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John Peter Spyros Sarbanes is an American politician serving as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Maryland's 3rd congressional district since 2007. A member of the Democratic Party, Sarbanes has focused on issues such as campaign finance reform, healthcare, and education during his tenure in Congress. He has been an advocate for transparency in government and has worked to strengthen the Voting Rights Act.
I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. I very strongly support the SAFE Act. This is something that the Democrats have been focused on from day one. Day one meaning, the day after the 2016 election, when we saw the attacks that had come in…
On June 28, 2018, a gunman shot and killed five employees of the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland. The Annapolis community, which I have the privilege of representing, was shaken to its core and will continue to grieve for…
Most people want to believe, however, that once the President is in office, he or she will endeavor to act in the best interest of the country and not just a specific political party.
If you have a work force where everybody is campaigning on taxpayer money, that is not a good use of the taxpayer money.
the President, I think, must act to protect the integrity of the Federal work force to police that boundary that I've just spoken of.
I see this through two lenses. One is absolutely that the Hatch Act is there to protect Federal employees.
There's also the danger that allowing Federal employees to advocate for political campaigns while on duty would undermine the public's confidence that the government is actually doing its job.
the purpose of the Hatch Act as being a separation of the nonpartisan governance of the country from partisan political campaigning
the impact that is being predicted from implementing this gag rule is it will have a tremendous effect on access to care
it seems to me that your office ought to have given consideration to what the practical impact would be
I want to echo what has been pointed out by my colleagues, many patients seeking care at Title X clinics have no other source of care.
If not replaced, the public health impacts would include an increase in unintended pregnancies, an increase in sexually transmitted infections, an increase in undetected cancers, and a decrease in access to prenatal care.
I am very proud that in Maryland, we have been a leader in expressing our opposition and taking action against the gag rule.
Unfortunately, my view is the Commission doesn't always give those interests the sufficient weight that they deserve.
Even when patients are trying to anticipate a situation and do their homework... they can still get caught short.
Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Thank you all for being here much of the day.
It's incredible, I guess, but not totally surprising that it's affecting as many as 1 in 7 patients in America.
I am sort to attracted to the No Surprises Act right now because I think it achieves that balance in a way that works best for patients.
As a matter of fact, the Maryland Health Care Commission from its study found that in three years after implementation of the benchmark system the total amount of out-of-network payments decreased from 20 percent to 11 percent.
My concern is that the administration's proposed policy changes on State oversight of water quality certification could weaken our efforts to achieve clean water in the Chesapeake Bay.
We all hear stories from family members and friends of this kind of gotcha moment that they face.
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