tusk Philanthropies, today announced the results of its 2023 campaigns, concluding with the passage of North Carolina's budget. Solving Hunger won five of six campaigns in North Carolina, Vermont, New York, and two in...

States that had more invasive COVID-19 restrictions saw small reductions in COVID-19 infection and mortality rates, but saw large negative impacts on employment, economic growth, and children's education outcomes, finds a new brief released today by...

The Public Policy Forum today released a new report on bolstering Canada's health security that makes the case that Canada needs to take advantage of the interregnum between health security emergencies to urgently improve our preparedness....

Millions of Americans with low incomes will now receive their food benefits without delay during the first month of a potential federal government shutdown, thanks to the government's response to a nationwide class action brought by Western Center on...

Make It Movement, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to connect young...

The newly formed Forward Party, co-founded by onetime Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang and Republican governor of New Jersey Christine Todd Whitman, today endorsed Joe Rockey for Allegheny County Executive, broadening the Rockey...

The American Chemistry Council (ACC) is urgently calling on the Biden Administration and Congress to reverse the growing trend of regulatory overreach. Today it launched "Chemistry Creates, America Competes" to help the Biden Administration...

Today, the Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) launches the 9th annual, multi-day ED Games Expo, the largest, federally funded public showcase of education technology (EdTech) at the Kennedy Center REACH in Washington,...

Today, the GW Graduate School of Political Management (GSPM) Society of Presidential Pollsters Founder Mark Penn, in conversation with Christopher Arterton, professor emeritus and founding dean of the GW Graduate School of Political Management, will...

Today, Dan Fishbein, M.D., President of Sun Life U.S., released the following statement regarding bipartisan primary care and health workforce legislation:...

A bill amended 72 hours before the end of the legislative session and passed in the dead of night without debate would undermine California's new gasoline price gouging law. ...

Nearly 9 in 10 (88%) people facing hunger agree that federal and local governments should treat food insecurity as an urgent crisis despite headlines asserting an improving economy and lower unemployment rates, according to a new Feeding America...

A strong middle class means a strong Canada. At a time when global inflation has driven up the cost of necessities like groceries, and housing costs are too high for too many, people are worried about their families. The Government of Canada has been...

Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a damning report that said New Jersey's state-run nursing homes for veterans violated residents' constitutional rights by failing to provide adequate safety in response to the Covid-19 pandemic....

Emergency nurses need additional knowledge of abortion-limiting legislation as well as the related clinical, ethical and legal implications for both emergency care staff and their patients, a study published in the September issue of the Journal of...

Today, Steve Pollock, president of DentaQuest, part of Sun Life U.S., released the following statement reacting to the introduction of the Increasing Access to Dental Insurance Act:...

Today, five of the world's leading innovators ? including Katalin Karikó, the University of Pennsylvania biochemist who helped develop the mRNA technology behind the Covid-19 vaccines, and Dennis Liotta, the Emory chemist who helped transform HIV...

Today, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters released a guiding document for federal policymakers to address issues with autonomous vehicles (AVs). The framework, Autonomous Vehicle Federal Policy Principles, arrives at a critical time when...

Today, the Young Black Lawyers' Organizing Coalition (YBLOC), a national network of young Black lawyers and law students, has requested to meet with Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Richard J. Durbin to urge him to abolish the "blue slip" practice...

Aquia Inc., a...

Government officials and physicians don't always agree on the value of prescription drugs, a new paper from the Alliance for Patient Access explains, and the discrepancy could impact patient care when U.S. officials begin price negotiations for...

The Charles F. Kettering Foundation today announced it is awarding its first David Mathews Democracy Fellowship Award to former Kansas Governor and Obama administration Cabinet member Kathleen Sebelius. Sebelius, who served as secretary of the U.S....

On August 22, 2023, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Forest Service is making $150 million available from President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the largest climate investment in...

As students head back to school, a new national survey commissioned by the California-based, nonpartisan, free-market think tank, the Pacific Research Institute finds that voters are more dissatisfied with their local school boards than their...