Washington, D.C. – Congressman Eliot L. Engel (NY-16) and Congressman Steve Stivers (OH-15) introduced the Quality Care for Moms and Babies Act, a bill aimed at measuring and evaluating Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program’s (CHIP) performances in caring for our mothers and babies. The bill would also facilitate the development of the best practices and benchmarks needed to make such assessments.
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Washington, DC - Today, United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) joined Representatives Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) and Steve Stivers (R-Ohio) to introduce the Reducing Unused Medications Act. The bill would allow prescriptions for opioid medications to be partially filled by pharmacists at the request of patients or doctors, reducing the number of unused painkillers. More than 70 percent of adults who misuse prescription opioids get them from friends or relatives, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
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Today, the U.S. House of Representatives approved H.R. 3442, the Debt Management and Fiscal Responsibility Act, which included an amendment introduced by Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA), Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), Rep. Steve Stivers (R-OH), and Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-AL). The Debt Management and Fiscal Responsibility Act would require the Secretary of the Treasury to appear before Congress and submit a report on the general status of the nation’s debt and solutions to control the national debt in advance of any request to raise the debt ceiling. The amendment by Reps. Newhouse, Goodlatte, Stivers, and Byrne directs the Secretary of the Treasury to explain in the report whether the President recommends that Congress adopt a balanced budget amendment to control the accumulation of future debt.
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WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the Veterans Dog Training Therapy Act, sponsored by Congressman Steve Stivers (R – OH) and Congressman Tim Walz (D – MN), passed the House of Representatives as part of a larger veterans health services bill. This legislation would establish a therapeutic dog training and handling pilot program for veterans struggling with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
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WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Stivers (R – OH) invites high school students from Ohio’s 15th Congressional District to participate in the 2016 Congressional Art Competition.
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Regarding today’s announcement that FFP New Hydro LLC can move forward with four hydropower projects on the Muskingum River, including the Malta Lock & Dam Water Power Project and the Rokeby Lock & Dam Water Power Project, all of the following may be attributed to Congressman Steve Stivers (R-OH):
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"North Korea has shown that not every country has peaceful nuclear ambitions. The President and Secretary of State are under the false assumption that they have secured 'peace for our time' with their Iran deal, when in reality they have done quite the opposite."
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WASHINGTON, DC - As the national debt tops $18.8 trillion, Representative Steve Stivers (R-OH) and Representative Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) today introduced House Joint Resolution 81, a bipartisan constitutional amendment which would restrict the federal government from spending more than it receives.
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