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Senate Finance Committee to consider drug costs

Jul 25, 2019
Some members of Congress feel the measure might go too far. Drug companies don't like it, either.
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Health and Human Services head nominee differs from the former secretary in one key way

Jan 8, 2018
Tuesday, the Senate Finance Committee is scheduled to hold its confirmation hearing for Alex Azar to run the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Azar is widely expected to win Senate approval, despite some misgivings over the rise of drug prices while he served as a top executive at drugmaker Eli Lilly. However, it […]

Senate makes sunset revisions to tax plan that may not see the light of day

Nov 15, 2017
Latest version would allow individual cuts to expire after 2025.