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ADA News is providing a roundup of three happenings in government that you may have missed last week.

Elizabeth Shapiro, D.D.S., J.D., was named interim executive director by the ADA Board of Trustees Feb. 8.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was confirmed as secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in a final Senate vote of 52-48.   

The ADA generally supported a scientific report that will be used to update federal dietary guidelines.

A new bill was introduced that would increase access to certain oral care items that can be purchased with FSAs and HSAs.