Advocacy & Policy

AAMC Chief Public Policy Officer Atul Grover, M.D., Ph.D., urged a House subcommittee to reinvest in national priorities.

The Senate Oct. 29 approved, 64-35, a two-year budget agreement (H.R. 1314) that would raise the caps on discretionary spending above sequestration levels in fi

With only two weeks before the federal debt is projected to breach its statutory limit, congressional Republicans continue struggling to find a solution to prev

The AAMC, with support of the Congressional Academic Medicine Caucus (CAMC), hosted an Oct. 13 congressional briefing, titled “One Year Later: Lessons Learned f

In an Oct. 15 letter to Congress, Department of Treasury Secretary Jack Lew warned that the “extraordinary measures” that have been employed to preserve the nat

The Senate Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Subcommittee Oct. 7 held a hearing to discuss the importance of investing in the National Institutes of Health (NI

The Senate Sept. 24 rejected a short-term funding extension that also would have stripped federal funds from Planned Parenthood. The Senate failed, 47-52, to sh

With less than two weeks before the start of the new federal fiscal year, Republican leaders on Capitol Hill are scrambling to avert a government shutdown by re

The AAMC joined more than 2,500 national, state, and local organizations in a Sept. 10 letter calling on Congress to avoid the impending fiscal crisis and end s

AAMC President and CEO Darrell G. Kirch, M.D., Sept. 4 applauded Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) for introducing the Next Generation