Robert Harshbarger Jr. swapped a cheap unapproved Chinese ingredient into medicine for kidney dialysis patients and got 48 months. Four days after Trump endorsed his wife's re-election, he got a full and unconditional pardon — and, newly eligible to hold office, he filed to run for county commission.
She's a pharmacist who vice-chairs the health subcommittee overseeing the FDA, funded by three compounding-pharmacy lobbies. Her letter asking the FDA to stand down lives on one of those lobbies' websites. Her son is a pharmacist at the family compounding pharmacy — and now sits on the FDA panel that just voted to allow them.
Back home in her district, Miller was asked about the Medicaid cuts she championed, a war, and tariffs her own state's coal lobby says are hurting. She deferred on all three.
North Carolina rural hospitals kept closing or dropping inpatient care while Tim Moore's House refused to expand Medicaid. He finally relented in 2023, took a victory lap, and then voted for a federal bill that could end the whole program.
Illinois already lets parents opt their kids out of school mental health screenings. Miller's bill would require a separate signed permission slip for every one — and she calls the screenings 'invasive.'
He chairs the subcommittee that funds schools, health care and worker training. His FY27 bill eliminates adult job training, eliminates youth job training, and cuts Title I for low-income schools by $1.9 billion. Then he talked up the money for hospitals.
The PACT Act got 86 votes in the Senate. Idaho veterans have filed more than 11,500 claims under it. Risch voted no on five roll calls — including final passage and the July 2022 blockade that left veterans camped on the Capitol steps.
Fitzpatrick is one of only two Republicans who voted against the final budget bill. On May 22, 2025, when the same bill passed the House 215-214, he voted yes. CBO said the version he backed would cut $863 billion from Medicaid and CHIP.
Paxton's settlement with Texas Children's Hospital is finalized: $10 million, three doctors permanently stripped of their hospital privileges and two former ones barred for life, and the nation's first 'detransition clinic' due to open by October. A Stanford pediatrician calls it a clinic built by legal intimidation.