Four GOP senators -- enough to kill the legislation -- say they need hard assurances from House Speaker Paul Ryan that a "skinny" ObamaCare repeal bill won't be Congress's final product before they'll vote for it.S...
Month: July 2017
GOP rep: Senate ObamaCare repeal ‘is ugly to the bone’
A top House Republican expressed displeasure Thursday with the Senate's plan to pass a "skinny" ObamaCare repeal."The 'skinny repeal' deal is ugly to the bone," tweeted Rep. Mark Walker (R-N.C.), chairman of the Re...
Sen. Graham: ‘Skinny Bill’ a ‘Half-Assed’…
Sen. Graham: 'Skinny Bill a 'Half-Assed' Approach to Obamacare...
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Democrats want investigation into Trump administration’s reported ‘blackmail’ over health care…
Democrats want investigation into Trump administration’s reported ‘blackmail’ over health care votesCommittee ranking member describes conduct as similar to what “we’d see from the Kremlin.”President Donald Trump meets with Republican senators, including Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), on health care at the White House on June 27, 2017. CREDIT: AP Photo/Susan Walsh
Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ), the top De...
Senate GOP prepared to vote for health care bill they don’t support, could become law
Are Republicans falling for the old okie-doke?Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., and Senate Majority Whip Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, speak on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 18. President Donald Trump blasted congressional Democrats and “a few Republicans” over the collapse of the GOP effort to rewrite t...
Advocates anticipate severe gutting of reproductive rights in health care bill
No matter what is voted on in Congress, reproductive rights advocates fear women’s health care will be endangered.Demonstrators march around the Capitol Building as they protest against the Senate GOP healthcare bill in Washington, June 28, 2017. CREDIT: AP/Andrew Harnik
A proxy vote on repealing the Affordable Care Act and defunding Planned Parenthood failed Wednesday, but as the health care debate c...
Faith groups launch major push to stop GOP health care repeal
Demonstrators said Thursday they are acting as the ‘eyes of God.’Faith leaders CREDIT: Biljana Milenkovic/Twitter. Used with permission.
The halls of power are crowded with collars, stoles, and yarmulkes this week, as groups from across the religious spectrum descend on Capitol Hill to make the religious case against the GOP-led effort to dismantle the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
As Republican se...
Official DOE account tweets praise for Rick Perry’s ‘fight’ against climate scientists
The department is already facing criticism for an op-ed Perry wrote criticizing the Affordable Care Act.Energy Secretary Rick Perry. CREDIT: AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin
The Department of Energy’s official press Twitter account apparently wants you to know two things: that there is a fight going on between climate scientists and Secretary of Energy Rick Perry, and that Perry is supposedly winning.
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Tweets aren’t policy
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With Senate Republicans’ latest effort to repeal the ACA seemingly stalled — leaving health insurance for millions of people up in the air — GOP lawmakers are turning to gimmicks like introducing a “single-payer system” amendment. Democrats and health care advocates aren’t falling for it, though. Meanwhile, the White House and Republican allies in Congress are threatening e...