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Sanders and other Democrats have been slammed for their attempts to brand Republicans as being a part of the "Party of Death," calling the tax cuts in the Senate healthcare bill as "blood money" and repeatedly saying people will die due to the bill. The statements came a week after House Majority Whip Steve Scalise and three others were shot during a baseball practice in northern Virginia, and Republicans criticized that kind of rhetoric as inappropriate.
Former Sen. Rick Santorum predicted that the Republican health care bill will pass the Senate with exactly 50 votes, saying the measure has enough "core Republican doctrine" to satisfy conservatives even if moderates reject it. At least five Senate Republicans have expressed opposition the bill in its current form to repeal and replace Obamacare, but Mr. Santorum said he believes the conservatives would change their minds.
Sen. Rand Paul, one of the GOP holdouts on the Senate health care bill, said Sunday he would be willing to support a partial rollback of Obamacare, saying he might even vote for an 80 percent repeal. "If they cannot get 50 votes, if they get to impasse, I've been telling leadership for months now I'll vote for a repeal," the Kentucky Republican said on ABC's "This Week."
The White House put out the O.G. sanctimonious, lying sack of bones on today's Sunday shows to talk about the new Trumpcare / AHCA bill. Yup, Kellyanne "Gutter Trash Barbie" Conway almost made me throw up my breakfast bright and early this morning.
Vice President Mike Pence is expected to visit northeast Ohio this week for an appearance at a manufacturing company near Cleveland. An invitation sent to Republican supporters says he will visit Tendon Manufacturing, a sheet metal fabricator in Warrensville Heights, on Wednesday.
My family knows relatively little about the subject of climate change - but we have been listening and are willing to learn. Recently, our 15-year-old daughter Hannah was given the opportunity to accompany a nonprofit group to Washington, D.C. She and other volunteers from around the country lobbied members of Congress and their staff members about legislation addressing potential solutions to our changing climate.
President Trump has admitted that, as previously reported , he used the word "mean" to describe the House GOP's Trumpcare plan. In an interview with Fox and Friends ' Pete Hegseth that aired Sunday, Trump acknowledged he had used the term by way of complaining that President Obama had stolen it to describe the Senate's latest version of the plan.
If Congress can finally come to a consensus on a Social Security bill, Trump may have little choice but to sign it. According to the April statistical snapshot from the Social Security Administration , nearly 61.4 million people were receiving a monthly benefit check.
Recent guest column by U.S. Rep. Randy Weber supporting President Trump's withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement;Trump's own secretary of state, formerly Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson, argued for acceptance.When it comes to how high they price their products, drug companies want the public to ignore what they spend on marketing and the tax breaks ... (more)
Chief lieutenants in the Koch brothers' political network lashed out at the Senate Republican health care bill on Saturday as not conservative enough, becoming a powerful outside critic as GOP leaders try to rally support for their plan among rank-and-file Republicans. Tim Phillips, who leads Americans For Prosperity, the Koch network's political arm, called the Senate's plans for Medicaid "a slight nip and tuck" of President Barack Obama's health care law, a modest change he described as "immoral."
South Koreans staged a memorial rally for Otto Warmbier near the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, South Korea on Friday. The U.S. State Department urges Americans to avoid traveling to more than three dozen nations, including such troubled locales as Libya, Cameroon and Venezuela.
Rep. Jason Chaffetz is leaving Congress on June 30, he says, because he wants to spend more time with his family. "I knew from Day One that my service there would not last forever," Chaffetz said in a letter to constituents.
As growing opposition imperiled passage of the Senate version of the healthcare bill, leaders of the conservative Koch network voiced sharp criticism of the legislation at their donor retreat here -- stating that the bill needed dramatic changes before they would support it. The Koch network announced Saturday that they plan between $300 and $400 million on their political and policy objectives during the 2018 political cycle as Democrats wage an intense battle to win control of the House.
There are less than 11 months and two weeks until the 2018 New Mexico primary. And only about seven months months until filing day for statewide candidates.
Students training to become electrical linemen attach themselves to poles during class at Los Angeles Trade-Technical College in Los Angeles on March 12, 2014. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Patrick T. Fallon.
Sens. Dean Heller, left, and Jack Reed listen at a news conference in 2014 on Capitol Hill in Washington. Heller, who could be the swing vote on his party's 2017 health care bill, is being torn between his majority leader and his governor for his decision.
South Korea's presidential office Cheong Wa Dae expressed dismay Saturday over what it called "false" reports by a Japanese newspaper that suggested a possible crack in the South Korea-US alliance. The rare rejection by Cheong Wa Dae came after Japan's Asahi Shimbun reported that the US has urged South Korea to allow complete deployment of the THAAD US missile defense system here before the year's end.
His tweets have the power to shape international relations, send stock prices up - or down - and galvanize the American public. We're watching how Donald Trump is using this platform of unfettered communication now that he's commander in chief.
President Trump is making it clear he's willing to browbeat Republican senators who don't support the healthcare bill that GOP leaders hope to vote on next week. Five Republicans have said they don't like the bill as is, and on Saturday, Trump accused the holdouts of being in the way of dismantling Obamacare.
The Topeka Capital-Journal captured the Newspaper of the Year award Saturday at the Kansas City Press Club Heart of America awards program. In winning that award, The Capital-Journal staff received seven individual gold awards, five silvers, four bronzes and two honorable mentions in the contest.