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President Joe Biden will call on Congress to allow Medicare to increase its ability to negotiate drug prices and to expand caps on consumer prescription drug costs during his State of the Union address Thursday.

Democrats plan to put reproductive freedom front and center at President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address Thursday night.

Democrats want to remind voters of their efforts to protect access to abortion and most recently have seized on the Alabama Supreme Court’s ruling that frozen embryos are children.

They are looking to hold Republicans’ feet to the fire and force them to answer uncomfortable questions about the full impact of fetal personhood. 

Democratic House Minority Whip Katherine Clark, U.S. representative from Massachusetts, and Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-12) met with YMCA providers, the New Jersey Department of Human Services (NJDHS), local families and officials on the need for federal funding to support child care providers and programs.

Congress’s biggest mission this week, as it has been several times over the last few months, was to keep the lights on, and it did. Phew.

In addition to passing a stopgap funding bill, New Jersey’s congressional representatives proposed new steps to protect IVF, hosted top House Democratic leaders in their districts, issued calls to save the whales, and more. Here’s some of what New Jersey’s 14 members of Congress did this week.

They’re funding the government in weeklong increments now