{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.alexander.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ContentRecord_id=318aaebf-8698-4a25-983f-02f0bc1c7b84", "Alexander Highlights Senate Health, Education, and Labor Committee Accomplishments for this Congress", "2014-12-22", "2014", "2014-12", "Republican", "House", "TN", "Lamar Alexander", "A000360", "www.alexander.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "***\r\n\u201cThe Senate Health, Education, and Labor Committee has produced some of the most significant legislation of any Senate committee this year. In a dysfunctional Congress, among senators with profound ideological differences, our work shows what can happen when you focus on getting results on issues important to the American people.\" \u00a0\u2013Lamar Alexander\r\n\u00a0\r\nNASHVILLE, Dec. 22\u00a0\u2013 U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), the ranking Republican member on the Senate\u2019s Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions today highlighted the committee\u2019s accomplishments for this Congress\u2014including 25 bipartisan bills that have been signed into law:\u00a0\r\n\u201cThe Senate Health, Education, and Labor Committee has produced some of the most significant legislation of any Senate committee this year. In a dysfunctional Congress, among senators with profound ideological differences, our work shows what can happen when you focus on getting results on issues important to the American people. This legislation includes bills that help pay for child care for 1.5 million children; make loans cheaper, simpler, and more certain for more than 9 million students; and make safer prescription drugs for virtually every American.\u201d\r\n\u00a0\r\nThe full list of bipartisan bills passed is below:\r\nDrug Quality and Security Act (H.R. 3204), legislation that enacted a new model of oversight of sterile compounding pharmacies to make injections of compounded sterile drugs safer\u2014following the deadly meningitis outbreak of 2012.\r\n\u00a0\r\nChild Care and Development Block Grant Act of 2014 (S. 1086), legislation to expand access to and improve the quality of child care for the more than 1.5 million children and families.\u00a0\r\n\u00a0\r\nBipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act of 2013 (H.R. 1911), legislation that established a permanent, market-based plan to makes students\u2019 loans simpler, more certain\u2014and, in most cases, cheaper.\r\n\u00a0\r\nWorkforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (H.R. 803), legislation that updated and improved the nation\u2019s workforce development system, by simplifying the maze of programs, supporting state and local-decision making, and improving federal program accountability.\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \r\nPREEMIE Reauthorization Act (S. 252), legislation to reduce infant deaths and disabilities by expanding research, education, and intervention activities related to premature birth.\r\n\u00a0\r\nSunscreen Innovation Act (S. 2141), legislation to get safe sunscreen ingredients to Americans more quickly to help prevent skin cancer. \r\n\u00a0\r\nPandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization Act (H.R.307), legislation to strengthen America\u2019s preparedness for and ability to respond to medical and public health emergencies.\r\n\u00a0\r\nSchool Access to Emergency Epinephrine Act (H.R. 2094), legislation to encourage schools to maintain a supply of\u00a0epinephrine\u00a0injectors in a secure location that\u2019s easily accessible to a trained school personnel.\u00a0\r\n\u00a0\r\n\u00a0CHIMP Act Amendments of 2013 (S. 1561), legislation to ensure that the National Institutes of Health can continue to care for retired government-owned chimpanzees that are no longer needed for research.\r\n\u00a0\r\nNational Pediatric Research Network Act (S. 424), legislation to encourage collaboration among researchers and optimize pediatric research.\r\n\u00a0\r\nHIV Organ Policy Equity Act (S. 330), legislation to end the ban on research of organ transplantation from HIV-positive donors to HIV-positive recipients.\r\n\u00a0\r\nAnimal Drug and Animal Generic Drug User Fee Reauthorization Act (S. 622), reauthorization of programs that reduce the average waiting time for the Food and Drug Administration to approve generic animal drugs by 450 days and eliminated a backlog of applications.\r\n\u00a0\r\nPoison Center Network Act (H.R. 3527), legislation that reauthorized the poison control centers national toll-free number, national media campaign, and grant program.\r\n\u00a0\r\nStreamlining Claims Processing for Federal Contractor Employees Act (H.R. 2747), legislation that transfers authority from the Government Accountability Office to the Department of Labor for processing claims for wages due to laborers and mechanics hired by contractors on public works projects.\r\n\u00a0\r\nChildren\u2019s Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act (S. 1557), legislation to reauthorize the successful children\u2019s hospitals graduate medical education program that supports the training of pediatricians at children\u2019s hospitals in Tennessee and across the country.\r\n\u00a0\r\nCooperative and Small Employer Charity Pension Act (S. 1302), legislation to make it easier for charities and cooperatives to continue to offer pensions to their employees.\r\n\u00a0\r\nImproving Trauma Care Act of 2014 (H.R. 3548), legislation to update the federal definition of trauma to include burns\u2014more appropriately reflecting the relationship between burns and other traumatic injuries.\r\n\u00a0\r\nAutism Collaboration, Accountability, Research, Education and Support Act (Autism CARES Act) of 2014 (H.R. 4631), legislation to reauthorize the Combating Autism Act\u2014continuing research programs, education, early detection and intervention programs to aid the estimated one in 68 children affected by Autism.\r\n\u00a0\r\nEmergency Medical Services for Children Reauthorization Act of 2014 (S. 2154), legislation to improve emergency medical services for more than 600,000 Tennessee children who receive emergency medical care every year.\r\n\u00a0\r\nPaul D. Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Community Assistance, Research, and Education Amendments of 2013 (H.R. 594), legislation to revise the muscular dystrophy research program\u2014including expanding the range and forms of the disease included in the program.\r\n\u00a0\r\nTraumatic Brain Injury Reauthorization Act of 2014 (S. 2539), which reauthorizes certain programs relating to traumatic brain injury and to trauma research through FY2019.\r\n\u00a0\r\n\u00a0A bill to amend the Employment Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (S.2511, passed as part of H.R. 83), legislation to determine when a company needs to make greater pension payments to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation due to a cessation of operations.\r\n\u00a0\r\nAdding Ebola to the FDA Priority Review Voucher Program Act (S. 2917), legislation to spur the development of Ebola vaccines and drugs.\r\n\u00a0\r\nSudden Unexpected Death Data Enhancement and Awareness Act (H.R. 669), legislation to direct the secretary of Health and Human Services to continue data collection regarding\u00a0stillbirth, sudden\u00a0unexpected\u00a0infant\u00a0death, and\u00a0sudden\u00a0unexplained\u00a0death\u00a0in childhood\u2014including collaborating with states and experts\u2014to improve the quality and consistency of data collected after one of these\u00a0deaths.\r\n\u00a0\r\nNewborn Screening Saves Lives Reauthorization Act of 2013 (H.R. 1281), legislation to improve life-saving screenings for nearly 80,000 infants born in Tennessee every year\u2014as well as ensure that parents and doctors have the information they need to keep the newborns in their care as safe as possible.\r\n\u00a0\r\n# # #", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.alexander.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ContentRecord_id=318aaebf-8698-4a25-983f-02f0bc1c7b84"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.6044268850237131, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}