Removing Waste and Protecting Medicare Act

Bill: 117-hr-6144
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Jason [R-MO-8]
Introduced: 2021-12-07 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Appropriations
Budget deficits and national debt
Budget process
Cancer
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Congressional oversight
Department of Agriculture
Department of Health and Human Services
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Food assistance and relief
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Income tax credits
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Medicare
Poverty and welfare assistance
Radiation
State and local finance
State and local government operations
Tax treatment of families

Summary:
action_date: 2021-12-07
text: 

Removing Waste and Protecting Medicare Act

 
This bill makes several budgetary changes, including (1) prohibiting sequestration orders in 2022, (2) rescinding certain COVID-19 state and local relief funds, and (3) extending certain adjustments under Medicare with respect to sequestration and payments under the physician fee schedule. It also modifies requirements relating to federal programs and benefits, such as permanently requiring taxpayers to include Social Security numbers on their tax returns in order to qualify for the child tax credit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-11-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.
action_date: 2022-01-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition, Oversight, and Department Operations.
action_date: 2021-12-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2021-12-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, Energy and Commerce, the Judiciary, Agriculture, and Oversight and Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2021-12-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, Energy and Commerce, the Judiciary, Agriculture, and Oversight and Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2021-12-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, Energy and Commerce, the Judiciary, Agriculture, and Oversight and Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2021-12-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, Energy and Commerce, the Judiciary, Agriculture, and Oversight and Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2021-12-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, Energy and Commerce, the Judiciary, Agriculture, and Oversight and Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2021-12-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, Energy and Commerce, the Judiciary, Agriculture, and Oversight and Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2021-12-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-12-07
text: Introduced in House