Oriana Gonzalez

1 week ago | notus.org | Oriana Gonzalez

Senators are eager for the Supreme Court to issue some clarity on whether lower courts can block policies nationwide. If they don’t get it as part of the current birthright citizenship case, some lawmakers hope to take action themselves. “if the Supreme Court won’t clarify it … then Congress ought to,” Sen. Josh Hawley, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, told NOTUS. “We ought to make clear that district courts cannot bind parties who are not in front of them.

2 weeks ago | notus.org | Oriana Gonzalez

House conservatives have been fighting for months for bigger spending cuts in the reconciliation bill. But there’s one thing they don’t want to touch, even if it likely increases the budget deficit: defunding Planned Parenthood. “We should defund Planned Parenthood,” said Rep. Chip Roy, who has been unwavering in his opposition to the bill.

2 weeks ago | notus.org | Oriana Gonzalez

The Domestic Policy Council delivered recommendations Monday to the White House on how to increase access to in vitro fertilization. What those recommendations are — and how President Donald Trump, the self-proclaimed “fertilization president,” plans to implement them — is still a mystery. White House officials are considering a host of options, according to Kaylen Silverberg, chair of Americans for IVF’s advisory board and an adviser to the Domestic Policy Council.

3 weeks ago | notus.org | Oriana Gonzalez

Senate Republican moderates Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins have already signaled their skepticism over aspects of the House’s reconciliation bill, but the inclusion of a measure to ban Planned Parenthood from receiving any sort of federal funds could further alienate the two key votes. The senators already indicated to NOTUS that they won’t allow the provision to make it into the Senate’s version of reconciliation without a fight.

3 weeks ago | notus.org | Oriana Gonzalez

Republicans on a key House panel shot down a measure that would have taken language to “defund” Planned Parenthood out of the reconciliation bill, but the two most politically vulnerable GOP members on the committee missed the vote entirely. During the marathon markup in the Energy and Commerce Committee, Democrats introduced amendments designed to get Republicans to take uncomfortable votes for attack ads down the road. Nearly all committee Republicans voted against an amendment brought by Rep.