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This week, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health held its first hearing of the year focused on the critical importance of Medicaid as a source of health care, including long-term care, for Americans with disabilities.

A good deal of the hearing focused on Bush Administration proposed regulations which effectively hold states back from making progress towards transitioning individuals with disabilities back into their communities. 

For more information on testimony at this hearing, please visit http://energycommerce.house.gov/cmte_mtgs/110-he-hrg.011608.MedicaidDisabilities.shtml.

SENATE PASSES TBI ACT REAUTHORIZATION BILL

Earlier today (Tuesday, December 11, 2007), the Senate passed by voice vote S. 793, legislation to reauthorize the TBI Act. The reauthorization includes provisions to continue and hopefully expand TBI Act programs, such as the HRSA State Grant and CDC surveillance programs.

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The House is scheduled to vote on Dec. 11 on a multi-bill “omnibus” Fiscal Year 2008 appropriations bill which splits the difference between the White House and Congressional budget proposals.

The omnibus appropriations package is expected to consist of the 11 remaining spending bills - including the Labor-HHS-Education spending bill, which funds TBI programs - totaling $10.6 billion less than what Congress had originally planned. The new Labor-HHS-Education bill spending allocation in such an omnibus bill is expected to be approximately $3.5 billion less than its current form.

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Congress is still working on Fiscal Year 2008 appropriations. At least three options, as explained below, appear to be under consideration.

As events are in flux at this point, please click on the “Take Action” button in the upper right-hand corner of this email to call your congressional representatives and urge them to ensure that, regardless of what appropriations end-game strategy plays out, the funding levels for TBI programs contained in the Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill recently passed by Congress are enacted into law this year.

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Name: VALERIE NIENBERG
valerie.nienberg@scripps.com
April 19, 2006

STUART — Author Dave King wrote his first novel without a net. Or at least without an outline.

“I started with an outline and an ending in mind, but then I saw that the parts of the book that really came alive were when I strayed from that,” said King, who is a former painter, spoke to members of the Literary Society about his first novel, “The Ha-Ha,” Tuesday in Stuart. “So I very dramatically threw it out, I deleted it from my computer.”

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Seniors who fail to sign up for Medicare benefit by May 15 face big risks, including penalties to join and higher premiums

Name : MATT PACENZA, Staff writer

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