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Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP)
This week, the Senate HELP committee continued to mark up a draft health care overhaul bill drafted by its chairman, Sen. Edward Kennedy.
Continue reading...Senate Finance Committee
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
The Senate Finance Committee, whose members have been negotiating a bipartisan proposal behind the scenes this week left Thursday for the July Fourth recess without a deal, although Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus said he has developed policy to pay for legislation that would cost less than $1 trillion over 10 years.
Continue reading...Health Care Reform Update
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
This week Congress leaves for the July 4th recess in the midst of the Heath Care Reform debate. At this time, both the Senate and the House of Representatives is engaging in talks over draft proposals with the hopes of bringing one collective measure to a final vote this fall. BIAA will continue [...]
Continue reading...Urge House Members to Cosponsor HR 1347, The Concussion Treatment and Care Tools Act of 2009
Monday, June 8, 2009
As reported in an earlier edition of Policy Corner, members of the House of Representatives have introduced the Concussion Treatment and Care Tools Act of 2009 (HR 1347), a bill designed to ensure adoption, dissemination, and implementation by elementary and secondary schools of concussion management guidelines for the purpose of better treatment and awareness of [...]
Continue reading...NIDDR Releases notice of proposed priorities for RRTCs and RERCs
Monday, May 11, 2009
This week the Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services under the Department of Education proposed funding priorities for the Disability and Rehabilitation Research Projects and Centers Program administered by NIDRR. Specifically, this notice proposes four priorities for the Rehabilitation Research and Training Centers (RRTCs) and three priorities for the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Centers [...]
Continue reading...BIAA submits FY10 testimony to both the House and Senate Appropriations Committees
Monday, May 11, 2009
This week, BIAA submitted testimony to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees, Subcommittees on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies.
Continue reading...Appropriations Update
Monday, March 30, 2009
This week, both House and Senate Budget Committees adopted budget resolutions creating the framework for this year’s spending bills. Although both plans largely adhere to the priorities that President Obama laid out in February, they also scale back some of his spending and tax measures for fiscal year 2010, with the House proposing $7 billion less [...]
Continue reading...Presidential Budget
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
On Tuesday, February 24, 2009, President Obama addressed Congress and the Nation to announce an overall plan to spend $634 billion on healthcare reform. The President’s address simply provided a general overview of his budget that will be released in its entirety later this spring. Given that this was just an overview, no specific traumatic brain [...]
Continue reading...Help us designate March as Brain Injury Awareness Month
Monday, February 9, 2009
On February 4, 2009, Representative Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ), Co-chair of the Congressional Brain Injury Task Force, introduced legislation that would designate March as “Brain Injury Awareness” month (H.Con.Res.40). In this Concurrent resolution, Congressman Pascrell expressed the need for enhanced public awareness of Traumatic Brain Injury and support for a National Brain Injury Awareness Month. To date, [...]
Continue reading...Economic Stimulus Legislation Update
Monday, February 9, 2009
Senate moderates worked late into Thursday night looking for a compromise that would scale back the economic stimulus bill (H.R. 1) towards the $800 billion mark. A few Democratic moderates were convinced last night that they were inching closer to a deal that would win support from a small group of Republicans and perhaps [...]
Continue reading...- Tell Your Senators To Increase Funding for Important Brain Injury Programs!
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