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A top income-tax rate of 44 percent for Americans earning more than $5 million per year isn't under consideration, a White House official said Monday, knocking down a proposal said to be backed by top Trump adviser Steve Bannon. "I don't think that that's on the table right now, to be honest with you," White House director of legislative affairs Marc Short said on Fox News.
Speaking in opposition to net neutrality in June 2006, Alaska Senator Ted Stevens related the Internet to a "series of tubes" as an argument in favor of Internet providers prioritizing traffic for some customers. "...They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet.
President Donald Trump has described himself as "a loyalty freak" and told interviewers that it is the trait he cares about most when hiring an employee. "We could use some more loyalty, I will tell you that," he said at the Boy Scout Jamboree last week.
After the collapse of Obamacare repeal, Republicans may have to choose between pursuing another health bill or pushing through a tax overhaul this year, because there's almost certainly not enough time to do both. And that's not even their biggest problem -- which is, they can't agree on either.
John McCain surprised and disappointed lots of Republicans this past week when he voted against the "Skinny Bill" which would have allowed for a repeal of Obamacare. It turns out he got a phone call and some encouragement for his vote from former Vice President Joe Biden.
In this Tuesday, July 25, 2017, photo, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine is surrounded by reporters as she arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, before a test vote on the Republican health care bill. Collins, who was one of three Republican senators voting against the GOP health bill on Friday, July 28, said she's troubled by Trump's suggestions that the insurance payments are a "bailout."
U.S. President Donald Trump has not answered a single question from non-friendly media about his party's health care plan. He seems fond of tweeting about the topic to publicly scold Republicans, but it's not clear if Trump knows or understands any of the nuances of health care policy.
When the tweeter-in-chief castigated Senate Republicans as "total quitters" for failing to repeal the Affordable Care Act, he couldn't have been more wrong. In fact, they showed zombie-like relentlessness in their determination to take health care away from millions of Americans, shambling forward despite devastating analyses by the Congressional Budget Office, denunciations of their plans by every major medical group, and overwhelming public disapproval.
After a chaotic week for President Donald Trump and his party, Republicans are facing a fundamental question: What's next? With a new chief of staff, communications director and press secretary in tow, the President clearly is seeking to "hit the reset button," as his now former chief of staff Reince Priebus said Friday. Also clamoring to turn the page, GOP leaders on both sides of Capitol Hill are clearly signaling they are ready to turn to a slew of issues and agenda items this fall, like taxes, border security, the budget, spending bills, and more -- and even Trump administration officials are echoing that call.
They met more than a decade ago, when the genteel junior senator from Alabama invited the brash real estate mogul to testify on Capitol Hill about the renovation of the United Nations. Jeff Sessions was taken by Donald Trump, calling him a "breath of fresh air for this Senate."
U.S. intelligence agencies are telling us not to worry about the FISA Amendments Act, a 2008 law that allows the NSA to tap into the communications of "non-U.S. persons" who are outside the U.S., even though this law sidesteps the Fourth Amendment as it allows the NSA to record the emails and phone calls of U.S. citizens who happen to be communicating with people overseas. How many American citizens is the government listening in on? We don't know, as the intelligence agencies told Congress they can't say just how many American citizens they've eavesdropped on .
Republican U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan speaks at a town hall meeting at Bartlett High School in Anchorage on Saturday, May 20. Republican U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan speaks at a town hall meeting at Bartlett High School in Anchorage on Saturday, May 20. How dare you, Mr. President, from your Twittering perch in distant Washington, threaten a senator from Alaska - or any senator - with damage to her state's share of public interests because she voted not your views but her own carefully considered views on a matter of concern to Alaskans. Apparently you think that Alaskans are so attuned to top-down dictatorial styles of government that they will punish Sen. Lisa Murkowski at the polls at your direction.
House Freedom Caucus Chairman Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., center, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, July 12, 2017, to say that his group wants to delay the traditional August recess until work is accomplished on health care, the debt ceiling and tax reform. A major GOP group is encouraging members like Meadows to stay focused on tax reform.
President Donald Trump is looking for a fresh start with a new White House chief of staff. But he's still clinging to an old battle, refusing to give up on health care.
America's top law enforcement officer wandered through a Salvadoran jail, sizing up the tattooed gang members who sat with their backs to him on the concrete floors of their cells. His soft voice was barely audible over the downpour pelting the tin roof as he spoke to the local police.
Susan Collins Collins: Trump's threat to end ObamaCare payments won't change my vote Collins recounts 'heartwarming' welcome in Maine after healthcare 'no' vote Kelly starts new White House gig Monday amid high hopes from Republicans MORE said President Trump's threats to cut off funding for key ObamaCare payments won't change her vote on the GOP's plan to repeal it. the cost-sharing reduction payments, as well as his apparent threat to cut off the healthcare benefits of members of Congress if they don't pass a new bill, would change her vote.
Democrat Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election to President Donald Trump, but some Republicans in Congress are intensifying their calls to investigate her and other Obama administration officials. As investigations into Russian meddling and possible links to Trump's campaign have escalated on both sides of the Capitol, some Republicans argue that the investigations should have a greater focus on Democrats.
A tax reform bill could reach President Trump's desk by year end, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Kevin Brady said Sunday. "We're on that timetable to do it," Brady, R-Texas, told Maria Bartiromo on "Sunday Morning Futures."
Maine residents are lambasting health care insurers for proposing double-digit premium hikes they say would hurt the state's middle and lower classes. Harvard Pilgrim and Anthem Inc. have both said they may leave the Affordable Care Act marketplace in the nation's oldest state next year, citing rising health care costs driven by pharmaceutical drug prices and uncertainty over the health care law's future.