119th Congress

NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA — Rep. Rob Bresnahan (R, PA-08) brought Dr. Mehmet Oz, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), to Scranton on December 5, there to meet with local health care leaders and to hear their needs and challenges. 

SCRANTON — U.S. Rep. Rob Bresnahan welcomed Mehmet Oz, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) administrator, to Scranton on Friday for a health care roundtable with local stakeholders and officials.

Prior to the roundtable, Bresnahan and Oz visited The Wright Center in Scranton to tour the facility and meet with staff and leadership.

U.S. Rep. Rob Bresnahan said Friday that he’s in favor of extending the Affordable Care Act enhanced tax credits, which are set to expire at the end of this year.

“I don't feel proper in ripping the rug out from underneath people that are already struggling economically and from an affordability perspective. I think we need to approach it twofold. I think we need to extend the subsidies for one year the way it is, also then we need to get to work and figure out a legislative, real solution, real reform,” Bresnahan said.

Republican House members have attempted five times under Speaker Mike Johnson’s leadership to bypass one of his biggest powers: choosing which bills should go for a vote.

Still, many of the Republicans who supported discharge petitions that force a vote say they’re not a rebuke of Johnson’s leadership.

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WILKES-BARRE — U.S. Rep. Rob Bresnahan Jr. on Wednesday announced his support for 50 health care bills directly in response to the specific needs and challenges brought forward by families across Northeast Pennsylvania.

To better understand these needs, Bresnahan, R-Dallas Township, said he has sat down to meet with hundreds of local stakeholders, from patients fighting cancer, to parents of children with rare diseases, to the doctors, nurses, and hospital workers who care for them on the front lines every day.