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Jun 27 2017

Heinrich Leads Press Conference On Harmful Impact Of Senate Health Care Bill On The Opioid Crisis

Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the Joint Economic Committee, hosted a press conference with U.S. Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Joe Manchin (D-W.V.), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), and Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) to highlight the devastating impact that the Senate Republican health care bill would have on curbing the opioid epidemic. Additional speakers included Michael Botticelli, Executive Director, Grayken Center for Addiction Medicine at Boston Medical Center, and Dr. John Aldis and Shelby, who were recently featured in a New Yorker story about the opioid epidemic.

Jun 26 2017

May Economic Snapshot of the States

Joint Economic Committee Democrats today released the “May Economic Snapshot of the States,” which tracks state economic performance, families’ economic security, how well states are preparing for the economic future with investments in people’s health and learning, and the costs of living that weigh on working families’ minds.

Jun 23 2017

JEC Democrats: Senate TrumpCare Bill – Still Mean, Still Lacks Heart

Joint Economic Committee Democrats today released a fact sheet on the Senate Republican health care bill that will help the wealthiest at the expense of hardworking American families while putting corporate executives back in charge of Americans’ health care. The bill reverses the progress made in expanding access to, and containing costs of, health care.

Jun 22 2017

Heinrich Rejects Republican Health Care Bill, Says It's Everything We Feared it Would Be

U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the Joint Economic Committee, is rejecting the health care proposal released today by Senate Republicans. For weeks, a small group of Senate Republicans worked behind closed doors without bipartisan input to draft the bill based on the health care bill that passed the U.S. House of Representatives.

Jun 21 2017

Romper - Here's What Trumpcare Would Do To Rural Hospitals & Families

For rural families in particular, U.S. health care policy is lacking. Though the Affordable Care Act (ACA) offered some solutions, it's by no means sufficient in practice. A proposed alternative should work to meet the needs of rural families a bit better. That's why what Trumpcare would do to rural hospitals, according to a report released by Democrats on the Joint Economic Committee and the Senate Special Committee on Aging, is so troubling.

Jun 21 2017

High Country News - New health care act would harm farmers and ranchers

According to a May report from the Joint Economic Committee, that would cause premiums to increase for individuals that remain covered there. And third, the AHCA could also make it harder for some people to gain coverage because of pre-existing conditions. “(The AHCA) would devastate rural communities, including increasing the number of uninsured, stripping $839 billion from Medicaid, threatening rural hospital closures and destabilizing individual marketplaces,” Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-New Mexico, ranking minority staff member on the Joint Economic Committee, said in a recent statement.

Jun 21 2017

JEC, Senate Aging Dems Report: TrumpCare Threatens Rural Hospitals

Today, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Ranking Member of the Joint Economic Committee and Bob Casey (D-PA), Ranking Member of the Senate Special Committee on Aging released a joint report, “TrumpCare Threatens Rural Hospitals,” outlining the devastating impact that the Republican health care plan, a.k.a. TrumpCare, would have on rural hospitals.

Jun 19 2017

Heinrich: Congress Must Take Energy Innovation Seriously

Joint Economic Committee Democrats today released a report on the barriers to clean energy innovation that are preventing the U.S. economy from fully capitalizing on clean energy’s economic potential. Instead of prioritizing energy innovation to position the United States as the global leader, Congressional Republicans often cite federal funding in climate change as government waste, and President Trump’s budget proposes deep cuts to energy innovation programs at the Department of Energy.

Jun 19 2017

NRDC - American Economy Threatened by Federal Cuts to Efficiency

More than 3.3 million jobs stand to be created over the next decade to implement energy-efficiency upgrades, according to the report from Democrats on the Congressional Joint Economic Committee. With 2.2 million people employed in the energy efficiency sector in 2016, this sector already represents a sizeable portion of the national energy economy. And the employment numbers are on the upswing. Energy-efficiency businesses forecast 13 percent growth this year alone -- almost double the 7 percent growth seen from 2015 to 2016.