More than 70 percent of adults who misuse prescription opioids get them from friends or relatives Washington, DC —(ENEWSPF)–March 17, 2016. The U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee on Wednesday approved an amendment based on the bipartisan, bicameral Reducing Unused Medication Act that would allow[Read More…]
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Representative Gutiérrez Delivers Fiery Speech Denouncing GOP Anti-Immigration Resolution
“The debate has sunk to a level where people are actually throwing punches and worse…now, Republicans in the House are stoking anti-immigrant fears and mass deportation fantasies some more.” Washington, DC –(ENEWSPF)–March 17,k 2016. Today, Rep. Luis V. Gutiérrez (D-IL) spoke during debate on a partisan vote in support of mass deportation[Read More…]
Combat Veterans Get Telephonic Health Care Application Option
Accelerates Enrollment of Combat Veterans; All Veterans to Get Option on July 5, 2016 WASHINGTON –(ENEWSPF)–March 17, 2016. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced today that it has amended its enrollment regulations to allow Veterans to complete applications for enrollment in VA health care by telephone without the need[Read More…]
Senator Durbin Questions Whether Credit / Debit Card Chip Technology Rollout is Adequately Protecting Competition & Consumers
WASHINGTON, D.C.– (ENEWSPF)–March 17, 2016. U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) today questioned the Chairman of EMVCo – an organization that controls the specifications governing credit and debit card chip technology – seeking information on whether the deployment of this technology in the United States is adequately preserving competition and protecting[Read More…]
Senator Durbin Statement on Nomination of Chief Judge Merrick Garland to Supreme Court
WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–March 17, 2016. U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), a member of the Judiciary Committee, released the following statement on the President’s nomination of Chief Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court: I applaud President Obama’s decision to nominate Chief Judge Merrick Garland. Judge Garland is an outstanding attorney and jurist[Read More…]
A Better Surveillance System for Tracking Police Homicides
Boston, MA –(ENEWSPF)–March 17, 2016. Official counts of homicides by police seriously undercount incidents, according to a study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, but a relatively new national data system, currently in use in 32 states, could be a crucial tool for gathering more comprehensive information, say[Read More…]
Broad Support for Limiting Opioid Painkiller Prescriptions
BOSTON–(ENEWSPF)–March 17, 2016. A new STAT-Harvard poll finds bipartisan support for new federal guidelines advising physicians to give patients with acute pain no more than a three-day supply of opioid painkillers. Seven in 10 Americans support the guidelines, which also advise doctors to try other treatment options before issuing prescriptions.[Read More…]
Congresswoman Duckworth Grills Michigan Gov. Snyder, EPA Head over Flint Water Crisis Failures (Video)
Earlier today, Duckworth proposed a comprehensive legislative approachto help prevent similar lead poisoning and other public health crises across the nation Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 17, 2016. After introducing a comprehensive legislative proposal to protect our nation’s children from lead in their water, Congresswoman Tammy Duckworth (IL-08) berated Michigan Governor Rick Snyder[Read More…]
CAIR Asks Ted Cruz to Drop Hate Group Leader Gaffney, Discredited General, Other Islamophobes as National Security Advisers
Retired Lieutenant General William G. “Jerry” Boykin says ‘[Islam] should not be protected under the First Amendment,’ there should be ‘no mosques in America’ WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 17, 2016 – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on GOP presidential candidate[Read More…]
Interior Department Cancels Oil and Gas Lease in the Lewis and Clark National Forest
Decision Addresses Longstanding Concerns about Development in Badger-Two Medicine in Montana Photo Source: USDA WASHINGTON –(ENEWSPF)–March 17, 2016. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today announced the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has cancelled an oil and gas lease in the Badger-Two Medicine area of the Lewis and Clark[Read More…]
