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Jefferson County, TN.- Today, U.S. Representative Diana Harshbarger (TN-01) visited two public elementary schools in Jefferson County’s School Districtto deliver book donations for teachers and their students as well as to help fill their library’s shelves from her office’s partnership with the U.S. Library of Congress Surplus Books Program.
Hawkins County, TN.- On Thursday, January 19th, U.S. Representative Diana Harshbarger (TN-01) visited Joseph Rogers Primary School and the Words on Wheels (WOW) Bus, both of Hawkins County School System as well as Mount Carmel Library to deliver just over 200 book donations from the U.S. Library of Congress Surplus Books Program to help them fill their book shelves.
WASHINGTON (WJHL) — Rep. Diana Harshbarger has introduced a bill to restrict the availability of the abortion pill mifepristone.
Mifepristone is taken with another drug, misoprostol, to terminate pregnancies up to 10 weeks.
Harshbarger’s bill would roll back a recent ruling by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) allowing the pill to be dispensed by retail and mail-order pharmacies. Previously, mifepristone could only be picked up in person at specialty clinics and doctor’s offices.
House Republicans introduced a bill on Tuesday that would undo recent rule changes from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) allowing for more widespread access to medication abortion, The Daily Signal first reported.
Representatives Diana Harshbarger (R-TN-01) and Kevin Hern (R-OK-01) introduced a bill Tuesday in the U.S. House of Representatives to invalidate the FDA’s recently-updated Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) of mifepristone, a chemical abortion drug.
Mifepristone is a chemical drug treatment that works together with misoprostol to end a pregnancy through ten weeks gestation, according to the FDA.
WASHINGTON – U.S. Representative Diana Harshbarger (R-TN) and Republican Study Committee Chairman Representative Kevin Hern (R-OK) introduced a bill to nullify a FDA risk evaluation and mitigation strategy (REMS) on Mifepristone, a chemical abortion drug.
A group of House Republicans have introduced a bill to place restrictions on chemical abortion pills. If enacted, access to abortion pills would be limited to in-person distribution.
The legislation would nullify recent rule changes from President Joe Biden’s Food and Drug Administration that allows the abortion drug regimen of mifepristone and misoprostol to be prescribed to women via telemedicine and delivered by mail, and gives pharmacies permission to fill prescriptions for abortion drugs.
As the representative of Tennessee’s first congressional district, 2022 was a year full of worthy policy battles, victories for East Tennessee, and further connecting with my constituency, or as I say, my friends and neighbors.
This year, Republicans were outnumbered in the House and Senate, and a career liberal sat in the Oval Office. Our struggles to lower government spending, protect our borders, defend the family unit, and protect the unborn were battles fought uphill, both ways, in the snow!
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Representative Diana Harshbarger (R-TN) released the following statement regarding her bill, the DHS Contract Reporting Act being signed into law:
U.S. Representatives Diana Harshbarger (R-TN) led a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Wednesday calling on the agency to scrap its proposed rule that would classify certain PFAS as "hazardous substances".
That classification falls under the federal Superfund law, Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA).