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News Releases

October 25 , 2004	"Dingell Drafting Legislation to Prevent Future Flu Vaccine Shortages"
June 21, 2004	"Dingell to Introduce Patients' Rights Bill After Supreme Court Sides with HMOs"
May 20, 2004	"Senior Democrats Call for Automatic Drug Subsidy Enrollment for Low-Income Seniors"
May 12, 2004	"Democrats Unveil Legislation To Help The Nation's Uninsured"
May 12, 2004	Statement of Congressman John D. Dingell at the press conference on introduction of three bills to help the uninsured
April 7, 2004	"New MedPAC Report Debunks Republican Rhetoric That Private Plans Save Money; Medicare's long-term financial outlook at stake"
April, 1, 2004	"Republican Drug Discount Cards Will Make Prescription Drugs More Affordable For Seniors - April Fool's!"
March 9, 2004	"New Research Supports Dingell's FamilyCare Legislation"
June 11, 2003	Statement of Congressman John D. Dingell, Press Conference on the Grassley-Baucus Medicare RX Bill
June 10, 2003	Statement of Congressman John D. Dingell, Association Health Plans Press Conference on H.R. 660
May 7, 2003	"Dingell and Bingaman Offer State Medicaid Programs Protection from President Bush's Budgetary Assault"
February 5, 2003	"Reps. Tauzin, Dingell Introduce SCHIP Funding Compromise"
January 13, 2003	"Dingell Hails Families USA Report on Medicaid"
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Statements

December 7, 2004	Subcommittee on Health and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Joint Hearing on "Medicaid Prescription Drug Reimbursement: Why The Government Pays Too Much"
November 18, 2004	Subcommittee on Health and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Joint Hearing on "Flu Vaccine: Protecting High-Risk Individuals and Strengthening the Market"
October 5, 2004	House Floor Debate on H.R. 4555, the "Mammography Quality Standards Reauthorization Act of 2004"
September 30, 2004	Full Committee Markup to consider S. 551, H.R. 4667, H.R. 918, H.R. 3015, H.R. 3858, H.Res. 567, H.Con.Res. 250, H.R. 2699, H.Res. 776
September 15, 2004	Full Committee Markup to consider H.Res. 745, a resolution of inquiry regarding the Cheney Energy Task Force
September 9, 2004	Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing on "Publication and Disclosure Issues in Anti-depressant Pediatric Clinical Trials"
September 9, 2004	House Floor Debate on the Stark Amendment to H.R. 5006
July 22, 2004	Subcommittee on Health hearing on "Health Information Technology: Improving Quality and Value of Patient Care"
July 14, 2004	House Floor Debate on S. 15, the "Project Bioshield Act of 2004"
June 24, 2004	Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing on "A Review of Hospital Billing and Collection Practices"
June 24, 2004	Opening Statement at the Full Committee Markup of H.R. 2029, H.R. 2023, S. 741, H.R. 4555, H.R. 3981, H.R. 4600
June 15, 2004	Subcommittee markup to consider H.R. 2023, the "Asthmatic Schoolchildren’s Treatment and Health Management Act of 2004"; H.R. 4555, the "Mammography Quality Standards Reauthorization Act of 2004"; and S. 741, the "Minor Use and Minor Species Animal Health Act of 2004"
May 20, 2004	Subcommittee hearing on "Prescription Drug Discount Cards: Immediate Savings For Seniors"
May 12, 2004	General Debate on H.R. 4280, the Medical Malpractice Liability Limitation Bill
May 5, 2004	Subcommittee hearing, "Physician Fee Schedule: A Review of the Current Medicare Payment System"
April 1, 2004	Subcommittee hearing on "Inter-Governmental Transfers: Violations of the Federal-State Medicaid Partnership or Legitimate State Budget Tool?"
March 25, 2004	Subcommittee hearing on "NIH: Re-Engineering Clinical Research"
March 10, 2004	Full Committee hearing on "A Review of the Administration's FY 2005 Health Care Priorities"
March 4, 2004	Subcommittee hearing on "Prescription Drug Monitoring Strategies to Promote Treatment and Deter Prescription Drug Abuse"
November 22, 2003	Floor consideration of the conference report on H.R. 1, the "Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act of 2003"
November 21, 2003	Rules Committee Meeting on H.R. 1, the "Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act of 2003"
November 20, 2003	prepared statement at the Conference Committee Meeting on H.R. 1, the "Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act of 2003"
October 15, 2003	Subcommittee hearing on "Evaluating Coordination of Care in Medicaid: Improving Quality and Clinical Outcomes"
October 8, 2003	Subcommittee hearing on "Challenges Facing the Medicaid Program in the 21st Century"
October 2, 2003	Joint full Committee hearing with the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions on "Managing Biomedical Research to Prevent and Cure Disease in the 21st Century: Matching NIH Policy with Science"
September 10, 2003	Full Committee Markup
July 24, 2003	Floor statement on the "Pharmaceutical Market Access Act of 2003"
July 16, 2003	Subcommittee hearing on "The Health Insurance Certificate Act of 2003"
July 16, 2003	Subcommittee hearing on "The Health Insurance Certificate Act of 2003"
July 15, 2003	Conference Committee Meeting on H.R. 1
July 14, 2003	Motion to Instruct Conferees on H.R. 1, the "Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act"
July 10, 2003	Subcommittee hearing on "The National Institutes of Health: Moving Research from the Bench to the Bedside"
June 26, 2003	Floor statement on H.R. 1, the "Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act"
June 18, 2003	Full Committee Markup, Democratic Drug Benefit Substitute
June 17, 2003	Full Committee Markup to Consider H.R.____, the "Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act of 2003"
June 3, 2003	Subcommittee hearing on "Assessing Initiatives to Increase Organ Donation"
June 5, 2003	Subcommittee hearing on "Consumer-Directed Services: Improving Medicaid Beneficiaries Access to Care"
May 15, 2003	Full Committee Markup of the Project Bioshield Act of 2003
April 9, 2003	Subcommittee hearing on "Improving and Strengthening Medicare"
April 8, 2003	Subcommittee hearing on "Designing a Twenty-First Century Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit"
March 31, 2003	Floor statement in Opposition to H.R. 1463, the "Smallpox Emergency Personnel Protection Act of 2003"
March 27, 2003	Subcommittee hearing on "Furthering Public Health Security: Project Bioshield"
March 26, 2003	Full Committee Markup of H.R. 810, the "Medicare Regulatory and Contracting Reform Act of 2003"
March 12, 2003	Floor statement on H.R. 342, the "Mosquito Abatement for Safety and Health Act"
March 12, 2003	Floor statement on H.R. 663, the "Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act"
March 12, 2003	Subcommittee hearing on "Medicaid Today: The State's Perspective"
March 4, 2003	Subcommittee markup of H.R. 5 regarding the Substitute Amendment See Section-by-Section Analysis of the Democratic Substitute
March 4, 2003	Subcommittee markup of H.R. 5 the "Help Efficient, Accessible, Low-cost, Timely Healthcare (HEALTH) Act of 2003"
March 4, 2003	on Introduction of the Medicare Rx Drug Benefit and Discount Act
February 27, 2003	Subcommittee hearing entitled "Assessing the Need to Enact Medical Liability Reform"
February 12, 2003	Full Committee Hearing on "A Review of the Administration FY2004 Health Care Priorities"
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Letters on Current Issues

December 9, 2004	from Chairman Barton and Ranking Member Dingell to HHS Secretary Thompson with recommendations regarding the Administration's plan to reform FDA's regulation of drug safety
December 3, 2004	to Dr. Kathleen Coelingh, Senior Director for Regulatory and Scientific Affairs, MedImmune, Inc., asking several additional questions for the record regarding the joint Subcommittee hearing entitled "Flu Vaccine: Protecting High-Risk Individuals and Strengthening the Market"
December 3, 2004	to Mr. Alan Rosenbloom, President and CEO, Pennsylvania Health Care Association, asking several additional questions for the record regarding the joint Subcommittee hearing entitled "Flu Vaccine: Protecting High-Risk Individuals and Strengthening the Market"
December 3, 2004	to Acting FDA Commissioner Crawford asking several additional questions for the record regarding the joint Subcommittee hearing entitled "Flu Vaccine: Protecting High-Risk Individuals and Strengthening the Market"
December 3, 2004	to Ms. Janet Heinrich, Director, Healthcare/Public Health Issues, U.S. GAO, asking several additional questions for the record regarding the joint Subcommittee hearing entitled "Flu Vaccine: Protecting High-Risk Individuals and Strengthening the Market"
December 3, 2004	to Ms. Janet Olszewski, Director, Michigan Department of Community Health, asking several additional questions for the record regarding the joint Subcommittee hearing entitled "Flu Vaccine: Protecting High-Risk Individuals and Strengthening the Market"
December 3, 2004	to Dr. Julie Louise Gerberding, Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention asking several additional questions for the record regarding the joint Subcommittee hearing entitled "Flu Vaccine: Protecting High-Risk Individuals and Strengthening the Market"
December 3, 2004	to Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, asking several additional questions for the record regarding the joint Subcommittee hearing entitled "Flu Vaccine: Protecting High-Risk Individuals and Strengthening the Market"
October 1, 2004	to HHS Secretary Thompson from Reps. Dingell, Rangel, Waxman, Brown, and Stark requesting that CMS discontinue PPO demonstrations and reimburse Medicare beneficiaries and state Medicaid programs that were overcharged as a result of plan abuse
September 23, 2004	to HHS Secretary Thompson asking for the Department's views on H.R. 2699, the "National Uniformity for Food Act of 2003"
July 15, 2004	to Ms. Dara Corrigan, Acting Principal Deputy Inspector General, HHS, regarding the summary released by the IG's office regarding the investigation of the withholding of Medicare cost estimates from Congress
June 11, 2004	to CMS Administrator McClellan asking several additional questions for the record regarding the May 20, 2004, hearing entitled "Medicare Prescription Drug Discount Cards: Immediate Savings for Seniors"
June 10, 2004	to CMS Administrator McClellan asking several additional questions for the record regarding the May 20, 2004, hearing entitled "Medicare Prescription Drug Discount Cards: Immediate Savings for Seniors"
June 8, 2004	to HHS Secretary Thompson from several Members of Congress urging CMS to use its administrative authority to improve the level of help for low-income Medicare beneficiaries
June 8, 2004	to HHS Secretary Thompson from several Members of Congress urging CMS to use its administrative authority to improve the level of help for low-income Medicare beneficiaries
June 3, 2004	to CMS Administrator McClellan inquiring about the Medicare beneficiary education campaign for both the Medicare Prescription Drug Discount Card and the Medicare Prescription Drug benefit
May 28, 2004	to Comptroller General Walker from Reps. Dingell and Capps asking GAO to investigate the decision by the FDA to find "non-approvable" an application to make emergency contraception available over the counter without a prescription
May 24, 2004	to HHS Secretary Thompson from several Members of Congress urging HHS to reject a proposed waiver for the State of Florida to privatize the eligibility determination process for Medicaid
May 21, 2004	to HHS Secretary Thompson from several Members of Congress asking that the Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) be appropriately recognized and preserved in the implementation of the new Medicare law
March 29, 2004	to HHS Secretary Thompson requesting that HHS table a proposal that would change "Form CMS-37" and affect the way the Federal Government pays its share of Medicaid funding
March 29, 2004	to HHS Secretary Thompson requesting that HHS table a proposal that would change "Form CMS-37" and affect the way the Federal Government pays its share of Medicaid funding
March 15, 2004	to HHS Secretary Thompson questioning Secretary Thompson about allegations that the Bush Administration withheld cost estimates of last year's Medicare prescription drug law
February 4, 2004	to HHS Secretary Thompson from several Ranking Democratic Members of House Committees and Subcommittees requesting information regarding the Administration's effort to educate beneficiaries about the Medicare law that was passed last November
November 5, 2003	to President Bush from Representative John D. Dingell and Senator Edward M. Kennedy regarding the Medicare Conference
October 20, 2003	to House Chairmen Grassley, Thomas, and Tauzin regarding the Medicare Prescription Drug Conference
June 11, 2003	to Comptroller General Walker asking the GAO to review states' policies for cost-sharing in their Medicaid and SCHIP programs
April 30, 2003	to Committee Chairman Tauzin and Subcommittee Chairman Bilirakis stating procedural concerns
April 24, 2003	to the National Governors Association Medicaid Task Force Members regarding Medicaid
April 4, 2003	to Conferees on the FY 2004 Budget Resolution from 187 Democratic House Members regarding their strong opposition to any cuts to the Medicaid program or the Children's Health Insurance Program in the final resolution
March 25, 2003	to Ms. Edita Kaye, President, The Skinny Pill, threatening to subpoena the firm unless it supplies the requested information on the “Skinny Pill for Kids” by Friday, April 4, 2003
March 25, 2003	to Mr. Dennis Gay, President and CEO, Basic Research LLC, regarding a dietary supplement Basic Research LLC is marketing called "PediaLean"
March 25, 2003	to DEA Acting Administrator Brown requesting detailed information and a private briefing on the safety, proliferation and potential loopholes associated with “pro-steroid” and “precursor steroid” products
March 25, 2003	to FDA Commissioner McClellan requesting detailed information and a private briefing on the safety, proliferation and potential loopholes associated with “pro-steroid” and “precursor steroid” products
March 19, 2003	to HHS Secretary Thompson regarding proposed changes by the Administration to the Medicare appeals process
March 14, 2003	to Congressional Budget Office Director Holtz-Eakin with questions in reference to the Budget Resolution for FY 2004, as reported by the Committee on the Budget
February 28, 2003	to Mr. Robert Chinery, President of Cytodyne Technologies, requesting an examination of Xenadrine RFA-1, an ephedra-containing supplement that Cytodyne Tech. manufactures
February 13, 2003	to President Bush asking questions about the President's intention to tie significant changes to Medicare to his proposal to extend prescription drug benefits to seniors
January 17, 2003	to HHS Secretary Thompson expressing serious concern about a change in policy that would undermine access to emergency services for low-income Americans
January 16, 2003	to HHS Secretary Thompson requesting HHS provide Congress with three statutorily-mandated reports that are overdue
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Dear Colleague Letters

(Letters to Fellow House Members on Current Legislation) [These letters are in PDF format. You will need Adobe Acrobat to read them. If this format will not work for you, please contact our office for a copy.]
June 21, 2004	"Time To Restore Patients' Health Care Rights; Cosponsor the New Patients' Bill of Rights"
March 8, 2004	"...herbal supplements labeled 'ephedra-free' re not necessarily safer than ephedra"
July 23, 2003	"Imported Prescription Drugs Don't Need to Poison to be Dangerous"
July 22, 2003	"Preserve Medicare's Universality"
July 10, 2003	"Prescription Drug Reimportation: Access Versus Safety"
June 24, 2003	"Defining Where We Stand on Medicare Prescription Drugs and Medicare Privatization: Post-Markup Report from Energy and Commerce and Ways and Means Committees"
June 2, 2003	"Join the American Federation of Teachers in Support of H.R. 1199, the "Medicare RX Drug Benefit and Discount Act"
April 10, 2003	"Privacy is a Non-Partisan Issue; Put a "STOHP" to Invasions of Your Privacy"
April 1, 2003	"Instruct House Budget Conferees NOT to Cut Medicaid in the Final Budget Resolution"
March 10, 2003	"Oppose H.R. 5 the "Anti-Patients Bill of Rights"
January 17, 2003	"Help Low-Income Families Keep Their Health Insurance For Their Children"
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