It disrupts the situation where millions of seniors were falling into the donut hole and not being able to cover that with the out-of-pocket expenses that it represented; so, we are beginning to close that donut hole.
Sarbanes mentions the ACA's role in addressing the Medicare donut hole.
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It is important to be clear that EPA's proposed standards are reasonable, performance-based emissions standards and constitute neither a national electric vehicle mandate nor an internal combustion ban.
Congress gave EPA this role more than 50 years ago under the Clean Air Act and reaffirmed that responsibility in 2005 under the Energy Policy Act.
They want to be on the field of their democracy. They want to feel like they have some power within their own democracy.
Each of which--each of which--would hamper EPA's ability to regulate air pollution and, unfortunately, continues this Republican agenda of putting Big Oil interests over the interests of the public.
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