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Guthrie and Buchanan: More choice, lower costs, American-made medicines and supplies

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – As Democrats continue pursuing a Washington-knows-best approach and giving more control to unelected bureaucrats to help fix our broken health care system, Congressman Brett Guthrie (KY-02) and Congressman Vern Buchanan (FL-16) are co-leading House Republicans’ Healthy Future Task Force to develop targeted solutions to the most pressing issues in health care. Guthrie…

Guthrie Leads Letter Criticizing President Biden’s Misguided Approach to Addressing Deadly Fentanyl

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WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congressman Brett Guthrie (KY-02), who serves as the Republican Leader of the Energy and Commerce Committee’s Health Subcommittee, led a letter with House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-05) and 16 other Republican colleagues on the Energy and Commerce Committee to President Joe Biden. In the letter, Members share serious…

Guthrie Introduces Bill to Help Get Treatments to Patients More Quickly

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Brett Guthrie, who is the Republican Leader of the Energy and Commerce Committee’s Health Subcommittee, introduced the Pre-approval Information Exchange Act, a bill to help patients gain access to treatments and medical devices more quickly. “We should be doing all we can to get treatments to patients as quickly and as safely as possible. That’s why I’m…

Guthrie, E&C Republican Leaders Launch Probe into Attempts by NIH’s Fauci and Collins to Suppress Debate and Information on COVID-19’s Origins

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Republican Leader Morgan Griffith (R-VA) sent letters to National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director Dr. Anthony Fauci and former National…

Guthrie Calls for Democrats to Work with Republicans on Combating Deadly Fentanyl Analogues

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Brett Guthrie (KY-02), who serves at the top Republican of the Energy and Commerce Committee’s Health Subcommittee, called for Democrats to work with Republicans on addressing illicit fentanyl-related substances, also known as fentanyl analogues, at a House Republican Leadership Stakeout press conference yesterday with House Republican Chairwoman Elise…

Guthrie Pushes to Keep Ban on Fentanyl-Related Substances

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Brett Guthrie (KY-02) spoke on the House floor yesterday in support of the HALT Fentanyl Act. Guthrie is an original cosponsor of the HALT Fentanyl Act, which would permanently extend the class-wide scheduling of illicit fentanyl-related substances, also known as fentanyl analogues, and provide a streamlined process for researching possible clinical uses…

Guthrie, E&C Republican Leaders Question HHS Sec. Becerra on Being MIA for COVID-19 Response

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WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Republican Leader Morgan Griffith (R-VA) sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra on his lack of leadership during a public health…

Guthrie Leads Bipartisan Letter to Protect Popular Medicare Advantage Program

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WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congressman Brett Guthrie (KY-02), along with Representatives Tony Cárdenas (CA-29), Mike Kelly (PA-16), and Earl Blumenauer (OR-03), led a letter with 342 other bipartisan Members of Congress to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure to express their strong support for the Medicare Advantage program, which provides…

Guthrie: President Biden deserves an ‘F’ for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Brett Guthrie (KY-02), who serves as the top Republican of the Energy and Commerce Committee’s Health Subcommittee, released the following statement on President Biden’s year of mishandling the COVID-19 pandemic. “President Trump had to start from scratch to fight COVID-19. Last year President Trump gifted President Biden Operation Warp Speed, which…

Guthrie Responds to Supreme Court Rulings on President Biden’s Overreaching Vaccine Mandates

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WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congressman Brett Guthrie (KY-02) released the following statement after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on President Biden’s vaccine mandates on health care workers and workers at private businesses with 100 employees or more.  “I’m happy to see the Supreme Court strike down President Biden’s private employer vaccine mandate that would have impacted 84 million…