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Over 25% of US Essential Medicines at 'Very High Risk' Due to Dependency on China

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Recent findings reveal a concerning dependency on foreign sources for key pharmaceutical ingredients critical to the United States' healthcare system, with a significant focus on China. This dependency places over a quarter of US-designated essential medicines at a 'very high risk,' sparking bipartisan efforts to address the nation's pharmaceutical supply chain…

Cost overruns, delays threaten US plan for new StratCom missiles based in Nebraska

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If all goes according to plan, 400 new, deadly and nuclear-tipped LGM-35A Sentinel missiles will be lowered into refurbished silos scattered across western Nebraska and four other states beginning in 2029. They will replace a similar number of now-outmoded Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles that have been poised in those same silos for the past 50…

Omaha’s Eppley Airfield receiving $7 million for international arrivals facility

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International non-stop flights are likely on the way to Omaha’s Eppley Airfield, thanks to additional funding from Congress. U.S. Sen. Deb Fischer and Congressman Don Bacon notified the Omaha Airport Authority Wednesday that Eppley will receive $7 million in community project funding with the passage of this year’s Consolidated Appropriations…

Proposal for ‘GI Bill for Child Care’ Aims to Boost Unemployed Military Spouses

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Unemployed military spouses could have child care fully paid for during their job search under a proposal being crafted by a leading lawmaker. Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, D-Pa., the ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee's military quality-of-life panel, is advocating for what she has termed a "GI Bill for child care." The proposal would provide grants of up to…

Home Democrats attempt to drive flooring vote on overseas assist for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan

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Home Democrats try to drive a flooring vote on a bipartisan Senate invoice that would supply assist to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, since Home Republican leaders have been resisting strain to take up the laws. https://pressnewsagency.org/home-democrats-attempt-to-drive-flooring-vote-on-overseas-assist-for-ukraine-israel-taiwan/

China now leads world in nuclear and conventional hypersonic missiles, US intelligence warns

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China now has the world’s largest arsenal of hypersonic missiles, missiles capable of striking U.S. targets with nuclear and conventional warheads, a U.S. intelligence analyst told Congress on Tuesday. Russia has also deployed three types of ultra-high-speed maneuvering weapons that can also be equipped with nuclear or conventional warheads and fired the first hypersonic weapon in combat…

New congressional caucus seeks to build support for NASA’s planetary science programs

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As NASA’s planetary science programs face reduced budgets this year and uncertain prospects for next year, advocates in Congress are banding together to build up support for them. Reps. Judy Chu (D-Calif.) and Don Bacon (R-Neb.) announced March 6 that they were restarting a Planetary Science Caucus in Congress, serving as its co-chairs, with more than a dozen other…

Aliens, killer asteroids and Mars: Lawmakers announce caucus focused on space and planetary science

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The bipartisan Planetary Science Caucus is being led by Rep. Judy Chu, D-Calif., and Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb. The group aims to advance policies and promote federal investment in space science, which the caucus said is “critical to our economy, national security, and American leadership in science and…

Exchange programs are the long game of investing in the best and brightest of a country

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Alexei Navalny first came to America, to Dallas, in 2005, hosted by Open World, a Congressional Office for International Leadership exchange program for emerging world leaders. Even then, in his late 20s, the passion and courage and conviction and charisma and inspiration that would later define Alexei Navalny to the world and ultimately doom him in his homeland were already…