I just wanted to take an opportunity to highlight one other issue of importance, and that’s continuing the critical flood protection work for the cities of Temecula and Murrieta, who have experienced devastating floods with loss of life.

These are important projects that should be reviewed in a timely manner. As you know, time is money, but also the longer we wait, the more we risk further damage and devastation.

A resilient water supply is crucial to the future of Georgia’s families, farmers, and businesses, and this new office will help provide communities the tools they need to protect this vital resource and build long-term drought resiliency

“The Supreme Court has lost the trust of the American people, and Justices accepting lavish gifts from wealthy individuals with business before the court has only made matters worse.

“In every other part of the federal government, taking lavish gifts from interested parties is called corruption—but at the Supreme Court, it’s bizarrely been treated as a job perk.

“Trump’s FCC Chair is trying to illegally rewrite the rules to make it easier for billionaires to line their own pockets while jacking up costs and controlling what Americans watch. After rubber-stamping the Nexstar-Tegna megamerger, this…

The consequences of losing access to your local pharmacy can be immeasurable. Think about veterans with complex medical needs, who rely on the personalized care from their local pharmacist – someone who will check for drug interactions…

That is a clear conflict of interest. And yet, DOD actually requires the TRICARE pharmacy contractor to own both a PBM and a pharmacy. I don’t know who talked them into that, but it is an open invitation for Express Scripts to milk the…

If DOD and Express Scripts refuse to share this data, we can draw only one conclusion: the contract that DOD and Express Scripts want us to believe is so different is not so different after all.

I urge DOD to flatly prohibit vertical integration in the next TRICARE pharmacy contract. A vertically integrated PBM has every incentive to line its own pockets, and DOD should not be using taxpayer dollars to fund these schemes.

“I’m delighted that the Senate unanimously passed legislation last night to expand and improve the Older Americans Act,”

“This legislation begins to pay attention to the urgent unmet needs of seniors in America and what we should do as a nation to reduce the senior poverty rate, prevent hunger, combat loneliness and isolation and improve the health and…

“Not only does the Older Americans Act save lives and ease human suffering, it saves money.

“In fact, it costs less to feed a senior for an entire year through the Older Americans Act than it does for a senior to spend one night in a hospital.

“While there is much more that we must do to reduce the senior poverty rate in America and to make sure that every senior in America has access to the services they need this bi-partisan legislation is a very good step forward.”

America has let the Chinese Communist Party and other foreign entities quietly buy their way into our drug supply for too long, and it needs to end. Everything from manufacturing and ingredient suppliers to genomic sequencing technology is…

Americans’ access to lifesaving medication should not rely on supply chains controlled by foreign countries. The Pharmaceutical Investment Oversight and Accountability Act would help shine a light on foreign influence in our drug supply…

With smoke from Canadian wildfires again impacting air quality throughout our state, we’re urging New Yorkers to be air quality aware to stay safe this week.