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To prevent climate catastrophe, Democrats need to learn a ruthless lesson from Senate GOP

climate, News, politics, republican-party

Congressional Republicans, especially GOP senators led by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, have all but destroyed the possibility of bipartisan deal-making on major issues.

The widely criticized and wildly unpopular GOP tax bill is the inevitable byproduct of that destruction — but the end of a livable climate for America and the world is also inevitable unless Republicans become less ruthless or Democrats become more ruthless.

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Woman with stage 4 cancer thrown out of town hall after asking GOP senator about health care

health care, News, politics

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 ...

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Here are the disputes Republicans need to resolve before they can pass their tax bill

News, politics

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...

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Senate advances tax bill that benefits the rich and will cost $1.4 trillion dollars

congress, News, politics, Senate

The Senate voted 51 to 49 to pass its version of the GOP Tax Cuts and Jobs Act early Saturday morning. Many lawmakers only received the text of the massive bill, which has far-reaching implications across multiple sectors, just before the vote, leaving no time to read the almost-500 page piece of legislation.

Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) was the only Republican to vote against the plan, and no Democrats voted for it.

The Senate version now has to be reconciled with the House versio...

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