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BREAKING: Senators reach bipartisan deal to save key Obamacare subsidies

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Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Patty Murray (D-WA) have reached a deal on “a short-term limited plan to stabilize health care markets,” Alexander announced Tuesday afternoon.

Alexander, the chair of the Senate Health Committee, said there was no guarantee from Senate Leadership that the bill would go to the floor for a vote, but that Alexander and Murray, the ranking member on the Senate Health Committee, were going to round up co-sponsors and then present the bill to Senate Major...

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Provision buried in new Senate budget resolution is a major blow to transparency

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A provision tucked into the Senate budget resolution released Friday could be a blow to transparency in the legislature.

The resolution calls for repealing a requirement that a vote on legislation cannot be held unless the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has scored the legislation and made their report public for at least 28 hours.

The rule is established in section 3205 of the Congressional Budget for fiscal year 2016, which “[e]stablishes a Senate point of order against ...

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BREAKING: Extremist Roy Moore wins Alabama Senate primary, dealing major blow to Trump

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Roy Moore, an extreme far-right Republican, won Alabama’s GOP primary on Tuesday, defeating Sen. Luther Strange (R-AL) who benefited from both President Trump’s endorsement and more than $10 million from the Republican establishment.

The victory by Moore, a political outsider, is also a major loss for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who did his best to keep Moore out of Washington. But the far-right former judge framed his campaign as a rebuke of McConnell...

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