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Medicare Releases 1/4/2008 BECERRA-AUTHORED PROVISION WILL PROTECT GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION PROGRAM AT MLK HOSPITAL WASHINGTON, D.C. – The spending bill for fiscal year 2008 signed into law by President Bush December 26, 2007, included a provision that protects the Medicare-funded graduate medical education residency positions allotted to Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital. This will ensure that any future...   12/6/2007 NEW MEDPAC RULING TAKES A PAGE FROM BECERRA-WRITTEN LEGISLATION WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Medicare Payment Advisory Committee (MedPAC), an independent federal body established to advise...   7/26/2007 REP. BECERRA ON THE SCHIP- AND MEDICARE-ENHANCING CHAMP ACT WASHINGTON, D.C. – Later today, the House Ways and Means Committee will mark up H.R. 3162, the “Children’s Health and Medicare Protection Act,” comprehensive legislation that both reauthorizes the State Children’s Health Insurance Program for another five years and makes...   6/7/2007 REP. BECERRA JOINS HOUSE IN SENDING LIFE SAVING STEM CELL RESEARCH BILL TO THE PRESIDENT WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the House of Representatives passed S. 5, the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act, with a...   2/9/2007 REPS. BECERRA & WELDON INTRODUCE BILL TO BAN THE PRACTICE OF GENE PATENTING WASHINGTON, D.C. – Representative Xavier Becerra (CA-31), Assistant to the Speaker and the only congressional member from Southern...   2/9/2007 REPS. BECERRA, BLUNT, ENGLISH, PICKERING & ROSS INTRODUCE LEGISLATION TO GIVE SENIORS BETTER ACCESS TO REHABILITATION SERVICES WASHINGTON, D.C. – Last week, Assistant to the Speaker Xavier Becerra (CA-31), Minority Whip Roy Blunt (MO-7), Reps. Phil English (PA-3), Chip Pickering (MS-3) and Mike Ross (AR-4) introduced H.R. 748, the Medicare Access to Rehabilitation Services Act of 2007, legislation that would repeal the arbitrary...   1/12/2007 HOUSE VOTES TO REQUIRE MEDICARE TO NEGOTIATE LOWER DRUG PRICES WASHINGTON, D.C. – The House of Representatives today passed H.R. 4, the Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation Act...   4/27/2006 NEW CMS RULING ON FORMULARY GUIDELINES TAKES A PAGE FROM FEINSTEIN-BECERRA LEGISLATION WASHINGTON, D.C. – Representative Xavier Becerra (CA-31), author of H.R. 5102, the Medicare Drug Formulary Protection Act, and the only congressional member from Southern California on the House Committee on Ways and Means, issued the following statement today upon learning of the new Centers for Medicare...   4/5/2006 REP. BECERRA INTRODUCES SENSIBLE FIX TO MEDICARE PRESCRIPTION DRUG PROGRAM WASHINGTON, D.C. – Representative Xavier Becerra (CA-31), the only congressional member from Southern California on the...   1/23/2004 PRESIDENT BUSH, CONGRESSIONAL GOP FAIL AMERICA ON HEALTHCARE - TIME FOR A NEW AGENDA WASHINGTON, D.C. - Following in the footsteps of former President Bill Clinton and this year's keynote, Senator Ted Kennedy, Representative Xavier Becerra (CA - 31) laid out his vision of the healthcare challenges and opportunities in the year ahead yesterday at the 2004 Families USA Health Action Conference....   11/22/2003 WAYS AND MEANS LAWMAKER DISCUSSES FLAWED PRESCRIPTION DRUG BILL IN WEEKLY DEMOCRATIC HISPANIC RADIO ADDRESS WASHINGTON D.C. - Following this morning’s weekly presidential radio address, Representative Xavier Becerra (CA – 31), the only congressional member from Southern California who is a member of the House Committee on Ways and Means, delivered the Democratic radio response in Spanish. Below is an English...   6/26/2003 'MAY OUR SENIORS FORGIVE THIS HOUSE FOR WHAT WE ARE ABOUT TO DO' WASHINGTON, D.C. - Later today, the House of Representatives will take up H.R. 1, the Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act of 2003. The bill...   6/18/2003 WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE SENDS ‘CALLOUS’ MEDICARE BILL TO THE FLOOR WASHINGTON, D.C. – Representative Xavier Becerra (CA – 31), the only congressional member from Southern California who is on the House Committee on Ways and Means, voted last night against sending H.R. 2473, the Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act of 2003, to the House Floor. The bill,...   6/25/2002 REP. BECERRA FIGHTS FOR A REAL PRESCRIPTION DRUG PLAN UNDER MEDICARE WASHINGTON, D.C. - The United States House of Representatives is expected to take up the Medicare Modernization And Prescription Drug Act (H.R. 4954) later...   Washington, D.C. 1119 Longworth House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 tel 202.225.6235 Los Angeles 1910 Sunset Blvd., Suite 810 Los Angeles, CA 90026 tel 213.483.1425  Home | About Xavier | Issues | Constituent Services | District Page | News | Photos | Students | Contact Xavier   Home | The Becerra Bulletin | Contact Us | Privacy Statement