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Representatives Ami Bera, M.D. (CA-07), Larry Bucshon, M.D. (IN-08), Kim Schrier, M.D. (WA-08), Michael Burgess, M.D. (TX-26), Earl Blumenauer (OR-03), Brad Wenstrup, D.P.M. (OH-02), Bradley Schneider (IL-10), and Mariannette Miller-Meeks, M.D. (IA-02) are requesting feedback from health care providers, advocacy organizations, health economists, health finance experts, and others on actions Congress should take to stabilize the Medicare payment system, without dramatic increases in Medicare spending, while ensuring successful value-based care incentives are in place.

Representative Ami Bera, M.D. (CA-07) today voted for the Inflation Reduction Act, comprehensive legislation to lower costs for Sacramento County families and small businesses, reduce health care and prescription drug costs, and combat climate change.

Representatives Ami Bera, M.D. (D-CA) and María Elvira Salazar (R-FL) today introduced the End Tuberculosis Now Act of 2022 to strengthen U.S. efforts to eliminate tuberculosis (TB) worldwide.

Representative Ami Bera, M.D. (CA-07), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, Central Asia, and Nonproliferation, today chaired a Subcommittee hearing on countering gray zone coercion in the Indo-Pacific.

Representative Ami Bera (D-CA), Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, Central Asia, and Nonproliferation, today led 12 bipartisan Members of Congress in a letter to Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young expressing support for the Office of Management and Budget's efforts to continue U.S. Postal Service servicing to the Freely Associate States (FAS)—the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Palau, and the Federated States of Micronesia—as a part of the wider negotiations to renew the Compacts of Free Association (COFA, or Compacts).  

Today, Representatives Ami Bera, M.D. (D-CA), Suzan DelBene (D-WA), Darin LaHood (R-IL), and Steve Chabot (R-OH) introduced a bipartisan, bicameral resolution outlining the importance of the U.S. digital economy and greater U.S. leadership on digital trade negotiations with like-minded countries.

Representative Ami Bera, M.D. (CA-07) today voted to pass for the Creating Helpful Incentives for the Production of Semiconductors for America (CHIPS) and Science Act, bipartisan legislation to strengthen American semiconductor manufacturing, lower costs for American consumers, and turbocharge American science and technology innovation.

The CHIPS and Science Act passed the House of Representatives today with bipartisan support and now heads to the President's desk to be signed into law.