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The nation's doctors, hospitals and health insurance plans are unified in their opposition to the latest Republican bill to dismantle Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act. In a joint statement on Saturday, major groups such as the American Medical Association, the American Hospital Association, America's Health Insurance Plans and the BlueCross BlueShield Association called on the Senate to reject the bill sponsored by GOP Sens. Lindsey Graham and Bill Cassidy.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speaks to the media, accompanied by Senate Majority Whip Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017, in Washington.
In this My 3, 2017, file photo, Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., left, speaks to reporters outside the White House in Washington, following a meeting with President Donald Trump on health care reform. Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore.
Senator Susan Collins, R-Maine, announced on Sunday that it is "very difficult" for her to envision a scenario in which she would vote for the Graham-Cassidy health care bill, potentially driving a final stake into the heart of the GOP's recent attempt at an Obamacare repeal. The Republican-controlled Senate would need Collins' vote to pass the bill, as two senators - John McCain, R-Ariz, and Rand Paul, R-Tenn.
Sen. Susan Collins told CNN that it would be "very difficult for me to envision a scenario" where she would vote for Republicans' latest plan to repeal and replace Obamacare, but the Maine Republican said she wanted to wait for a Congressional Budget Office score of the Graham-Cassidy bill before rendering a final decision.
Rep. Fred Upton, who has held southwestern Michigan's congressional seat for 30 years, took more steps toward a Senate run at the GOP's biennial leadership conference this weekend on Mackinac Island. While he has yet to make a final decision, numerous Republicans expect him to join the race.
The hate murder of Indian avionics engineer Srinivas Kuchibhotla in Kansas City earlier this year shocked many people. His killing is affecting his widow's ability to remain in the United States.
Tami Luchow is a Diversity and Inclusion Speaker and Consultant and Founder of "Care for Life and Limb," which is Senator Lindsey Graham spoke at a Bar Mitzvah I attended on a recent Shabbos. After his welcoming remarks to the congregation, the rabbi asked the senator a few prepared questions about his position on Israel, Iran's nuclear capabilities, white supremacy, China, North Korea, and more.
Salas was a freshman at Rauner College Prep in Chicago when she was granted temporary status in America under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program created by the Obama administration in 2012. "It was such a relief when I got it just because I knew I was safe for awhile," she said, seated outside a coffee shop at Monmouth College in Monmouth, Illinois where she now is a junior.
Unwilling to concede defeat on a bedrock GOP promise, President Donald Trump on Saturday tried to sway two Republican holdouts on the party's last-ditch health care hope while clawing at his nemesis who again has brought the "Obamacare" repeal-and-replace effort to the brink of failure. Trump appealed to Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a possible "no" vote, to swing around for the sake of Alaskans up in arms over high insurance costs, and suggested that Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul might reverse his stated opposition "for the good of the Party!" Arizona Sen. John McCain, whose announcement Friday that he would not vote for the proposal seemingly scuttled efforts to revive the repeal, came under renewed criticism from the White House.
U.S. Sen. Luther Strange and former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore will face off in a Republican runoff on Tuesday. Polls across the state, including in Walker County, will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., according to state law.
Sen. Bill Cassidy , center, joined by fellow senators, including Sen. Lindsey O. Graham , far left, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell , far right, speaks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington on Sept. 19. The Affordable Care Act faced immediate constitutional challenges once it was enacted.
On the occasions when President Donald Trump's rambling 90-minute speech in Huntsville, Alabama, on Friday wandered back to its advertised subject, the reelection campaign of Republican Sen. Luther Strange, the president tended to marvel less at the candidate's politics than his height. "I said, 'That is the tallest human being I've ever seen!' " Trump said, recalling when he first met Strange before this year's health-care reform battles.
Despite Arizona Sen. John McCain's decision to oppose the latest Republican health care plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, the effort is still ongoing, GOP aides say -- at least for the moment. Multiple aides involved in the process say the focus on winning Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski's vote has continued into the weekend, with changes seen to benefit her state related to the state's funding formula in the bill and the timeline for implementation.
Tossing control of federal health care dollars back to the states is something the Left stands firmly against - and exactly what the Republican U.S. Senate majority's latest attempt at reforming ObamaCare would do. Illinois' Left had nothing to fear from the state's two elected U.S. Senators.
Sen. John McCain , listened as former FBI Director James Comey testified in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee, on his past relationship with President Donald Trump, and his role in the Russian interference investigation, in the Senate Hart building on Capitol Hill, on Thursday, June 8, 2017. "John McCain never had any intention of voting for this Bill, which his Governor loves.
Last-ditch Obamacare repeal would be poison Graham-Cassidy is another cynical effort that would deny health insurance to millions Check out this story on dailyworld.com: U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., likens President Donald Trump's management style to the former owner of the New York Yankees after a meeting with veterans at the LITE Center in Lafayette on Thursday, August 24, 2017. Given up as a lost cause this summer, the Republican effort to repeal and replace Obamacare is back, this time in the form of a last-ditch effort led by GOP Sens. Lindsey Graham, Bill Cassidy, Dean Heller and Ron Johnson.