PRESS RELEASE (April 2, 2019) — The hearing can be watched here once it begins.

The Chairman wishes to inform Members that the Committee on Finance will meet on Tuesday, April 9, 2019, at 10:15AM, in 215 Dirksen Senate Office Building, to hear testimony on “Drug Pricing in America: A Prescription for Change, Part III.”

QUAD CITIES (April 2, 2019) — 

All 25 entries for the Holocaust Visual Arts Contest are now being displayed at the Moline Public Library (3210 41st St, Moline, Illinois) until April 16, and then the entries will be at Rutabaga Art Studio in Geneseo, Illinois.

Please stop by and see the amazing works of our local students.

2019 Winners of "The Meyer and Frances Shnurman Holocaust Visual Arts Contest" are as follows:

WASHINGTON DC (April 2, 2019) — Bipartisan legislation to improve health-outcomes and care-coordination for children with complex medical conditions in Medicaid, led by US Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles "Chuck" Grassley of Iowa and Sen Michael Bennet of Colorado, unanimously passed in the Senate after passing the House of Representatives last week.

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS (April 2, 2019) — In the wake of an announcement by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that there have been more cases of Measles in the first three months of 2019 than in all of 2018, the American Medical Association (AMA) today issued the following statement urging individuals to check their immunization status and get vaccinated against the measles if not already immune.

DES MOINES, IOWA (April 2, 2019) — Governor Kim Reynolds issued a disaster proclamation today in response to flooding and flash flooding beginning March 13 and continuing.

The governor's proclamation allows state resources to be utilized to respond to and recover from the effects of this severe weather and activates the Iowa Individual Assistance Grant Program for qualifying residents, along with the Disaster Case Management Program, for Wapello County.

WASHINGTON DC (April 2, 2019) — Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles "Chuck" Grassley of Iowa and Ranking Member Ron Wyden of Oregon, today celebrated congressional passage of their bill to prevent drug makers from manipulating Medicaid to gouge taxpayers and increase profits by misclassifying their drugs.

DES MOINES, IOWA (April 2, 2019) — Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller and Iowa Insurance Commissioner Doug Ommen are joining AARP Iowa for a statewide telephone town hall on April 10 at 10AM that will focus on protecting Iowans' savings from scammers and fraudulent investment schemes. Iowans are encouraged to participate in the telephone town hall and ask questions.

WASHINGTON DC (April 2, 2019) — Senators Charles "Chuck" Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, along with Sens Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire, Joni Ernst of Iowa, Marco Rubio of Florida, Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, Jack Reed of Rhode Island, Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, and Mark Warner of Virginia reintroduced the bipartisan Campus Accountability and Safety Act, legislation to combat sexual assault on college and

WASHINGTON DC (April 2, 2019) — Today the US Food and Drug Administration announced the issuance of two warning letters to operators of websites that illegally market potentially dangerous, unapproved, and misbranded opioid medications, including tramadol.

WASHINGTON DC (April 2, 2019) — Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles "Chuck" Grassley of Iowa and Ranking Member Ron Wyden of Oregon today sent letters to Cigna Corporation (Express Scripts), CVS Health Corporation, and Optum, the three leading pharmacy benefit-managers (PBMs), regarding their role in the skyrocketing cost of insulin in the United States.

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