{"items":[{"commercecategory":{"primarypath":[],"categories":[]},"ispricevisible_detail":{"inpersonalizedcatalog":true,"bycurrentuserloginstatus":true},"custitem_ns_pr_item_attributes":"&nbsp;","custitem_ns_pr_rating_by_rate":"","ispurchasable_detail":{"inpersonalizedcatalog":true,"bystockavailability":true},"internalid":5251,"ispricevisible":true,"displayname":"Government Affairs Blog","storedisplayname2":"Government Affairs Blog","relateditemsdescription":"","urlcomponent":"government-affairs-blog","custitem_enable_reviews":false,"storedetaileddescription":"<p><img class=\"float-right\" src=\"/Images/category-images/advocacy/gov-affairs-blog.jpg\" alt=\"\" /></p><p>Blogs are written by Government Affairs Director <a href=\"mailto:dfarquhar@neha.org\">Doug Farquhar</a>.</p><h2>2024</h2><ul><li>May: <a href=\"fda-hill-day-24\">We Were Back on Capitol Hill Advocating for You</a></li><li>April: <a href=\"/cdc-vector-borne-lab-visit\">Our Visit to the CDC Vector-Borne Laboratory</a></li><li>April: <a href=\"/hill-day-24-blog\">State Voices Amplified During 2024 Hill Day</a></li><li>March: <a href=\"/biden-fy25-budget-proposal\">President Biden Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Proposal Released</a></li><li>March: <a href=\"/fy-24-funding\">Congress to Approve Fiscal Year 2024 Funding for Several Federal Agencies</a>Ìý</li><li>February: <a href=\"/federal-funding-congressional-update-24\">Federal Funding: Congressional Update</a></li><li>January: <a href=\"/2023-body-art-review\">2023 State Legislation on Body Art</a></li><li>January: <a href=\"/2023-year-review\">2023: Our Year in Review for Government Affairs</a></li></ul><h2>2023</h2><ul><li>December: <a href=\"/fy24-appropriations-update\">House and Senate Have Until January 19 to Finalize Fiscal Year 2024 Appropriations</a></li><li>October: <a href=\"/food-safety-legislation-update\">2023 Update on State Food Safety Legislation</a></li><li>October: <a href=\"our-story-to-tell\">Our Story to Tell</a></li><li>September: <a href=\"/sept-pahpra\">The Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization Act</a></li><li>August: <a href=\"/fda-human-foods-commissioner\">FDA Appoints Deputy Commissioner for Human Foods Program</a></li><li>August: <a href=\"/house-senate-fy-24-budget\">House and Senate Appropriators Remain Far Apart on Fiscal Year 2024 Budgets</a></li><li>July: <a href=\"/house-senate-fy-24-appropriations\">House and Senate Continue to Work on Fiscal Year 2024 Appropriations</a></li><li>June: <a href=\"/fy-24-appropriations-moving-forward\">Fiscal Year 2024 Appropriations Moving Forward, Albeit Slowly</a></li><li>June: <a href=\"/Fiscal-Responsibility-Act-2023\">Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023</a></li><li>May: <a href=\"/ia-sc-redesign\">Iowa and South Carolina Redesign Their Public Health Agencies</a></li><li>May: <a href=\"/may-fda-budget\">Fiscal Year 2024 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Bill</a></li><li>May: <a href=\"/dc-in-may\">We Were Back in Washington, DC, in Early May</a></li><li>May: <a href=\"/april-food-safety-advocacy\">We Advocate for Support of FDA Food Safety Efforts</a></li><li>April:Ìý<a href=\"/meeting-with-fda-commissioner\">Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏͼ Meets With the FDA Commissioner</a></li><li>March:Ìý<a href=\"/2023-hill-day\">Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏͼ in Washington, DC, 2023</a></li><li>February:Ìý<a href=\"/2022-gov-affairs-accomplishments\">Government Affairs Accomplishments in 2022</a></li></ul><h2>2022</h2><ul><li>December:Ìý<a href=\"/fy-2023-omnibus-appropriations-bill\">Fiscal Year 2023 Omnibus Appropriations Bill</a></li><li>December: <a href=\"/fy23-negotiations\">Congress in Negotiations to Finalize the Fiscal Year 2023 Appropriations</a></li><li>November: <a href=\"/midterm-results-22\">Results of the Midterm Elections on Environmental Health</a></li><li>November: <a href=\"/state-ballot-measures-eh\">State Ballot Measures on Environmental Health</a></li><li>September: <a href=\"/biden-environmental-justice\">The Biden Administration Tackles Environmental Justice</a></li><li>July: <a href=\"/food-safety-remains-top-gov-concern\">Food Safety Remains Top Government Concern</a></li><li>June: <a href=\"/accomplishments-so-far\">Accomplishments So Far</a></li><li>April: <a href=\"/wittman-visits-harris-teeter\">Congressperson Rob Wittman Visits Harris Teeter Store</a></li><li>March: <a href=\"/omnibus-spending-package-2022\">Congress Finally Enacts Omnibus Spending Package for Fiscal Year 2022</a></li><li>March: <a href=\"/washington-dc-2022\">Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏͼ in Washington, DC, 2022</a></li><li>January: <a href=\"/22-year-ahead\">The 2022 Year Ahead in Government Affairs</a></li><li>January: <a href=\"/2021-review\">The 2021 Year in Government Affairs</a></li></ul><h2>2021</h2><ul><li>November: <a href=\"/infrastructure-bill\">Congress Passes the $1.2 Trillion Infrastructure Bill</a></li><li>September: <a href=\"/2021-state-food-legislation\">Enacted State Legislation Regarding Food</a></li><li>August: <a href=\"/job-act\">The Senate Version of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Covers Environmental Health</a></li><li>July: <a href=\"/2021-appropriations\">Congressional House Appropriations Markup of the Labor-HHS-Education Budget Provides Significant Increases to the Nation's Public Health Infrastructure</a></li><li>June: <a href=\"/2021-legislation\">2021 State Enacted Legislation: Food, June 2021</a></li><li>June: <a href=\"/rescue-plan\">Biden-Harris Administration to Invest $7 Billion From American Rescue Plan to Hire and Train Public Health Workers in Response to COVID-19</a></li><li>May: <a href=\"/EH-workforce-act\">Congresswoman Lawrence Introduces the Environmental Health Workforce Act</a></li><li>April: <a href=\"/congress-visits\">Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏͼ Visits Congress Virtually</a></li><li>April: <a href=\"/jobs-plan\">The American Jobs Plan Could Provide Billions for the Environmental Health Workforce</a></li><li>March: <a href=\"/food-freedom-laws\">Laws to Exempt Retail Foods From State Oversight Are on the Rise</a></li><li>February: <a href=\"/ph-authority\">States Seek to Limit the Authority of Public Health</a></li><li>January: <a href=\"/federal-health-positions\">Biden Announces Nominees for Key Positions on Health and Science</a></li></ul><h2>2020</h2><ul><li>December: <a href=\"/fy2021-budget\">Fiscal Year 2021 Budget</a></li><li>December: <a href=\"/new-administration\">The Beginning of the Next Administration</a></li><li>November: <a href=\"/election-season\">The Beginning of the End of Election Season</a></li><li>October: <a href=\"/lead\">National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week Is October 25–31, 2020</a></li><li>September: <a href=\"/2020-appropriations\">Congress and Congressional Appropriations in the Final Weeks</a></li><li>September: <a href=\"/2020-state-food-laws\">State Food Safety Legislation Enacted in August 2020</a></li><li>August: <a href=\"/food-freedom-state\">The Food Freedom Movement: Laws in Maine, North Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming</a></li><li>August: <a href=\"/ph-covid19\">Public Health Authorities in the Time of COVID-19</a></li><li>July: <a href=\"/fy2021-federal-budget\">U.S. House of Representatives Adopt Budgets for FY 2021</a></li><li>June: <a href=\"/world-food-day\">2nd Annual World Food Day</a></li><li>June: <a href=\"/united-nations\">Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏͼ Advocates for the Environmental Health Profession to the United Nations</a></li><li>June: <a href=\"/eh-future\">Environmental Health Holds the Keys to Public Health's Future</a></li></ul>"}],"facets":[{"id":"category","values":[]},{"id":"commercecategoryname","values":[]},{"id":"custitem_rsm_sca_advocacy_type_facet","url":"custitem_rsm_sca_advocacy_type_facet","values":[]},{"id":"custitem_rsm_sca_air_quality_facet","url":"custitem_rsm_sca_air_quality_facet","values":[]},{"id":"custitem_rsm_sca_author_facet","url":"custitem_rsm_sca_author_facet","values":[]},{"id":"custitem_rsm_sca_blog_facet","url":"custitem_rsm_sca_blog_facet","values":[]},{"id":"custitem_rsm_sca_child_health_facet","url":"custitem_rsm_sca_child_health_facet","values":[]},{"id":"custitem_rsm_sca_climate_facet","url":"custitem_rsm_sca_climate_facet","values":[]},{"id":"custitem_rsm_sca_conference_facet","url":"custitem_rsm_sca_conference_facet","values":[]},{"id":"custitem_rsm_sca_credential_type_facet","url":"custitem_rsm_sca_credential_type_facet","values":[]},{"id":"custitem_rsm_sca_education_type_facet","url":"custitem_rsm_sca_education_type_facet","values":[]},{"id":"custitem_rsm_sca_food_safety_facet","url":"custitem_rsm_sca_food_safety_facet","values":[]},{"id":"custitem_rsm_sca_funding_facet","url":"custitem_rsm_sca_funding_facet","values":[]},{"id":"custitem_rsm_sca_healthy_homes_facet","url":"custitem_rsm_sca_healthy_homes_facet","values":[]},{"id":"custitem_rsm_sca_initiative_facet","url":"custitem_rsm_sca_initiative_facet","values":[]},{"id":"custitem_rsm_sca_journal_column_facet","url":"custitem_rsm_sca_journal_column_facet","values":[]},{"id":"custitem_rsm_sca_location_facet","url":"custitem_rsm_sca_location_facet","values":[]},{"id":"custitem_rsm_sca_month_facet","url":"custitem_rsm_sca_month_facet","values":[]},{"id":"custitem_rsm_sca_readiness_facet","url":"custitem_rsm_sca_readiness_facet","values":[]},{"id":"custitem_rsm_sca_resource_author_facet","url":"custitem_rsm_sca_resource_author_facet","values":[]},{"id":"custitem_rsm_sca_resource_type_facet","url":"custitem_rsm_sca_resource_type_facet","values":[]},{"id":"custitem_rsm_sca_water_quality_facet","url":"custitem_rsm_sca_water_quality_facet","values":[]},{"id":"custitem_rsm_sca_year_facet","url":"custitem_rsm_sca_year_facet","values":[]}],"corrections":[],"locale":{"country":"US","language":"en","currency":"USD","region":1},"backendType":"OS","backend":"E","volatility":"short","code":200,"warnings":{}}