Last week, Congressman Mike Lawler joined a bipartisan group of 32 members from both the Democratic and Republican parties in the House of Representatives to urge Senate leaders to include House members in negotiations on health care policy. The group sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, requesting participation ahead of a December vote addressing the expiration of Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium tax credits.
The lawmakers wrote, “Bipartisan engagement across both chambers will be essential to crafting a health care proposal that can pass and be signed into law. Families nationwide who rely on the expiring ACA premium tax credits are facing drastic spikes to their health insurance costs. Millions will lose their health care coverage because they will no longer be able to afford it.”
The letter was led by Representatives Josh Gottheimer (NJ-5), Jen Kiggans (VA-2), Juan Ciscomani (AZ-6), and Adam Gray (CA-13). Additional signatories included Maggie Goodlander (NH-2), Jeff Van Drew (NJ-2), Susie Lee (NV-3), Don Bacon (NE-2), Ed Case (HI-1), Greg Landsman (OH-1), Jeff Hurd (CO-3), Darren Soto (FL-9), Rob Bresnahan, Jr. (PA-8), Tom Barrett (MI-7), Debbie Dingell (MI-6), Tom Kean, Jr. (NJ-7), Jimmy Panetta (CA-19), Ryan Mackenzie (PA-7), Henry Cuellar (TX-28), Monica De La Cruz (TX-15), George Whitesides (CA-27), Maria Elvira Salazar (FL-27), Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34), Donald Davis (NC-1), Scott Peters (CA-50), Jared Moskowitz (FL-23), Josh Riley (NY-19), Laura Gillen (NY-4), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA–03), Carlos Gimenez (FL–28) and Emilia Sykes (OH–13).
Congressman Lawler represents New York’s 17th Congressional District, which includes all or parts of Rockland, Putnam, Dutchess, and Westchester Counties north of New York City. He has been recognized as one of the most bipartisan members of Congress and was rated as the most effective freshman lawmaker in the 118th Congress, ranking eighth overall among his peers.
