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In this April 27, 2016, file photo, former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert departs the federal courthouse in Chicago. Hastert has reported to the Rochester Federal Center in Minnesota, Wednesday, June 22, 2016, to begin serving his 15-month sentence in a hush-money case.
House Republicans on Tuesday unveiled a budget that makes deep cuts in food stamps and other social safety net programs while boosting military spending by billions, a blueprint that pleases neither conservatives nor moderates.
Republican Senators Susan Collins and Shelley Moore Capito said on Tuesday they will not vote to repeal Obamacare without a replacement healthcare plan. The senators spoke out shortly after Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said Senate Republicans planned to vote on a straight repeal of President Barack Obama's 2010 Affordable Care Act after efforts to overhaul the law collapsed on Monday.
House Speaker Paul Ryan blamed Senate Republicans for the party's failure to pass an Obamacare repeal and replacement bill, saying he hopes House Republicans' "friends in the Senate can figure out how they can get a bill passed." Ryan made the comments at a press conference Tuesday morning, the day after two GOP lawmakers announced they would not support the bill, effectively killing it.
Some Republican senators are already saying they won't vote to repeal Obamacare without providing a replacement for it, despite Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's proposal to do so Monday night after it became clear the GOP health care bill did not have enough votes to pass . Sen. Susan Collins said she would not vote on a motion to proceed, NBC reported Tuesday.
An extended family that lost nine people to a roaring flash flood in an Arizona canyon was a tight-knit group that gathered in big numbers for nearly every occasion. An extended family that lost nine people to a roaring flash flood in an Arizona canyon was a tight-knit group that gathered in big numbers for nearly every occasion.
An extended family that lost nine people to a roaring flash flood in an Arizona canyon was a tight-knit group that gathered in big numbers for nearly every occasion. Federal records show former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert has been released from prison in Minnesota and transferred to a Chicago re-entry facility.
An extended family that lost nine people to a roaring flash flood in an Arizona canyon was a tight-knit group that gathered in big numbers for nearly every occasion. Federal records show former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert has been released from prison in Minnesota and transferred to a Chicago re-entry facility.
The latest Republican effort to repeal "Obamacare" was fatally wounded when two more party senators announced their opposition to legislation strongly backed by President Donald Trump. The announcements from senators Mike Lee of Utah and Jerry Moran of Kansas left the Republican Party's long-promised efforts to get rid of President Barack Obama's health care legislation reeling.
House Republicans have unveiled a 10-year budget blueprint that would dramatically increase military spending while putting the GOP on record favoring Medicare cuts opposed by President Donald Trump. The GOP plan, authored by Budget Committee Chairman Diane Black, would also pave the way for overhauling the U.S. tax code, and would pair that effort with cuts to benefit programs such as food stamps.
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell speaks during a media briefing on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S. April 25, 2017. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives took a first step toward tax reform on Tuesday, with the release of a fiscal 2018 budget plan that would allow a tax reform package to pass the U.S. Congress without support from Democrats.
Nestle Executive Michael Kotick is entering the race to unseat Rep. Dana Rohrabacher in Orange County's 48th Congressional District. He has a bachelor's in economics and an MBA from Michigan State University and earned a masters in global management at Arizona State University's Thunderbird School of Global Management.
The implosion of the Senate Republican health care bill leaves a divided GOP with its flagship legislative priority in tatters. And it confronts a wounded President Donald Trump and congressional leaders with difficult decisions about addressing their seven-year-old promise of repealing President Barack Obama's law.
Rep. Jim Banks, R-3rd, said Monday that his proposal to place Veterans Affairs counselors at colleges and universities has been included in legislation that would expand benefits of the GI Bill.
President Donald Trump and White House officials have had a series of conversations with prospective Republican candidates about challenging Arizona GOP Sen. Jeff Flake in the 2018 primary. Kelli Ward, who has already launched her campaign, and Robert Graham, a former state GOP chair and Trump adviser who is considering it, both told CNN on Monday they have had multiple conversations with White House officials about opposing Flake in the Senate primary.
Protesters against the Republican health care bill gather inside the office of Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, July 17, 2017.
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell conceded failure on Monday in efforts to repeal and replace former President Barack Obama's signature legislation, also known as the Obamacare. "Regretfully, it is now apparent that the effort to repeal and immediately replace the failure of Obamacare will not be successful," McConnell said in a statement late Monday night.
Two more Republican senators announced opposition to the GOP health care bill Monday, in another blow to the Republican efforts to repeal and replace former President Barack Obama's signature legislation. Republican Senator Jerry Moran of Kansas and Mike Lee of Utah issued separate statements late Monday, saying the long-sought Republican health care plan will not have their support.
Attorneys for Kansas will try to convince an often skeptical state Supreme Court on Tuesday that the funding increase legislators approved for public schools this year is enough to provide a suitable education for kids statewide. The high court is hearing arguments about a new law that phases in a $293 million increase in education funding over two years.