Senate Republicans face their own divisions in push for health-care overhaul
By Robert Costa and Sean Sullivan
May 9th, 2017 Sen. Ted Cruz, a defiant loner whose feuds with Republican Party leaders have made him a conservative favorite, suddenly felt an itch to collaborate. It was late March, just after the dramatic collapse of House Republicans’ initial attempt to pass a sweeping overhaul of the nation’s health-care system. Cruz (R-Tex.) sent notice to party colleagues that he wanted to convene a working group to keep alive the GOP’s pledge to undo the law known as Obamacare...Read More Source: Washington post |
Republicans push new health-care tweak in effort to protect preexisting
conditions — and to garner votes
By Sean Sullivan, David Weigel and Paige Winfield Cunningham
May 3rd, 2017 A top House Republican is proposing yet another amendment to the GOP health-care plan, in hopes of finally pushing the controversial measure to passage after weeks of fits and starts...Read more Source: Washington Post |
Republicans still searching for a plan B on health care.
By Lauren Fox and Deirdre Walsh
April 5th, 2017 Republican members of Congress exited a two-hour meeting on Capitol Hill with Vice President Mike Pence Tuesday night without a deal on health care. Members of the House Freedom Caucus, the Tuesday Group and the Republican Study Committee left the meeting with a scripted refrain: They had a "good talk" and were "making progress," but no deal was actually struck...read more Source: cnn |
Conservatives on health care bill: Negotiations are over
By MJ Lee, Lauren Fox and Deirdre Walsh
March 20th, 2017 After a frenzy of closed-door meetings, intense lobbying and political posturing, conservative lawmakers threw up their hands Monday and declared: The negotiations surrounding the Republican health care bill are over...Read more Source: cnn |
Trump to visit Republicans as leaders put
By MJ Lee
March 20th, 2017 House Republicans are preparing for what is shaping up to be one of the most politically consequential moments for the GOP this year: A vote to repeal and replace Obamacare...read more Source: CNN |
Trump may move GOP health care bill to the
By MJ Lee, Lauren Fox and Eli Watkins
March 20th, 2017 The Trump administration, under pressure from conservative lawmakers, appears increasingly open to changing legislation repealing and replacing Obamacare in order to placate the right -- but that may guarantee at least this version of the bill is as good as dead in the Senate...read more Source: cnn |
There are now almost 60 Republicans with major concerns about the GOP's
Obamacare replacement bill
by Amber Phillips
March 15th, 2017 To get their version of an Obamacare replacement through Congress and onto President Trump's desk, Republican leaders need only a simple majority in both chambers to approve it...Read More source: Washington Post |
Rattled by CBO report, moderate Republicans turn against GOP bill
by Lauren Fox and MJ Lee
March 15th, 2017 A devastating analysis from the Congressional Budget Office on the House GOP bill to repeal Obamacare has rattled moderate Republicans in the House, who are uneasy about the prospects of voting for a proposal that increasingly appears dead on arrival in the Senate...read more Source: CNN |
CONGRESS Republicans near make-or-break moment on Obamacare repeal
by BURGESS EVERETT and JENNIFER HABERKORN
February 28th, 2017 Republicans are having a break-the-glass moment on Obamacare. After promising for years to upend the Democratic health care law the first chance they got — and with plans to hold a vote to repeal by early April — the party remains far from consensus. So far, in fact, that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has called a special all-members caucus meeting Wednesday to try and get his rowdy caucus in line...read more Source: Politico |
National security adviser: Term 'radical Islamic terrorism' isn't helpful
By evan perez
February 25th, 2017
New national security adviser H.R. McMaster is already setting a strikingly different tone than his ousted predecessor, Michael Flynn, and President Donald Trump, saying the term "radical Islamic terrorism" isn't helpful for US goals...read more
Source: cnn
February 25th, 2017
New national security adviser H.R. McMaster is already setting a strikingly different tone than his ousted predecessor, Michael Flynn, and President Donald Trump, saying the term "radical Islamic terrorism" isn't helpful for US goals...read more
Source: cnn
Cabinet picks clash with White House over hiring
By JOSH DAWSEY and ANDREW RESTUCCIA
February 22nd, 2017
The White House’s deep involvement in hiring decisions across the government is frustrating some of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet secretaries, spurring early tussles between the president’s advisers and leaders of federal agencies...Read More
Source: Politico
February 22nd, 2017
The White House’s deep involvement in hiring decisions across the government is frustrating some of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet secretaries, spurring early tussles between the president’s advisers and leaders of federal agencies...Read More
Source: Politico
Trump defense chief Mattis: US not ready for military cooperation with Russia
By James Masters
February 16th, 2017
US Defense Secretary James Mattis said Thursday that the US is"not in a position right now" to collaborate with Russia on military matters.
Speaking at a NATO conference in Brussels, Mattis accused Russia of violating international law, labeling its actions as "aggressive" and "destabilizing."...Read More
Source: CNN
February 16th, 2017
US Defense Secretary James Mattis said Thursday that the US is"not in a position right now" to collaborate with Russia on military matters.
Speaking at a NATO conference in Brussels, Mattis accused Russia of violating international law, labeling its actions as "aggressive" and "destabilizing."...Read More
Source: CNN
Top Senate Republicans urge White House to withdraw Puzder nomination
by manu raju
february 15th, 2017
Top Senate Republicans have urged the White House to withdraw the Andrew Puzder nomination for labor secretary, a senior GOP source said, adding there are four firm Republican no votes and possibly up to 12...read more
Source: cnn
february 15th, 2017
Top Senate Republicans have urged the White House to withdraw the Andrew Puzder nomination for labor secretary, a senior GOP source said, adding there are four firm Republican no votes and possibly up to 12...read more
Source: cnn
Sean Spicer isn't finished
By dylan byers
Frebruary 15th, 2017
Sean Spicer has barely moved into his office.
Three weeks after the inauguration, the only things adorning the White House press secretary's shelves are a framed picture of himself at the podium, a book on Naval Special Warfare (he's in the Reserve), and a Super Soaker commemorating the infamous "Saturday Night Live" skit in which he, played by an enraged Melissa McCarthy, berated reporters while dousing them with soapy water...Read More
Source: CNN
Frebruary 15th, 2017
Sean Spicer has barely moved into his office.
Three weeks after the inauguration, the only things adorning the White House press secretary's shelves are a framed picture of himself at the podium, a book on Naval Special Warfare (he's in the Reserve), and a Super Soaker commemorating the infamous "Saturday Night Live" skit in which he, played by an enraged Melissa McCarthy, berated reporters while dousing them with soapy water...Read More
Source: CNN
Conservatives fret GOP is blowing
By RACHAEL BADE
FEBRUARY 13TH, 2017 House conservatives — anxious that the GOP’s effort to end Obamacare is getting bogged down in the fight over what a replacement should look like — are plotting a major push to repeal the law immediately without simultaneously approving an alternative...Read more Source: Politico |
Ryan vows to scrap Obamacare in 2017By Kyle CHeney
February 7th, 2017 House Speaker Paul Ryan said Tuesday that Congress would pass its repeal and replacement of Obamacare in 2017, moving to quell doubts about the Republican timeline for gutting the health care law...read more Source: Politico |