It was a busy week, but I’m back to keep you in the loop on how I am fighting for our conservative values.
Many senior citizens know all too well about dealing with Medicare coverage as it pertains to implanted “hearing aids.” That’s why I introduced the Hearing Device Coverage Clarification Act, which clarifies fully implanted active middle ear hearing devices as prosthetics, not subject to the hearing aid coverage exclusion. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) also approved these devices as prosthetics, not simple hearing aids. However, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) continues to classify them as hearing aids, which means Medicare does not cover their implantation. My bill ensures folks can benefit from these innovative devices and regain their hearing without being hassled by the CMS.
In last week's Roundup, I criticized DFL politicians in St. Paul for introducing legislation to make Minnesota a sanctuary state (the "North STAR Act"). This week, I joined the Minnesota Republican Congressional delegation in a letter to Governor Tim Walz, denouncing the bill and urging him to veto it if passed by the legislature. This disastrous bill would prohibit local law enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration authorities and state officials from enforcing immigration laws. The sanctuary city experiment has failed miserably, increasing crime while inundating our schools, hospitals, and local infrastructure with illegal aliens. I witnessed the border crisis firsthand. Now more than ever, we need to work with law enforcement—not cut them off.
Is Joe Biden mentally fit for the job of President of the United States? Congress and the American people have the right to know. We've all seen him struggle, forgetting the names of world leaders and rambling off long, winding, and incoherent anecdotes, and we've read special counsel Robert Hur's report questioning his mental capacity. It's all very worrying. As such, I joined 83 of my House colleagues in writing to the White House, demanding that he take a cognitive screening test and make the results public.
