Today, Congresswomen Jaime Herrera Beutler (WA-03) and Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-40), the founding Co-Chairs of the Congressional Caucus on Maternity Care and members of the Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Subcommittee, celebrated the inclusion of key Maternity Care Caucus priorities in H.R. 7617, the FY 2021 domestic appropriations bill which includes funding for the Department of Health and Human Services. The congresswomen successfully advocated for provisions in this bill to promote mater...
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As a young mom and a lawmaker, I often consider the intersection of public policy and family health. It’s this experience that has spurred me to work hard on policy focused on improving health care for mothers—whether it’s keeping them safe during pregnancy, expanding access to maternal telehealth services or simply allowing mothers to carry breast milk through airport security. These are issues that matter to everyone.
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Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler applauded the advancement of two bipartisan bills she’s co-sponsoring to improve maternal health care and reduce maternal mortality rates. The bills, which were approved by the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee this week, build upon Herrera Beutler’s bipartisan Preventing Maternal Deaths Act that was signed into law last year.
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Today, the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee’s Health Subcommittee advanced bipartisan legislation aimed at reducing and ending America’s growing maternal mortality crisis. U.S. Representatives Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA), Robin Kelly (D-IL), Michael Burgess, MD (R-TX), Buddy Carter (R-GA), Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) and Lauren Underwood (D-IL) cosponsored H.R. 4996, the Helping Medicaid Offer Maternity Services (MOMS) Act of 2019.
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Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler applauded the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) announcement that it is funding the first round of grants to support 25 states’ efforts to combat maternal mortality. The funding was made possible after Herrera Beutler’s bipartisan bill to prevent maternal deaths was signed into law last year.
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Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler (WA-03), Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-40), Congressman Mike Simpson (ID-02) and House Democratic Caucus Vice Chair Katherine Clark (MA-05) celebrated the U.S. House’s passage last night of the Newborn Screening Saves Lives Reauthorization Act, H.R. 2507, a bill to eliminate preventable newborn deaths and severe disabilities through increased use of comprehensive and standardized newborn screening tests.
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U.S. Representatives Jaime Herrera Beutler (WA-03) and Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-40), Co-Founders of the Congressional Caucus on Maternity Care, yesterday introduced the Midwives for Maximizing Optimal Maternity Services Act. The Midwives for MOMS Act will address the growing maternity care provider shortage by establishing two new funding streams for midwifery education.
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America is a leader in many respects, but there is an alarming exception: We are the only industrialized nation on earth where the rate of mothers dying before, during and after childbirth is growing. As a citizen, legislator and expectant mother myself, I refuse to sit idly by while we lose more women each year.
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U.S. Representative Jaime Herrera Beutler’s bipartisan bill to prevent maternal deaths is heading to the president’s desk to become law after it passed the U.S. Senate last night.
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U.S. Representative Jaime Herrera Beutler shared today that the Lugar Center and Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy’s Bipartisan Index ranked her as the 15th most bipartisan member of the U.S. House out of 438 members.
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