As the Senate prepares to vote on their version of the tax bill as early as this week, all eyes are on six Senators.
Three Senators, Jeff Flake (R-AZ), Bob Corker (R-TN), and John McCain (R-AZ) are virtually immune from outside pressure as they are unlikely to face voters again. Flake and Corker are retiring and McCain is 80, just won reelection and is battling a serious illness. All three have expressed serious concerns about how much the tax proposal will increase the federal defi...
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The Republican tax plan is in trouble
Republicans desperately need to pass tax reform. After multiple failed attempts at repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, Republicans in Congress have to prove they can get something done, especially when their party controls the White House and both chambers of Congress.
On Wednesday, Senate Republicans announced they will attempt to repeal the individual mandate that requires Americans to be covered by health insurance in order to pay for the massive corporate tax cut &#...
‘It was a group of 13 men who did it’: Republican senator criticizes GOP health care reform efforts
During a Friday morning speech in which she announced she’ll forgo a run for governor and stay in the U.S. Senate, Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) criticized Senate Republican leadership for shutting women out of the process of developing health care legislation.
Amid a broader critique of the secretive process Republicans used in their failed attempts to repeal Obamacare earlier this year, Collins decried that “the Senate Republican health care bills were drafted behind close...
Republican’s last-gasp effort to demolish Obamacare has likely failed
The last-gasp Republican drive to tear down President Barack Obama's health care law essentially died Monday.
Senator Susan Collins all but says she’ll vote against latest Trumpcare bill
Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) told CNN’s Jake Tapper on State of The Union on Sunday that “it’s very difficult” to envision a scenario where she would vote for the latest Obamacare repeal bill, dubbed “Graham-Cassidy.” She said she will definitively decide Monday, after the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) releases its preliminary estimates on the bill.
But Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) — one of the bill’s drafters — said ...
McCain joins new legislative effort to overturn Trump’s trans military ban
It became clear Thursday that the Senate would not consider an amendment to the defense budget addressing President Trump’s ban on transgender people serving in the military, but lawmakers have not given up. On Friday, they introduced a separate bill addressing the ban, with new bipartisan support: Sen. John McCain (R-AZ).
The bill expands upon bipartisan support the amendment already enjoyed from Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Jack Reed (D-RI), and Susan Collins (R-ME), but...
Repealing Obamacare alone would leave 32 million Americans uninsured
Thirty-two million Americans would lose their health insurance by 2026 if Obamacare is repealed without a replacement.
