Health Care

Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher Reintroduces Legislation To Ban Hazardous Chemicals from Beauty and Personal Care Products

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Toxic Free Beauty Act

Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) and Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (IL-09) reintroduced the Toxic-Free Beauty Act, H.R. 3619, which prohibits the use of certain hazardous chemicals from personal and professional care, beauty, and salon products sold in the United States.  Some of the chemicals used to create personal and professional care, beauty, and salon products…

Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher Introduces Legislation To Expand Medicaid, Close Coverage Gap

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ACCESS Act

Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) introduced the Affordable Care Coverage Expansion and Support for States (ACCESS) Act to establish a program at the Department of Health and Human Services to create a federal Medicaid program for adults in the coverage gap in non-expansion states, like Texas.  “Texas is home to world-leading, innovative health care…

Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher Introduces Bipartisan Legislation To Renew Federal Funding for Community Health Centers

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Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07), Congressman John Joyce, M.D. (PA-13), Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE-AL) and Congresswoman Elise Stefanik (NY-21) introduced the Strengthening Community Care Act of 2023, H.R. 2559, to reauthorize federal funding for Community Health Centers and the National Health Service Corps through 2028.  Without passing reauthorization…

Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher on Texas Judge’s Ruling Banning Medication Abortion

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Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) released the following statement after Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk of the Northern District of Texas released a decision in Alliance Defending Freedom v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration issuing a preliminary injunction that stays the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) approval of medication for the termination of…

Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher Leads Bipartisan Effort To Fund Program To Integrate Mental Health Care in Primary Care Settings

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Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) and Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-01) led 19 of their colleagues in sending a bipartisan letter to House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education & Related Agencies leadership.  In the letter, the lawmakers made the case for including $60 million for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services…

Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher Delivers $1 Million for Program To Strengthen Harris County’s Safety Net System

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3.16 ACCESS Harris Press Conference

Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) held a press conference to highlight $1,000,000 in federal funding that she secured through congressional appropriations for Harris County Public Health’s (HCPH) Accessing Coordinated Care and Empowering Self Sufficiency (ACCESS) program.  Harris County Precinct 1 Commissioner Rodney Ellis; Harris County Precinct 4 Commissioner Lesley…

Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher Leads Effort with Democratic Colleagues To Protect Families from Losing Health Insurance

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Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07), Congressman Darren Soto (FL-09), Congresswoman Kathy Castor (FL-14), Congressman Marc Veasey (TX-33), and Congressman Maxwell Frost (FL-10) led a letter with their colleagues to President Biden and to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra urging HHS to open a special enrollment period for Medicaid and…

Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher Votes Against Legislation Undermining Provision of Reproductive Health Care

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Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) voted against two pieces of legislation that undermine access to reproductive health care, H.R. 26 and H.Con.Res. 3. “I continue to be disappointed by the disingenuous and dangerous legislation that the new Republican majority has chosen to begin this Congress, especially today’s thinly veiled efforts to criminalize access to reproductive…

From Mental Health Care to Infrastructure, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher Delivers for Texas’ Seventh Congressional District Priorities

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Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) voted for the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, a bipartisan government funding bill that funds essential programs, addresses many of the challenges our country faces, and provides more than $31.1 million for fifteen local projects that Congresswoman Fletcher requested through the Community Funded Projects process.  The…

Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher’s Bipartisan Bill To Improve and Develop Pediatric Medical Devices Passes Congress

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Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher’s (TX-07) and Congressman Gus Bilirakis’ (FL-12) bipartisan bill to improve and develop pediatric medical devices by reauthorizing the Pediatric Device Consortia (PDC) grant program and allowing profits for certain Humanitarian Device Exemption (HDE) devices, passed the House of Representatives for a second time.  The bill was included in a…