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By Dan Vergano, BuzzFeed News Reporter
Instead of debating hidden camera videos, Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards spent Tuesday defending her group's finances to Congress.
The highly partisan House Oversight Committee hearing, chaired by Rep. Jason Chaffetz of Utah, came as one of four committees investigating the $1.3 billion women's health care group in the aftermath of videos released by an anti-abortion group over the summer.
Washington, DC- Today, Congressman Brendan Boyle (D-PA-13) commended Vice President Joseph Biden, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr. for the announcement that millions of dollars in grants will be used to analyze thousands of rape kits that have been sitting on local law enforcement shelves for years, neglected and untested; which left victims in unimaginable limbo, without any closure or sense of justice.
Congressman Brendan Boyle joined a bipartisan coalition on July 28 to introduce the Medicare Common Access Card Act (H.R. 3220), a bill that would require the Department of Health and Human Services to initiate a smart card pilot program and issue new, more secure Medicare cards to select participants.
Washington, DC- Today, Congressman Brendan Boyle (D-PA-13) joined a bi-partisan coalition to introduce H.R.3220, the Medicare Common Access Card Act. The bill would require the Department of Health and Human Services to initiate a "smart card pilot program" and issue new, more secure Medicare cards to select participants. These new cards would better protect personal information by moving it from the front of the card to a secure, encrypted microchip inserted into the card.
WASHINGTON, D.C.– Today, Congressman Brendan Boyle (D-PA-13) highlighted a new report showing that 6.4 million Americans in the 34 states with Federally Facilitated Marketplaces would lose tax credits to help pay for insurance coverage, if the Supreme Court were to rule against the Administration in the Republican, politically-motivated lawsuit of King v Burwell.
[Washington, D.C.] – Today, Congressman Brendan Boyle (D-PA-13) announced that, on the 5th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians are benefiting from this landmark health care law.
"Over the last five years since the Affordable Care Act was signed into law, millions of Americans have been seeing the benefits of the law, including lower costs and better coverage," stated Congressman Boyle. "This includes hundreds of thousands of people right here in Pennsylvania."
On February 15, 2015, the second year of Open Enrollment came to a close with 471,930 Pennsylvania consumers selecting a plan or being automatically reenrolled in quality, affordable coverage through the Health Insurance Marketplace. Nationwide, about 11.4 million Americans selected Marketplace plans or were automatically re-enrolled, including about 8.6 million people in the states that use the HealthCare.gov platform (such as Pennsylvania), and about 2.8 million in the State Based Marketplaces based on those states' preliminary data.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, President Obama signed H.R. 203, the Clay Hunt Suicide Prevention for American Veterans (SAV) Act into law. This bipartisan legislation – which unanimously passed both the House and Senate – addresses the epidemic of suicide among our nation's veterans.
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Congressman Brendan F. Boyle, in partnership with Enroll America, will present an Affordable Care Act Healthcare Marketplace Insurance Enrollment Fair on Saturday, February 7th, 2015 from 11:00am to 3:00pm. at the Lawncrest Recreation Center, located at 6000 Rising Sun Ave, Philadelphia PA 19111.