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West Virginia Power officials remain hopeful that the organization will continue to be an affiliated part of Minor League Baseball, as the league’s Professional Baseball Agreement with Major League Baseball expires on Wednesday. Minor League Baseball (MiLB) and Major League Baseball (MLB) remain in negotiations on a restructuring of the minor league system that has long been reported to cut more than three dozen teams across the country from affiliated baseball. David Kahn, the West Virginia Pow... Read more

Today the Alliance for Physical Therapy Quality and Innovation (APTQI) applauded a bipartisan letter signed by more than 160 House lawmakers urging the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to take immediate actions to delay or mitigate significant Medicare cuts scheduled to go into effect on January 1, 2021, while allowing the scheduled E/M payment increases. Specifically, the lawmakers expressed deep concern that Medicare’s budget ... Read more

Rep. David McKinley (R-WV): “Judge Amy Coney Barrett is immensely qualified & will adhere strictly to the text of laws & the wording of the Constitution. She will bring bring extensive experience to the bench.” To read more click here. Read more

Members of Congress of both parties are requesting that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) take action to ensure that providers participating in the 340B drug pricing program can continue to receive discounted drug prices through the program. On September 17, 2020, a bipartisan group of 28 Senators wrote to HHS requesting action, following a similar request on September 14, 2020 from a bipartisan group of 243 members of the U.S. House of Representatives and a September 3, 2020 let... Read more

Today, Representative Gilbert R. Cisneros, Jr. (CA-39) praised the unanimous, bipartisan House passage of the bipartisan Strengthening America’s Strategic National Stockpile Act. Rep. Cisneros joined his Republican and Democratic House colleagues to introduce this legislative package, which would reduce America’s dependence on foreign sources of critical medical supplies the country needs to fight COVID-19 by making much-needed improvements and updates to America’s Strategic National Stockpile ... Read more

Senator Joe Manchin, Senator Shelley Moore Capito, and Congressman David McKinley are all members of the Caucus on the Deadliest Cancers, including pancreatic cancer. “We are very grateful to these three members of our Congressional Delegation for helping to garner additional resources to fight pancreatic cancer,” says Ms. Fetty-Santilli. “Congressman McKinley was instrumental in the United States House of Representatives approving $15 million to the Department of Defense’s Pancreatic Cancer Res... Read more

Lawmakers Seek $3 Billion for NSF: Reps. David McKinley (R-W.Va.) and G.K Butterfield (D-N.C.) urged colleagues in a letter yesterday to support providing the National Science Foundation $3 billion in emergency aid. The organization conducts research, including for Covid-19. “While our nation’s scientists and research institutions have risen to the challenge of the pandemic, they are facing enormous strains to their operations and infrastructure,” the lawmakers wrote. Read the letter here. To re... Read more

U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), along with U.S. Representatives David McKinley (R-W.Va.-1), Alex Mooney (R-W.Va.-2), and Carol Miller (R-W.Va.-3) sent a letter to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma calling for immediate action to address a decision by CMS that could negatively affect access to treatment for opioid addiction. This action comes ... Read more

Friday afternoon, U.S. Rep. David McKinley met with WV News representatives to discuss the federal government’s ongoing response to the COVID-19 pandemic. McKinley said that while the pandemic is still very much an ongoing threat, he’s encouraged by the action taken both by legislators and the citizens of the country as a whole over the past few months. “I’d like to say we’re winning the battle,” McKinley said. “I’m much more comfortable dealing with it today than I was three months ago. There w... Read more

When a conservative congressman from a coal-producing state says that climate change is the biggest challenge of our lives, it grabs your attention. That this Republican congressman had paired up with a West Coast Democrat counterpart in something resembling bipartisan cooperation on climate change legislation, is even more striking. Does it raise the odds of something actually getting done? The approach presented in a new “discussion draft” of the presumptive McKinley-Schrader bill is both coll... Read more