What is happening with Obamacare now?CREDIT: Screenshot/C-SPAN2
The Senate is currently debating on repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA). After ailing Republican health bills, Senate leadership got enough support to at least start debate on Tuesday.
No one knows how this week will end, including those running repeal efforts. The only guarantee is that there will be stumbles. The Senate is pass...
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GOP Rep says repealing Obamacare is a choice between free market and Stalin-type socialism
And a vote to repeal, Issa said, is a vote for the free market.Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., speaks with the media on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, May 17, 2017 in Washington. The Justice Department has appointed former FBI Director Robert Mueller as a special counsel to oversee a federal investigation into potential coordination between Russia and the Donald Trump campaign to influence the 2016 presidential ...
The resistance movement could still kill Trumpcare
As the Senate opens debate, constituents are ramping up pressure.Capitol Hill police officers prepare to arrest a group protesting the Republican healthcare bill outside the offices of Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, July 17, 2017. CREDIT: AP Photo/Andrew Harnik
Senate Republicans voted Tuesday to move forward with some form of a health care bill, starting the clock on...
Democratic senators introduce bill to ban insecticide linked to brain damage
Farmworkers and children are most at risk.Congressional members and activists call for congressional action on banning pesticides in Washington, D.C. on July 25, 2017. CREDIT: Esther Yu Hsi Lee/ThinkProgress
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Three years ago, neurological issues turned family life upside down for Alex B., a 24-year-old Oregonian, when his father, a longtime farmworker who picked broccoli, celery, and...
Trump announces he’s kicking thousands of transgender people out of the military
He made the announcement on Twitter.CREDIT: AP Photo/Tony Dejak
Without warning or explanation, President Trump announced on Twitter Wednesday morning that he is unilaterally reversing the military’s plan to allow transgender service:
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5 GOP senators who promised to be principled on health care and then caved when it was time to vote
Some backtracked to proceed on a motion to proceed.In this image from video, provided by C-SPAN2, the Senate floor on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 25, 2017, as Senate began debate on the health care legislation. CREDIT:C-SPAN2 via AP
The Senate just voted 51–50 on the motion to proceed — with Vice President Mike Pence breaking the tie — on legislation to be finalized later that will repea...
3 really weird moments in Trump’s press conference with Lebanon’s prime minister
We have some questions.President Donald Trump, with Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, speaks during their joint news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 25, 2017. CREDIT: AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais
President Donald Trump held a confusing and contradictory press conference with Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri on Tuesday, moments after the Senate v...
Senators voting to stop Trumpcare represent 36 million more people than the ones who didn’t
It must be nice to live in a democracy.A senator whose caucus represents less than half of the nation walks with the losers of the 2016 popular vote. CREDIT: AP Photo/Molly Riley
Tuesday afternoon, senators split 50–50 on a motion to proceed to debate an as-yet-undetermined plan to strip health coverage from an unknown number of Americans. Vice President Mike Pence, who received fewer votes than his D...
BREAKING: The Senate will begin debate on the Republican health care bill
Republicans officially moved forward on repealing Obamacare.Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. walks from the Senate Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 25, 2017. Credit: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
And the yeas have it. Amidst “kill the bill” and “shame” chants, the Senate voted on Tuesday to begin debate on repealing the Affordable Care Act, after mounting pressure from ...
Senate health care vote interrupted by protesters
It’s not over ‘til it’s over.The Senate’s vote on a motion to proceed on a bill that would repeal the Affordable Care Act Tuesday was interrupted by protesters chanting “Kill the bill.”
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