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Background In an effort to win the support of health insurance companies during the debate over Obamacare in 2009, three health insurer bailout provisions were written into the bill to compensate health insurance companies for insuring high-cost consumers in the Obamacare state exchanges. These three bailout provisions include risk corridors, reinsurance and cost-sharing reduction subsidies. Combined, these could cost taxpayers $170 billion over the next decade. The risk corridor and...

Background President Donald Trump, Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made it clear before the November 2016 election that pro-growth tax reform would be a major legislative priority for Republicans in 2017 if they were given the chance to govern. Now that the American people gave Republicans control of the House, Senate and White House, there is a real opportunity to achieve comprehensive, pro-growth tax reform. A...

"YES" on the 21st Century Aviation Innovation, Reform, and Reauthorization (AIRR) Act (H.R. 2997)

Washington—According to reports, the Trump administration will submit a $5.9 billion emergency funding request to Congress potentially as soon as Friday. As The Heritage Foundation explained this week, emergency spending must meet five criteria: necessary, sudden, urgent, unforeseen, and not permanent. Heritage Action released the following statement from Vice President Dan Holler: "Heritage Action is eager to review the full proposal, but initial reports are largely encouraging as FEMA's immediate...

The House will vote on an amendment offered by Reps. Gary Palmer (R-Ala.) and Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) to H.R. 3354, the fiscal year 2018 omnibus spending measure. The amendment would prohibit funding to implement the D.C. Reproductive Health Non Discrimination Amendment Act (RHNDA).

The House will vote on an amendment offered by Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) to H.R. 3354, the fiscal year 2018 omnibus spending measure. The amendment would reduce total appropriations to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by $1,869,087,000.

On Wednesday, the House passed a $7.85 billion emergency spending measure to replenish the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s dwindling disaster relief fund by a vote of 419 – 3. Last week, Heritage Action said the measure was “largely encouraging” as 95 percent of the spending was targeted to FEMA’s disaster relief fund, which is expected to run out of money at the end of the week due to ongoing efforts...

On Wednesday, the House passed a $7.85 billion emergency spending measure to replenish the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s dwindling disaster relief fund by a vote of 419 – 3. Last week, Heritage Action said the measure was “largely encouraging” as 95 percent of the spending was targeted to FEMA’s disaster relief fund, which is expected to run out of money at the end of the week due to ongoing efforts...

On Wednesday, the House passed a $7.85 billion emergency spending measure to replenish the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s dwindling disaster relief fund by a vote of 419 – 3. Last week, Heritage Action said the measure was “largely encouraging” as 95 percent of the spending was targeted to FEMA’s disaster relief fund, which is expected to run out of money at the end of the week due to ongoing efforts...

The House will vote on an amendment offered by Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) to H.R. 3354, the fiscal year 2018 omnibus spending measure. The amendment would reduce funding for the Project-Based Rental Assistance Housing Program at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) by $266 million and apply the savings to the spending reduction account.

The House will vote on an amendment offered by Rep. Tom McClintock (R-Calif.) to H.R. 3354, the fiscal year 2018 omnibus spending measure. The amendment would reduce funding for the Essential Air Services (EAS) program by $150 million and apply the savings to the spending reduction account.

The House will vote on an amendment offered by Rep. Ted Budd (R-N.C.) to H.R. 3354, the fiscal year 2018 omnibus spending measure. The amendment would eliminate $900 million in specifically designated spending contained in the Transportation-Housing and Urban Development (T-HUD) appropriations bill that would go directly to the Gateway project – a $29.5 billion tunnel, bridge and infrastructure project intended to improve Amtrak’s passenger rail service between Newark and...

Washington—This morning, the Trump administration announced it would end the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program on March 5, 2018. As The Heritage Foundation wrote at the time, "implementing broad swathes of that proposed [DREAM] act by fiat ... is wrong and sets a dangerous precedent." Heritage Action released the following statement from Chief Executive Officer Michael A. Needham: "The Trump administration deserves credit for beginning the process...

Congress will return from August recess September 5th and have a mere 12 legislative days to address a number of "must pass" legislative priorities including the expiration of discretionary appropriations that must be renewed within the constraints of the Budget Control Act (BCA) for fiscal year 2018, the debt limit, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). On...

What does this bill do? This bill ensures the food stamp program (SNAP) has meaningful work requirements for able-bodied adults without dependents (ABAWDs) by: eliminating statewide or partial waivers from the ABAWD work requirement;shortening the three-month rule, which permits ABAWDs to receive food stamps without working or participating in other work activity, to one month;lowering the 15 percent exemption rule, which permits states to exempt 15 percent of ABAWDs each...

Heritage Action will key vote the following amendment(s) to the Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 2018 [Make America Secure and Prosperous Appropriations Act of 2018] (H.R. 3354).

The Employee Rights Act (S. 1774), introduced by Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), would protect workers from union pressure by putting power in the hands of employees and making union leaders more accountable to their members. As the Heritage Foundation notes, if union bosses “were angels, such changes would be unnecessary” but “since they are not” new protections are necessary.

On Wednesday, the House passed a $7.85 billion emergency spending measure to replenish the Federal Emergency Management Agency's dwindling disaster relief fund by a vote of 419 - 3. Last week, Heritage Action said the measure was "largely encouraging" as 95 percent of the spending was targeted to FEMA's disaster relief fund, which is expected to run out of money at the end of the week due to ongoing efforts...

The Senate is currently considering the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2018 (S. 1519), and multiple amendment votes are expected throughout the week. In the House, Heritage Action key voted multiple amendments on H.R. 2810, including those related to Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC), Davis-Bacon prevailing wage provisions, Buy America protections, amnesty related provisions, and funding for gender transitions. Similar amendments are expected in the Senate, and...

Washington—This morning, Senators Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.) unveiled a 140-page bill to fundamentally restructure Obamacare. The Heritage Foundation said a previous version of Graham-Cassidy incorporated a number of important provisions but ultimately "falls short of fully repealing Obamacare and replacing" the law, in part because "it doesn't repeal all of Obamacare's taxes" and "takes policy in the wrong direction by spending the money from the Obamacare taxes...