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As Kansas lawmakers look at repealing the pass-through income tax exemption for business, Gov. Sam Brownback and others doggedly stick to their assertion that it has created new business entities. They are correct, but those new businesses overwhelmingly were created to avoid taxes and resulted in little real economic growth.
Republicans are claiming a triumph by pushing their legislative centrepiece scuttling much of U.S. President Barack Obama's health care law through the House. It was a perilous journey, and its Senate pathway will be at least as bumpy with little doubt the measure will change, assuming it survives.
The legislative budget proposal includes a 2 percent pay hike over the next two years for teachers, but it may not be permanent. Are Arizona teachers getting a raise or a bonus? The legislative budget proposal includes a 2 percent pay hike over the next two years for teachers, but it may not be permanent.
Trump was ready to rip up the 23-year-old free trade deal with Canada and Mexico last week before phone calls with his counterparts from the two countries, a slew of leaders and advisers from Congress, and his own cabinet intervened to calm the president down. Now Trump says he'll "renegotiate" instead.
US President Donald Trump extracted a much-needed victory from Congress Thursday as Republicans narrowly pushed a bill through the House of Representatives repealing the landmark health reforms of his predecessor. The vote of 217-213 could hardly have been closer in the Republican-controlled chamber, highlighting the concerns of many in Trump's party who fear the bill could strip millions of Americans of their coverage and send costs skyrocketing.
Congressman Bill Huizenga spoke with FOX 17 News live early Thursday evening after casting his vote in support of the American Health Care Act. The bill is being branded as the repeal and replace of the Affordable Care Act that Republicans have been promising throughout the 2016 campaign season and beyond.
You soon might have to pay a 6.5 percent sales tax on your online shopping to help balance the state's budget. An online sales tax plan from House Democrats would bring in an estimated $340.8 million for public schools, higher education financial aid and other education-related expenditures over the next two years.
"The FBI and the Justice Department have provided me material inconsistent answers in closed setting about its reported relationship with Mr. Steele", Grassley said . Comey shocked the country when he informed Congress he was reopening the probe into Clinton's unauthorized use of a private email server as secretary of state, months after declaring the probe found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing.
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper blasted the U.S. House of Representative's passage of the American Health Care Act on Thursday, saying that the bill, "threatens to end health insurance coverage for hundreds of thousands of hard working Coloradans." Hickenlooper's lieutenant governor, former health care executive Donna Lynne, said the AHCA scrambles the state's health safety net.
After weeks of remaining tight-lipped on her stance, U.S. Rep. Elise M. Stefanik, R-Willsboro, voted in favor of the Obamacare replacement bill that passed the House of Representatives Thursday afternoon. Republicans narrowly passed the controversial bill to revise the Affordable Care Act, fulfilling a major Trump campaign promise but sending the measure on to an uncertain fate in the closely divided Senate.
In addition to being the day the House of Representatives passed an Obamacare repeal bill and the unofficial Star Wars day, Thursday was also National Orange Juice Day. It's a totally real thing promoted by the state's Department of Citrus, which you should not be surprised to hear is also a real thing.
Don't listen to the telecom lobby. Congress' vote to repeal the Federal Communications Commission's broadband privacy rules has a profound impact on your online privacy rights.
House Republicans on Thursday passed legislation aimed at repealing and replacing ObamaCare, taking a major step toward a long-held goal and setting in motion an overhaul of the nation's health system. The narrow 217-213 vote is a victory for GOP leaders, who faced a tumultuous path to getting the bill to the floor.
When the House Republican Conference gathered in Washington, D.C., on Thursday morning, it was greeted by a couple of motivational songs: "Eye of the Tiger" and "Taking Care of Business." On Twitter, the A.P.'s Erica Werner also relayed the message that the Party's leadership sent to the rank and file, which was equally lacking in subtlety: "It's time to live or die by this day."
Democrats on Thursday tore into the House GOP's vote to repeal ObamaCare, ripping their healthcare plan as a "tax cut for millionaires" and "immoral." The House narrowly passed the American Health Care Act by a 217-213 vote earlier Thursday afternoon.
WATCH: @SpeakerRyan 's full remarks in a Rose Garden press conference in the wake of GOP health care bill passing the House. pic.twitter.com/Y9SAaddhYS Paul Ryan Ryan touts passage of ObamaCare repeal at White House Snoozing GOP Congress is failing - and it can't blame Trump Dems tear into 'shameful' ObamaCare repeal vote MORE touted the passage of a House measure to repeal and replace ObamaCare on Thursday, but warned that there is still work to be done.
When you go to the polls in the fall of 2018, if your incumbent is a Republican congressmen, here is what you now know what they do and don't care about: Hours before a scheduled vote on a Republican bill that would repeal and replace major parts of Obamacare, a GOP congressman suggested that neither he - nor anyone else - has actually read the entire bill. But Rep. Thomas Garrett of Virginia said his "staff" had read all of the parts of the bill - which he plans to vote for.
The Obamacare repeal bill that passed the House Thursday moves next to the Senate where it faces daunting challenges because of the same ideological splits between conservative and moderate Republicans that nearly killed it in the House. GOP leaders have set up a working group of senators across the ideological spectrum to try search for compromises that could unite enough Republicans to get the 51 votes needed for it to clear the chamber.
All seven Hoosier Republicans in the U.S. House voted Thursday in favor of repealing the Affordable Care Act and replacing it with the American Health Care Act.