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Month: July 2017
McConnell calls for Obamacare repeal vote after replacement plan fails
Two more senators oppose health bill, in apparent body blow to the GOP effort to replace Obamacare.
Trump, Tweeting About Health Care, Says, ‘We Will Return’
The morning after Senate Republicans’ hopes for a health care bill died, President Trump restated his strategy to let the Affordable Care Act “fail.”
GOP senator confident colleagues can rally around healthcare plan
Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) said on Tuesday that he was confident Senate Republicans could come together to pass a measure repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act.In an appearance on "Fox & Friends,"...
Nuns are suing to stop a pipeline—because they believe the earth is sacred
A win could change the way environmentalists fight pipelines.CREDIT: iStock
A group of Pennsylvania Catholic nuns are suing to protect their land from potential pipeline construction an unusual legal argument: religious liberty, specifically one popularized by right-wing Christians.
As the Washington Post’s Julie Zauzmer reported over the weekend, a group of nuns in Columbia, Pennsylvania are fi...
The Republican health care gambit falls apart
The Republican plan to replace the Affordable Care Act is now dead. The broader GOP crusade to repeal "Obamacare" is not.
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The Daily 202: After Senate bill falls apart, Republicans don’t have the votes to repeal Obamacare
McConnell’s new gambit unlikely to work.
WATCH: McConnell calls for Obamacare repeal vote
The loss of support for the current health care bill from two more Republicans, Sens. Jerry Moran and Mike Lee, left the Senate majority leader without enough votes to move the bill forward.
