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Candidates for U.S. Senate discuss public health issues

October 13, 2020

Candidates for U.S. Senate discuss public health issues

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TOM: MORE COMMITMENT 2020 COVERAGE NOW. PUBLIC HEALTH IS AT THE FOREFRONT OF THE ELECTION RIGHT NOW, CONSIDERING THE STRAIN ON THE SYSTEM AMID THE PANDEMIC SO WE ASKED THE CANDIDATES FOR U.S. SENATE ABOUT POTENTIAL THREATS TO THE HEALTH OF AMERICAN HERE ARE THEIR ANSWERS. >> ONE OF THE LESSONS OF THIS PANDEMIC IS THAT THIS IS NOT GOING TO BE THE ONLY, SADLY, THIS IS NOT GOING TO BE THE ONLY HEALTH CHALLENGE WE ARE GOING TO FACE. AND SO WE’VE GOT TO LOOK AT TH LESSONS FROM THE CORONAVIRUS AND PUT IN PLACE A SYSTEM THAT N NOT ONLY WORN US FASTER — WARN US FASTER. IT’S UNFORTUNATE THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP DISMANTLED THE UNIT WITHIN THE NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL THAT WAS, HAD AS ITS RESPONSIBILITY TO DETERMINE IF

GOP Senate Control in Jeopardy Due to Lack of Clear Health Care Message. The Solution Is Price Transparency.

October 13, 2020

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Republican control of the Senate is in jeopardy. Tight Senate races in Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, Maine, North Carolina and elsewhere threaten the GOP’s three-seat majority. RealClearPolitics polling suggests the battle for the Senate is currently a tossup.

Senate Democrats have indicated they are willing to nuke the longstanding legislative filibuster, allowing them to pass legislation with just 51 Senate votes (or 50 if they also win the presidency). This year’s Senate election is, therefore, the most important in the chamber’s history.

Democrats rode their polling advantage in health care to a blue wave victory in the midterm elections in 2018, flipping 41 seats in the House of Representatives and returning the speaker’s gavel to Nancy Pelosi. Senate Republicans risk succumbing to the same fate this year unless they coalesce around meaningful and popular health care reform to help Americans contend with crushing health care costs.

Republicans have no shortage of

The Latest: Senate panel schedules 1st Barrett vote Thursday

October 13, 2020

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WASHINGTON — The Latest on the Senate confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett (all times local):

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The Senate Judiciary Committee has scheduled a vote to approve Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court — before her confirmation hearings have even ended.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham scheduled a committee vote for 9 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 15, the morning of the last day of hearings. Barrett’s nomination is expected to be brought up for a vote at that meeting and then delayed for a week, per committee rules.

If that happens as expected, the GOP-led committee would then vote to approve her nomination Thursday, Oct. 22. That would set up a final confirmation vote on the Senate floor the week of Oct. 26.

Republicans are moving quickly to confirm Barrett before the presidential election Nov. 3. Unless circumstances change, Republicans are expected to

Senate panel schedules 1st Barrett vote Thursday

October 12, 2020

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the Senate confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett (all times local):

a person sitting at a table: Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett speaks during a confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Monday, Oct. 12, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Pool)

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Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett speaks during a confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Monday, Oct. 12, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Pool)

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The Senate Judiciary Committee has scheduled a vote to approve Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court — before her confirmation hearings have even ended.

If that happens as expected, the GOP-led committee would then vote to approve her nomination Thursday, Oct. 22. That would

Supreme Court hearings today: Amy Coney Barrett faces Senate Judiciary Committee amid COVID-19 pandemic

October 12, 2020

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WASHINGTON — Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett declared Monday that Americans “deserve an independent Supreme Court that interprets our Constitution and laws as they are written,” encapsulating her conservative approach to the law that has Republicans excited about the prospect of her taking the place of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before Election Day.

Barrett spoke about her judicial philosophy, her experience and her large family at the end of the first day of her fast-tracked confirmation hearings that Senate Democrats are using to try and brand her a threat to Americans’ health care during the coronavirus pandemic.

After sitting in silence through nearly four hours of opening statements from members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, the 48-year-old federal appeals court judge laid out her approach to the bench, which she has likened to that of her conservative mentor, the late Justice Antonin Scalia.

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Claims by McSally and Kelly in the Arizona U.S. Senate debate

October 7, 2020

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Republican Sen. Martha McSally and Democratic challenger Mark Kelly met in Phoenix for their first and only debate Tuesday evening, sparring for nearly 90 minutes over health care, immigration and other hot-button issues.

Kelly criticized McSally’s record at every turn, saying she’d jeopardized the health of Arizonans with preexisting conditions and left unemployed workers hanging during the COVID-19 pandemic.

McSally, for her part, endeavored to paint Kelly as a radical leftist with ties to China, questioning his business dealings and slamming him as weak on border security.

But, how accurate were their claims?

Here’s a closer look at what each candidate said Tuesday, with analysis from The Arizona Republic.

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The claim: McSally said Kelly “sold out to China in multiple business arrangements on his path to get rich quick.” She said she is “standing up to China” while

CytRx Highlights Use of Licensed Drug Aldoxorubicin in Treatment of Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s Pancreatic Cancer

October 7, 2020

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Reid’s Stage IV Pancreatic Cancer is Reportedly in “Complete Remission” After Combination Immunotherapy That Included NantKwest’s PD-L1 t-haNK, ImmunityBio’s N-803 and Aldoxorubicin

ImmunityBio and NantKwest Announced in May 2020 That They Planned to Commence a Randomized Phase 2 Study of This Experimental Treatment for Pancreatic Cancer

CytRx Corporation (OTCQB: CYTR) (“CytRx” or the “Company”), a specialized biopharmaceutical company focused on research and development for the oncology and neurodegenerative disease categories, today highlighted the use of its licensed drug – aldoxorubicin – in the combination immunotherapy used by ImmunityBio, Inc. and NantKwest, Inc. to treat former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s stage IV pancreatic cancer. It was widely reported in June 2020 that former Senator Reid described himself as being in “complete remission” after receiving experimental treatment pioneered by the Chief Executive Officer of ImmunityBio and NantKwest.¹

Earlier this year, CytRx highlighted that ImmunityBio and NantKwest announced the initiation of

Virginia Senate debate sees Warner, Gade clash on Trump, race, health care

October 4, 2020

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Democratic incumbent U.S. Sen. Mark Warner and his Republican challenger shared the debate stage Saturday night in their second meeting ahead of Election Day in Norfolk, Va.

Warner and Republican challenger Daniel Gade, a wounded Army veteran turned college professor, sparred over the economy, health care, coronavirus relief, and other issues at Norfolk State University, a historically Black university (HBCU). It was the first U.S. Senate debate hosted at the 85-year-old institution.

Many of the questions asked of the two White candidates involved racial disparities.

Early on, they were asked about President Trump’s comments on a deadly, racially charged Charlottesville incident in 2017 and his handling of a similar question during Tuesday’s presidential debate in Cleveland.

“The president badly fumbled that question … and he badly fumbled it in the Charlottesville case as well,” Gade said. “I disavow racism, I disavow white supremacy, and it has no place in our

Senate Democrats Call On Congress To Fix Racial Disparities In Health Care

October 1, 2020

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The disproportionate harm people of color have suffered during the COVID-19 pandemic serves as an “appalling reminder of the deep inequities” of the American health care system and demands Congressional remedies, according to a new Senate committee report.

The report cites research showing that Black people are dying from COVID-19 at 3.4 times the rate of white people, when adjusted for age. It notes that COVID-19 accounts for 1 in 5 deaths among Latinos. And American Indian or Alaska Native patients are hospitalized at more than four times the rate of white people, according to the analysis undertaken by Democrats on the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP).

The report identifies steps Congress can take to address the lopsided harm, including focusing relief spending and pandemic-related public health initiatives on Black, Latino and Native Americans.

“The pandemic has just

Ohio Senate passes bill to limit orders issued by Ohio Department of Health

September 30, 2020

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The Ohio Senate has passed a bill to limit the scope of the Ohio Department of Health’s orders during the COVID-19 pandemic.Senate President Larry Obhof announced Wednesday that the Senate has passed Senate Bill 311, which establishes “common-sense limitations” on the Ohio Department of Health’s “ability to issue mandatory quarantine or isolation orders during crises,” according to a release from the Ohio Senate.“Senate Bill 311 restores the proper balance between the legislature and the executive branch,” said Obhof, who co-sponsored the bill. “We have seen too many decisions being made by an administrative agency rather than by the Legislature.” The bill would prohibit mandatory statewide quarantine orders, such as stay-at-home orders, for those who have not been directly exposed to COVID-19. Quarantine orders would still apply for those who are sick or have been directly exposed.“This bill clarifies what the intent of the legislature has long been: quarantine and isolation … Read More