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UPDATE: House Appropriations Committee approves SFOPs legislation
Late last week, the House Appropriations Committee debated and approved Fiscal Year (FY) 2013 appropriations legislation for the State and Foreign Operations (SFOPS) account, which includes funding...
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Advisory panel, Congress move to advance FDA’s role in global health
Recently, a US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) panel recommended that the HIV/AIDS drug Truvada be approved for HIV prevention among certain groups at risk of infection. Known as pre-exposure...
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Reducing child deaths worldwide must involve research
Combating preventable child deaths worldwide is an “investment that will pay dividends for years to come,” Deputy National Security Advisor Dennis McDonough said last week at a major conference at...
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What’s Ahead on the Hill
In this feature on Breakthroughs, we provide an update on what’s currently happening with global health in Congress and an outlook for future legislative activity. Over the past several weeks, Congress...
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What’s Ahead on the Hill
In this feature on Breakthroughs, we provide an update on what’s currently happening with global health in Congress and an outlook for future legislative activity. As Congress starts the August recess,...
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What’s ahead on the Hill
In this feature on Breakthroughs, we provide an update on what’s currently happening with global health in Congress and an outlook for future legislative activity. Following the August recess and Labor...
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Update: White House releases budget report, House passes FY 2013 Continuing...
Since our last update on the latest budget action on the Hill, two significant events happened late last week in Congress and at the White House. First, the White House’s Office of Management and...
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Halting the fiscal cliff: How will the latest budget negotiations impact...
Going into December 2012, Congress had neither completed its work on the federal budget for fiscal year (FY) 2013 nor decided how to avoid sequestration—widespread and indiscriminate cuts to all...
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GHTC members urge Congress to protect global health research funding
Earlier this week, the GHTC and other global health and international development advocates called on the House Appropriations State and Foreign Operations subcommittee to fully fund key programs in...
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Budget update: Congress passes budget package for FY2013, while House and...
Earlier this week, both the House and Senate passed a budget package to fund the government through the remainder of fiscal year (FY) 2013, thereby averting a government shutdown when current funding...
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President’s FY2014 budget has varying news for global health and research...
Wednesday, the White House released President Obama’s fiscal year (FY) 2014 budget request, which overall has mixed results for global health and research programs. Below, we provide specific details...
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New bill would bolster USAID’s role in global health research
Earlier this month, Reps. Albio Sires (D-NJ) and Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL) introduced the 21st Century Global Health Technology Act, which would make several important and welcome changes to global...
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New bill would prompt welcome reforms to US foreign assistance programs,...
Last week, Reps. Gerry Connolly (D-VA), Karen Bass (D-CA), and Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) introduced the Global Partnerships Act of 2013. The bill is a welcome step to reform the US government’s foreign...
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What’s ahead on the Hill: Congress moving slowly on a federal budget deal
Congress is heading for its July 4 recess next week, having made a few incremental steps toward a fiscal year (FY) 2014 budget for the federal government—including releasing spending levels for several...
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What’s Ahead on the Hill: New bill would improve transparency of US foreign...
Last week, a bipartisan group of legislators in both the House and Senate introduced the Foreign Aid Transparency and Accountability Act of 2013. Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Ben Cardin (D-MD) and...
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House subcommittee bill would cut global health and international development...
The House State and Foreign Operations (SFOPS) Appropriations Subcommittee on Friday held a hearing on its fiscal year (FY) 2014 budget legislation. The bill funds programs at the State Department and...
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Federal budget update, Part 1: State Department and USAID
Recent weeks have seen a flurry of activity for both the House and Senate appropriations committees. Congressional policymakers have approved several pieces of fiscal year (FY) 2014 budget legislation,...
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Federal budget update, Part 2: DoD, CDC, FDA, and NIH
As we discussed yesterday, lawmakers in the House and Senate have been busy with several pieces of legislation that would fund global health and research efforts across the federal government. Our...
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What’s ahead on the Hill: The top five priorities for Congress before the end...
Now that Labor Day has passed and Washington, DC, is starting to cool down, members of Congress are filtering back into town from their August recess travels. Some were conducting district work, others...
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Impacts of federal budget compromise emerging
After two-and-a-half weeks in limbo, government employees were able to return to work on October 17th—when Congress finally reached a temporary agreement to re-open the government. As we’ve highlighted...
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