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December 20, 2024

Reps. Auchincloss, Moolenaar Lead Letter Calling on Secretary Blinken to Support Internet Freedom in Censored Nations

— U.S. Representative Jake Auchincloss (D-MA-04) and Chairman of the House Select Committee on Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party,  John Moolenaar (R-MI-02), led a bipartisan letter calling on Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the Biden administration to sponsor a federal prize competition to support satellite technology that offers internet accessibility for repressed citizens of authoritarian nations or countries at war. In the letter the lawma…  Continue Reading

December 17, 2024

Auchincloss Targets China’s Role in U.S. Fentanyl Crisis with New Bipartisan Legislation

Today, Representative Jake Auchincloss (D-MA), Democratic Chair of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s Fentanyl Policy Working Group introduced bipartisan legislation alongside his colleagues that holds the CCP responsible for its role in the U.S. fentanyl crisis.   Spearheaded by Working Group Co-Chairs Reps. Auchincloss and Dan Newhouse (R-WA) and joined by Chairman John Moolenaar (R-MI) and Ranking Member R…  Continue Reading

December 11, 2024

Auchincloss, Warren, Harshbarger, Hawley, Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Cut Drug Costs, Rein in Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs)

Today, Representatives Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) and Diana Harshbarger (R-TN), alongside Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Josh Hawley (R-MO), introduced the Patients Before Monopolies (PBM) Act. The bipartisan, bicameral bill will prohibit joint ownership of PBMs and pharmacies, a gross conflict of interest that enables these companies to enrich themselves at the expense of patients and independent pharmacies. Over the past decade, pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) — the middlemen between phar…  Continue Reading

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October 21, 2024

US lawmakers question oil service company's SLB's exception to Russian sanctions

, Oct 21 (Reuters) - Dozens of U.S. Representatives from both political parties urged the Biden administration to toughen sanctions on Russian oil shipments and questioned an exception issued to the world's largest oilfield company SLB (SLB.N), opens new tab to operate in the country.   Since Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. and European countries have sought to cut Moscow's energy revenue for fighting the war through sanctions. That prompted several oilfield service companies to leave Russia but SLB has remained operating in the country, helping keep Russian oil production flowing.…  Continue Reading

October 21, 2024

Bipartisan House members call for tighter sanctions on oil field servicers in Russia

A bipartisan coalition of more than 50 congressional representatives called on the Biden administration to tighten sanctions on Russian oil and specifically address a major U.S. oil field servicer’s presence in Russia. In the letter, led by Reps. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) and Jake Auchincloss (D-Mass.), the members asked Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Secretary of State Antony Blinken to restrict activity by the firm SLB in Russia after the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine.  …  Continue Reading

September 23, 2024

Local pharmacists support Rep. Auchincloss’s “Pharmacists Fight Back” Act

Rep. Jake Auchincloss has been leading a bipartisan effort to pass the Pharmacists Fight Back Act (HR9096) to regulate what the Congressional supporters term “price gouging abuses by the Pharmacy Benefits Managers (PBMs) — the middlemen of drug pricing.” On September 19, the group held a press conference in front of the Capitol Building to highlight the ways in which the PBMs are driving up drug costs and favoring the three largest companies - CVS Health’s Caremark, Cigna’s ESI, and UnitedHealth Group’s OptumRx. …  Continue Reading