Frank Pallone

Cassidy is requesting stakeholder feedback on the proposal be submitted to patientai.help.senate.gov. That's patientai.help.senate.gov. No later than December 1st.

House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, a Democrat from New Jersey, has requested that the Government Accountability Office conduct a review of TrumpRx.gov. Pallone writes, quote, The Trump administration has claimed that TrumpRx has generated substantial new savings for American patients, and goes on to say, however, it has failed to disclose critical information allowing the public to scrutinize those claims, unquote.

He asks that the GAO analyze whether and how the platform tracks TrumpRx usage, and whether it's possible to calculate what, if any, savings it's provided for Americans.

Twelve Democratic senators led by Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon, and Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Ranking Member Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont who caucuses with Senate Democrats, have written to the nation's major health insurance companies, asking about their involvement in the Trump administration's decision to disenroll 760,000 marketplace patients due to suspected fraud.

Gus Bilirakis, Republican of Florida, Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade.

Rep. Frank Pallone, Democrat of New Jersey, echoed that sentiment.

Taking this action will increase the sunshine hours in the evening, allowing many Americans to leave work for more sunlight in the winter months, not darkness, Pallone, the top Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee said.

More evening daylight, he said, would provide a needed boost to our tourism industry.

Next story, second to last story, but a new bill would overhaul the No Surprises Act's arbitration process.

So Representative Frank Pallone, who is one of the law's original authors, introduced a new bill to scrap No Surprises arbitration entirely.

The plan would instead pay out-of-network providers a set rate adjusted each year for inflation, and Georgetown researchers estimate the arbitration has added more than $22 billion in costs since 2022, driven mainly by providers filing and winning an outsized share of disputes.

I presume with the arbitration, we're talking about the IDR process.

And we have Massachusetts Ed Markey, Michigan's Gary Peters.

We have New Jersey's Frank Pallone.

Is he outgoing? No, no, he stayed.

Excellent.

We are stakeholders in our communities, in our society, in our country.

And I think that's That's really reflected in the Fresno example.

Of course, folks like Frank Pallone, he founded the Congressional Armenian Caucus.

Ed Markey just went to, a year or two back, went to Azerbaijan during one of their conferences.

I think in the grand scheme of things, this law is here to stay, right? They're pushing Congress.

They reached out to, I believe his name is Frank Pallone.

He's from New Jersey.

And they wanted him to pass a bill basically to put the clamps down on this IDR.

I mean, I think if the bill passes, right, that's just electricity piece.

I mean, I've been, I've talked to Frank Pallone, who would be chair of energy and commerce, who's very, you know, wants to be very aggressive in this space, in the data center space, talks about federal standards, but not just electricity, water, sort of you know, community benefits, kind of a level of transparency that goes on.

So like, I think they want to, there's folks who want to tackle like broadly.

I mean, I don't think this would be the end of the story at all.