Lawmakers to discuss child care, SNAP benefits today

The busy week in Washington continues this morning as lawmakers meet to discuss child care and nutritional assistance. Here’s what’s happening: 

• Child care hearings: Subcommittees of the House Small Business and House Education and Labor committees are separately convening small business owners and policy experts to consider the economic impact — including lost wages from missed work — when parents don’t have access to adequate child care. 
• SNAP hearing: A House Oversight and Reform subcommittee is meeting to revisit the changes proposed by the Trump administration to the nutritional assistance program known as SNAP. A final rule was issued in December to limit states’ ability to expand SNAP eligibility, a move that could adversely affect nearly 700,000 households with children. Officials from advocacy organizations as well as public school teachers will appear to speak. 

And STAT's Nicholas Florko was watching yesterday's vaping hearing and has a recap of all the action here.