{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.toomey.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/advisory-toomey-and-stabenow-to-lead-senate-hearing-examining-the-alzheimers-crisis", "Advisory: Toomey and Stabenow to Lead Senate Hearing Examining the Alzheimers Crisis", "2020-12-15", "2020", "2020-12", "Republican", "House", "PA", "Patrick Toomey", "T000461", "www.toomey.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Washington, D.C. U.S. Senator Pat\r\nToomey (R-Pa.), the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee Subcommittee on\r\nHealth Care, will convene a hearing examining the testing and treatment for\r\nAlzheimer's disease and the fiscal implications of the disease on our federal\r\nhealthcare programs onWednesday, December 16that\r\n2:30 PM.  Last year, the Senate Finance Committee Subcommittee on Health\r\nCare held a hearing on thebarriers to treatment and care for Alzheimer's patients.\r\nChairman Toomey and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.)also sought inputfrom stakeholdersproviders,\r\nresearchers, patients, patient advocacy groups, states, and othersto\r\ninform the development of regulatory recommendations and potential future\r\nlegislation. The senatorssent a letter to the Administrationin\r\nOctober, requesting certain regulatory actions to improve care for Alzheimer's\r\npatients. What:Hearing: The Alzheimer's Crisis: Examining Testing and Treatment Pipelines and Fiscal Implications.  When:Wednesday, December 16that\r\n2:30 PM.  Witnesses:  Nikolay Dokholyan, Ph.D., M.S. G. Thomas Passananti, Professor and Vice Chair for Research Pennsylvania\r\nState College of Medicine, Hershey, Pa.  Randall\r\nJ. Bateman, M.D. Charles F. and Joanne Knight Distinguished Professor of Neurology,\r\nDirector, Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer's Network (DIAN), DIAN Trials Unit Washington\r\nUniversity School of Medicine, St. Louis, Mo.  Richard Mohs, Ph.D.\r\nChief Scientific Officer Global\r\nAlzheimer's Platform Foundation, Chicago, Ill.  Maria Carrillo, Ph.D. Chief\r\nScience Officer Alzheimer's\r\nAssociation, Chicago, Ill.", 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.toomey.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/advisory-toomey-and-stabenow-to-lead-senate-hearing-examining-the-alzheimers-crisis"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.2749440502375364, "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"}