House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) on Wednesday said House Republicans will aim to cut spending on Medicare, Medicaid and welfare programs next year as a way to trim the federal deficit."We're going to have to get ba...
Month: December 2017
Hundreds of protesters fight the GOP tax bill on Capitol Hill
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Nearly 300 protesters stormed the the Cannon Office Building at the House of Representatives Tuesday afternoon, flooding the halls with chants of “Kill this bill, don’t kill us.”
The protesters focused on the offices of Congress members who voted yes on the GOP tax package and are vulnerable in the 2018 midterm elections. Among them: Reps. Ryan Costello (R-PA), Barbara Comstock (R-VA), Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Carlos Curbelo (R-FL), Bria...
Woman with stage 4 cancer thrown out of town hall after asking GOP senator about health care
Las Vegas resident Laura Packard is a self-employed small business owner who has stage 4 Hodgkin’s lymphoma and health insurance through an Affordable Care Act exchange. On Saturday, she was thrown out of a town hall event featuring Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV) after she tried to ask him why he supports legislation that would strip coverage from people like her.
After the moderator of the LIBRE Initiative read Heller a question about the Republican tax cut plan that was written by ...
Trump: ‘We’re a long way toward getting rid of’ Obamacare
President Trump on Dec. 5 said that “we’re a long way toward getting rid of” the Affordable Care Act. Trump said he would replace the ACA with “something very good and very much more affordable.”
‘Hands off my birth control’: 500,000 personal objections to one Trump administration policy
The Iowa family clinic Chelsea Vargas went to recently closed, forcing her to reconsider her current form of birth control. The clinic provided her a free birth control ring. Without the clinic’s financial assistance, she won’t be able to afford her preferred contraception. (Although most plans cover the ring, she hasn’t been able to pay off her deductible to use her insurance.)
Before the clinic closed, she switched from the ring to an implant, a tiny rod inserted...
Chairman expects ‘strong support’ among House GOP for mandate repeal in tax bill
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-Texas) told reporters Tuesday that he expects most House Republicans will support repealing ObamaCare's individual mandate in tax legislation, as GOP senators did....
Here are the disputes Republicans need to resolve before they can pass their tax bill
Over the weekend, in the dead of night, the United States Senate passed their version of Trump’s tax bill, approving a tax plan that would provide a massive tax cut to corporations and the very wealth but provide middle class families with little tax relief.
But before the president’s “big, beautiful Christmas present” can be sent to Trump for his signature, the House and Senate have to reconcile their differences in a conference committee, where Congressional Republican...
Hannity: GOP is ‘dead party’
Fox News host Sean Hannity railed on the Republican Party, citing its failure to repeal and replace ObamaCare and referring to it as a "dead party."During an interview on SiriusXM 125, Hannity ...
Susan Collins now pushing for $10 billion for Obamacare stabilization bill
The original bill called for less than half that -- $4.5 billion