{"id":1347,"date":"2020-04-25T17:13:19","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T22:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogofnotesite.wpengine.com\/?page_id=1347"},"modified":"2020-05-02T17:22:18","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T22:22:18","slug":"congressional-responses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.northwesternlaw.review\/?page_id=1347","title":{"rendered":"Congressional Responses"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list has-dates wp-block-latest-posts\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.northwesternlaw.review\/?p=2040\">Beyond Investment in Research: What COVID-19 Policymakers Can Learn from the HIV\/AIDS Epidemic<\/a><time datetime=\"2020-12-17T15:02:50-06:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">December 17, 2020<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Widespread investment in biomedical research has made many Americans tentatively optimistic about the resolution of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the public sector, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act has provided nearly $10 billion in funding for therapy and vaccine development through agencies like the NIH and CDC. This effort has culminated in two important milestones: the discovery that remdesivir, a drug developed to treat Ebola, reduces morbidity for patients hospitalized with severe COVID-19, and the introduction of&#8230;<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.northwesternlaw.review\/?p=2040\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.northwesternlaw.review\/?p=1520\">Can President Trump Withhold Funds When States Expand Vote-by-Mail?<\/a><time datetime=\"2020-08-05T10:09:00-05:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">August 5, 2020<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">In now-deleted tweets by President Trump, Trump claimed that Michigan sent \u201cabsentee ballots to 7.7 million people ahead of Primaries and the General Election.\u201d He alleged that the move was done \u201cillegally and without authorization by a rogue Secretary of State\u201d and continued onward to say \u201cI will ask to hold up funding to Michigan if they want to go down this Voter Fraud path!\u201d Of course, the Secretary of State of Michigan had done nothing of the sort; instead,&#8230;<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.northwesternlaw.review\/?p=1520\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.northwesternlaw.review\/?p=1498\">Access to Public Lands During the COVID-19 Pandemic<\/a><time datetime=\"2020-06-25T10:32:00-05:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">June 25, 2020<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">In an effort to reduce the risk of transmission of COVID-19, federal, state, and local governments have acted to limit or entirely close off access to public outdoor spaces, such as local playgrounds and state and national parks. As the country begins to reopen, governments have sought to balance the need for public access to these outdoor spaces with the risks posed by such access. Where the risks are too high\u2014whether because of the challenge of ensuring compliance with social&#8230;<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.northwesternlaw.review\/?p=1498\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.northwesternlaw.review\/?p=1487\">Your Right to Sue, Goodnight!<\/a><time datetime=\"2020-06-15T09:48:07-05:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">June 15, 2020<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Oh, the sun shines bright on my old Kentucky home\u2018Tis summer, the old folks are gayWhere the corn top\u2019s ripe and the meadow\u2019s in the bloomWhile the birds make music all the day Weep no more, my ladyOh, weep no more todayWe\u2019ll sing one songFor my old Kentucky homeFor my old Kentucky home, far away Well the young folks roll all around the cabin floorThey\u2019re merry, all happy and brightBy-and-by hard times will come a-knocking at my doorThen my old&#8230;<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.northwesternlaw.review\/?p=1487\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.northwesternlaw.review\/?p=1455\">Experimental Drug Could Curb Emerging COVID Mental Health Crisis<\/a><time datetime=\"2020-06-05T10:36:56-05:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">June 5, 2020<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">As the COVID-19 pandemic evolves, experts warn it is triggering a national mental health crisis. Some say it could cause up to 75,000 U.S. deaths by suicide and drug overdose. Millions may experience lasting grief from losing loved ones, depression due to unemployment, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) from working on the frontlines as&nbsp;healthcare providers&nbsp;and other essential workers.&nbsp; Traditional medications for mental illness, such as the antidepressants fluoxetine and paroxetine, are ineffective in about half of those who try them&#8230;.<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.northwesternlaw.review\/?p=1455\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.northwesternlaw.review\/?p=1419\">The Right to Repair in a Pandemic<\/a><time datetime=\"2020-05-20T12:43:33-05:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">May 20, 2020<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, companies, organizations, and individuals have used 3D printing and other measures to address supply chain gaps, producing spare parts and products such as ventilator tube splitters, nasopharyngeal swabs, and face shields. To facilitate similar efforts, the National Institute of Health has created a 3D print exchange to share models and increase production, but it has not generally approved the use of these 3D printed products. Additionally, the FDA has adopted an emergency use authorization&#8230;<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.northwesternlaw.review\/?p=1419\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.northwesternlaw.review\/?p=1414\">Vaccines and IP Preparedness in the Coronavirus Outbreak<\/a><time datetime=\"2020-05-18T09:48:25-05:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">May 18, 2020<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">The COVID-19 pandemic has shed renewed light on the importance of research and development (R&amp;D) on biopharmaceutical products needed to prevent or lessen the burden posed by outbreaks of infectious diseases. Among these, the need for new vaccines has become of paramount importance. While a race to develop different types of vaccines unfolds at unusual speed, there are still significant shortcomings in the ecosystem that leads to the production and dissemination of vaccines targeting infectious diseases like COVID-19. In the&#8230;<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.northwesternlaw.review\/?p=1414\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.northwesternlaw.review\/?p=1408\">COVID-19 Phobias About Health, Finances, Law, Leadership, and Loneliness<\/a><time datetime=\"2020-05-15T10:48:40-05:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">May 15, 2020<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">COVID-19 is not just a medical and physical health pandemic; it has also led to interrelated phobias concerning health, finances, law, leadership, and loneliness. These interconnected phobias feed off each other and can alter a person\u2019s decision-making, risk perception, and self-identity. They also create and increase anxious feelings in sufferers. Anxious people seek and take more advice, have impaired information processing and lower self-confidence, fail to differentiate between advisors with and without conflicts of interest, and fail to discern good&#8230;<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.northwesternlaw.review\/?p=1408\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.northwesternlaw.review\/?p=1364\">Vote-by-Mail Can Save Our Democracy, But Reforms Are Needed<\/a><time datetime=\"2020-04-30T11:39:04-05:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">April 30, 2020<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">As the world turns to strategies to stave off the worst effects of the novel coronavirus, now is the time to double down on our commitment to democracy. States around the country are pushing back primary and runoff elections in the hope that, if held at a later time, election procedures can return to the \u201cold normal.\u201d While states can postpone their primaries, they cannot postpone the November 2020 general election. As COVID-19 becomes a leading cause of death in&#8230;<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.northwesternlaw.review\/?p=1364\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.northwesternlaw.review\/?p=1345\">A Legal Stimulus<\/a><time datetime=\"2020-04-25T17:14:39-05:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">April 25, 2020<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">We need a legal stimulus. Not just a stimulus that&nbsp;is&nbsp;legal, but one that&nbsp;provides legal aid. That is why any further congressional stimulus should allocate additional funds specifically for legal services to individuals who, as a result of COVID-19, face eviction, foreclosure, loan defaults, debt collection, bankruptcy, domestic violence, or denied insurance claims or coverage. The need is dire. These looming crises from the pandemic will hit, but mostly after the initial health scare has dampened, the executive orders are lifted,&#8230;<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.northwesternlaw.review\/?p=1345\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":0,"parent":1291,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1347","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9jSvD-lJ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.northwesternlaw.review\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.northwesternlaw.review\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.northwesternlaw.review\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.northwesternlaw.review\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.northwesternlaw.review\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.northwesternlaw.review\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1347\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.northwesternlaw.review\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.northwesternlaw.review\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}