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GOP moderates in the Senate are open to ending federal funding for ObamaCare's Medicaid expansion, but want a longer deadline for ending the additional funding than their leadership has proposed. Fractured Republicans weigh options Key GOP centrists open to ending Medicaid expansion Trump 'regulatory czar': Two-for-one rule can work MORE have proposed a seven-year phase out of federal funding for the Medicaid expansion, beginning in 2020 and ending in 2027.
GOP moderates in the Senate are open to ending federal funding for ObamaCare's Medicaid expansion, but want a longer deadline for ending the additional funding than their leadership has proposed. Fractured Republicans weigh options Key GOP centrists open to ending Medicaid expansion Trump 'regulatory czar': Two-for-one rule can work MORE have proposed a seven-year phase-out of federal funding for the Medicaid expansion, beginning in 2020 and ending in 2027.
If you said a 10-year-old should register for the military draft, drive a car or vote for president, people would write you off as a lunatic. Yet elected leaders and law enforcement often act as if children are no different than adults when it comes to the justice system.
In a May 16 Blog Post, I reviewed several cases dealing with the question of whether Title VII's ban on discrimination "because of . . . sex" included a ban on discrimination "because of sexual preferences."
Despite promising to release his tax returns in a televised debate with Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump continues to show that... Donald Trump has won the presidency after narrowly carrying a few states to put him above 270 electoral votes. But... High teen pregnancy rates are usually associated with lower levels of education and poverty.
No word again today from the U.S. Supreme Court on the petition for it to review an Arkansas Supreme Court decision denying equal treatment to same-sex couples in the issuance of birth certificates. Heterosexual couples are presumed to be parents in birth certificate issuance.
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt speaks to the media at the White House on June 2, 2017, about President Donald Trump's decision to exit the Paris climate agreement. CREDIT: AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt made the Sunday morning talk show rounds in an effort to defend President Donald Trump's decision to exit the Paris climate accord.
"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy -- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made." Donald Trump's chief argument for withdrawing from the Paris climate accord is that it would destroy jobs, stifle growth, cause electricity blackouts and raise energy prices to ruinous levels.
In this May 25, 2017 file photo, Republican Greg Gianforte prepares to go onstage at a hotel ballroom in Bozeman, Mont. to thank supporters after winning Montana's sole congressional seat.
An independent review ordered by Delaware's governor after a deadly inmate riot describes the state's maximum-security prison as dangerously overcrowded, critically understaffed, and poorly run and managed. According to the preliminary report, prison workers consider communication to be the top problem at James T. Vaughn Correctional Center.
In this March 8, 2017 photo, Ashley Gardner, 34, takes a dose of methadone at Counseling Solutions of Chatsworth, Ga. Gardner, a 34-year-old woman, said her addiction started in the seventh grade when she wanted to numb the pain after she was sexually assaulted.
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Yesterday evening, the Center for Medical Progress undercover footage - recorded at the 2014 and 2015 National Abortion Federation conventions - was removed from YouTube, supposedly for a violation of the site's Terms of Service agreement. A few hours later, news emerged that Judge William Orrick - the California district judge who granted NAF and Planned Parenthood's request for a preliminary injunction to prevent the release of this video footage - had ordered the CMP's lead investigator David Daleiden and his attorneys to appear at a June 14 hearing to consider holding them in contempt for releasing the footage yesterday morning.
The hysteria over President Trump's budget cuts is interesting considering that one of my main complaints is that it doesn't cut enough spending. Moreover, some big spending programs that are driving our future debt have been pretty much left untouched.
Republicans trying to dismantle former President Barack Obama's health care law have run into the same problem that bedeviled him: Quality health insurance doesn't come cheap, especially if it protects people in poor health, older adults not yet eligible for Medicare, and the poor. Now, the GOP's laser focus on lowering premiums could undermine comprehensive coverage that consumers also value, such as the current guarantees that people with medical problems can get health insurance, or that plans will cover costly conditions such as substance abuse.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker speaks at a news conference in Madison in March. Walker wants to make Wisconsin the first state in the country to require childless adults applying for Medicaid to undergo drug screening.
Arthur, nicknamed the "Houdini of Death Row" because the state had scheduled seven other execution dates, was set to die by lethal injection at 6 p.m. CT Thursday at Holman Correctional Facility at Atmore. The order didn't say specifically why it was issued.
Out in California, a farmer is facing millions of dollars in fines for plowing a field that he purchased and planting wheat. If that sentence sounds like something out of a George Orwell novel to you, you're not alone.
The health care bill Republicans recently pushed through the House would leave 23 million more Americans without insurance and confront others who have costly medical conditions with coverage that could prove unaffordable, Congress' official budget analysts said Wednesday.