Continue congressional oversight of health reauthorization programs to ensure taxpayer funds are properly targeted, spent as intended, and protective of patient privacy.

Congress will continue to take a close look to ensure these taxpayer-funded programs are properly targeted and allocate resources to areas and patients who need it most.

Griffith committed Congress to ongoing oversight of the health programs being reauthorized, including targeting resources to patients and areas most in need.

HMKP-119-IF14-MState-G000568-20260513.pdf
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The committee says Chairman Morgan Griffith led a markup of public health reauthorization bills, FDA oversight bills, and Medicare policies; all 10 listed measures were reported to the full committee by voice vote.

Within the lookback window, Griffith chaired a Health Subcommittee markup and advanced multiple health reauthorization and oversight-related bills, showing concrete continued oversight but not final enactment.

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Health Subcommittee Advances Public Health Reauthorizations and Policies to Improve FDA and Medicare to Full Committee
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The full Energy and Commerce Committee reported 16 bills to the House, including H.R. 4348, H.R. 4541, H.R. 3747, H.R. 8209, H.R. 5160, H.R. 8205, H.R. 2715, H.R. 2821, H.R. 5347, and H.R. 1703, all by favorable roll-call votes.

Bills that moved through Griffith's Health Subcommittee advanced to the full House during the lookback window, indicating measurable progress but not completed lawmaking.

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E&C Advances 16 Bills to Full House
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Griffith's prepared statement says the markup included public health programs expiring at the end of the fiscal year and gave the subcommittee an opportunity to examine how to strengthen them.

Griffith explicitly framed the May 13 markup as reviewing expiring public health authorizations and strengthening programs, which aligns with continuing oversight of health reauthorizations.

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Chairman Griffith Delivers Opening Statement at Subcommittee on Health Markup of Public Health Reauthorizations and Policies to Improve FDA and Medicare
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The House repository memo lists the May 13 Health Subcommittee markup agenda and summarizes reauthorizations for vector-borne disease programs, breast cancer education, Project ECHO, school-based health centers, stem cell and cord blood programs, and ALS access programs.

The official markup memo verifies that the Griffith-chaired proceeding was centered on multiple health reauthorization programs and related oversight/Medicare/FDA policy bills.

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Majority Memorandum for May 13, 2026, Subcommittee on Health Markup
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The committee says Griffith led a hearing titled Examining the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, MACRA, and Opportunities for Payment Reforms, focused on provider payment challenges, affordability, competition, and access.

This is a concrete oversight hearing during the lookback window on MACRA, a health reauthorization law affecting Medicare and CHIP policy.

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Health Subcommittee Holds Hearing Examining Medicare Physician Payment Issues and Reforms Enacted in MACRA
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Griffith's statement identifies MIPS reporting burdens, payment instability, consolidation risks, and costs to patients and the federal government as issues for the hearing to examine.

The hearing statement shows targeted oversight of whether Medicare payment reforms are working as intended and whether federal health spending is producing affordable access.

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Chairman Griffith Delivers Opening Statement at Health Subcommittee Hearing to Examine Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and MACRA
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The committee states that Griffith joined letters to 10 states seeking information and documents on Medicaid program integrity, fraud, waste, and abuse.

Although outside the 30-day lookback, this official oversight action supports the taxpayer-funds portion of the commitment by documenting Griffith's role in a Medicaid fraud and program-integrity investigation.

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E&C Leaders Expand Investigation into Medicaid Fraud Nationwide
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Griffith said authorization bills require evaluating program impacts, whether funds are spent as intended, and whether patient privacy is protected; the page lists seven public health reauthorization bills reported to full committee by voice vote.

This same-term source directly ties Griffith's health reauthorization oversight to taxpayer spending and patient privacy, matching the commitment's core terms.

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Health Subcommittee Advances Public Health Reauthorization Bills to Full Committee
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