Showing posts with label waiver. Show all posts
Showing posts with label waiver. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 19, 2026

Thursday, May 6, 2021

Biden administration to waive vaccine patent protection - The Washington Post

… "With this waiver, we can share vaccine recipes, largely developed with taxpayer dollars, while assuring reasonable royalties to American manufacturers," said Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Tex.), who chairs the House Ways and Means health subcommittee and met with White House officials on the waiver last week…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/05/05/biden-waives-vaccine-patents/


Friday, December 8, 2017

After Jerusalem recognition, Trump signs waiver delaying embassy move | The Times of Israel

Hours after recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital Wednesday, and saying he had instructed the State Department to begin preparation to relocate the US embassy there, US President Donald Trump signed the waiver putting off any such move by another six months.....
https://www.timesofisrael.com/after-jerusalem-recognition-trump-signs-waiver-delaying-embassy-move/


Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Iowa Leads Stampede Of States Asking For Permission To Rewrite Obamacare -- TPM

With the Trump administration sending clear signals that it is open to state requests to rewrite their laws governing both Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act's marketplaces—requests that the Obama administration roundly rejected and that could roll back coverage for hundreds of thousands of people—waivers are pouring in. This week, Iowa submitted a final proposal to drastically overhaul its ACA compliance. ....
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/iowa-1332-waiver-obamacare-hhs

Wednesday, August 9, 2017

Thursday, June 15, 2017

Office of Government Ethics nixes Steve Bannon's 'unsigned and undated' retroactive ethics waiver

In May, four Democratic senators wrote a letter to the Office of Government Ethics probing the Trump administration's supposed "retroactive" waiver exempting Steve Bannon, poster child for White House dysfunction, from certain federal ethics rules. OGE director Walter Shaub had previously dismissed the notion of a "retroactive" ethics waiver; now the office has issued its formal response.

Short version: No, retroactive waivers for ethics violations that have already occurred are still not a thing....
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/1671861









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