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Friday, February 26, 2021 This Week’s Dose Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) nominee Xavier Becerra testified in front of two Senate Committees while the House continued to advance the coronavirus (COVID-19) relief package.  Congress House Democrats are Moving COVID-19 Relief Legislation. On Monday, the House Budget Committee met to compile the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, that Democrats are preparing to pass through reconciliation. The bill includes public health funding to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, Medicaid policy...

Two Senate committee chiefs are looking at ways to raise taxes on companies paying workers less than $15 an hour, as part of a new strategy to include President Joe Biden’s push to boost the minimum wage to that level in his Covid-19 aid bill. Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders and Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden said Thursday evening they were considering the strategy after prospects for making a wage increase part of the relief package were dealt a severe blow. Earlier Thursday, the Senate parliamentarian ruled that Democrats’ minimum-wage proposal fell afoul of ru...

The Senate Homeland Security Committee postponed a morning meeting where the nomination was going to be discussed.

Two Senate committees abruptly delayed planned votes Wednesday on Neera Tanden’s imperiled nomination to head th

Senate committees postpone votes on Indian-American cabinet nominee By Arul Louis New York– Two Senate committees unexpectedly postponed on Wednesday preliminary votes on confirming Neera Tanden, the embattled Indian-American nominee for a cabinet position, as the powerful director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). With the votes uncertain for her confirmation by the full Senate after a key Democratic Party Senator Joe Manchin opposed her, the Homeland Security and Budget Committees delayed the preliminary votes on approving her nomination that were scheduled for Wednesday. Demo...