Senators James Lankford (R-OK) and Joe Manchin (I-WV) introduced on June 4 a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution of disapproval to overturn CMS’S final minimum staffing rule for nursing homes and prevent CMS from issuing a substantially similar rule in the future. The resolution is the Senate companion to H.J.Res.139, a CRA resolution introduced in the House by Representatives Michelle Fischbach (R-MN) and Greg Pence (R-IN) on May 10. In a statement issued by LeadingAge, president and CEO Katie Smith Sloan said:
“LeadingAge and our nonprofit and mission-driven members–many of whom have served their communities for decades and even centuries–share the goal of ensuring quality care. Mandates, as we’ve said repeatedly to Congress, to the Administration and to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), are not the right approach to achieving it. We need real policy solutions and investments, not mandates. As part of our aggressive, multi-faceted approach, drawing on every available tool –legislative, legal, and regulatory–to both address the fundamental issue of building the long-term care workforce and halt the regulation’s implementation, we support the CRA resolution’s introduction in the Senate. We thank Senators Lankford and Manchin for their leadership on it.”
