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Washington, D.C.— Today, Congressman Tom Emmer (MN-06) wrote a letter to Acting Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Janet Woodcock expressing his concerns with a 2021 rule related to over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids.

“Low-cost care cannot be an excuse for low-quality care.” Emmer said. “Hearing loss is a serious medical condition, and insufficient or improper care can cause more harm than good.”

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Tom Emmer (MN-06) joined a letter led by Congressman Bryan Steil (WI-01) to President Biden urging the Administration to take immediate action to stem the fentanyl scourge coming from China and across the southern border, and support making fentanyl related substances Schedule 1 classification permanent.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Congressmen Tom Emmer (R-MN), David Trone (D-MD), Michael Turner (R-OH), and Paul Tonko (D-NY) introduced the Due Process Continuity of Care Act. This bill would amend the Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy (MIEP), which currently denies Medicaid coverage to all incarcerated individuals, to allow coverage for pre-trial detainees.

Washington, D.C.— Today, Congressman Emmer sent a letter urging Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona to clarify the Department of Education’s plan to safeguard student data privacy.

Emmer said “When our current student data privacy laws were written, concepts like online remote learning were unheard of. This has left children and their family’s data vulnerable, often without their knowledge.

Washington, D.C. - Congressman Tom Emmer (MN-06) joined his House Financial Services Committee colleague Patrick McHenry (NC-10) and original co-sponsors of the bipartisan Keep Innovation in America Act to send a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen ahead of the expected preliminary guidance on the new digital asset reporting requirements. The letter urges her to provide additional clarity to America’s innovators and entrepreneurs.

Otsego, M.N.— Today, Congressman Tom Emmer (MN-06) issued the following statement on the Department of Interior’s decision to cancel Twin Metals Minnesota’s long-held federal leases to mine in Minnesota’s Iron Range, which contains an estimated 8 billion tons of critical minerals.

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