DeLauro Plans To Use HHS Appropriations Subcommittee For Oversight

The new Democratic chair of the House subcommittee that handles HHS appropriations pledged Tuesday (Feb. 5) to use her position not just for budgeting purposes but also for aggressive oversight of Trump administration policies on the Affordable Care Act. Her first such oversight hearing is scheduled for Wednesday and is one of three simultaneous House hearings on the administration’s ACA policies that Democrats scheduled for the day after the State of the Union address. “Yes, we will have budget hearings,...