Reps. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) and Beth Van Duyne (R-Texas) agreed Wednesday that the government shutdown — whoever is to blame — is halting their potential progress on a bipartisan bill seeking to bridge financial gaps around breast cancer detection.

"We're not doing work on bills that should be getting done," Dingell told Kathleen Koch on Wednesday at The Hill's event "Screening Saves Lives — Closing the Gap in Breast Cancer Care" sponsored by the Alliance for Breast Cancer Policy.

Both representatives first introduced the Access to Breast Cancer Diagnosis Act (ABCD) in 2019. Since then, it has been reintroduced at least five times, most recently in April. A Senate version of the bill was sponsored by Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.).

The congresswomen said the........

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