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A third Republican senator angrily indicated Monday he might oppose his party's health care bill in an upcoming showdown vote, a threat that could doom one of the GOP's top priorities to a humiliating, self-inflicted defeat. Sen. Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican, said moderate GOP senators "basically confirmed" to him that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., assured them last week that Medicaid cuts planned by the legislation would "never happen" because they are too far in the future.
Protesters again took to Capitol Hill on Monday to protest Senate Republicans' proposed health care bill, staging a demonstration in the Hart Senate Office Building, where several people were reportedly arrested. Demonstrators there urged Republican senators to vote against the bill, which would dismantle key portions of the Affordable Care Act and cause millions of people to lose their health care coverage, largely due to cuts to Medicaid.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell introduced a new health coverage overhaul bill today, but the Washington Post reports that doubts remain whether he has sufficient Republican votes to pass it. The situation is complicated by a competing bill from two Republican senators.
Senate Republicans are still moving ahead with a vote on their health care bill next week, but barring some sudden changes of hearts, it looks like they will fall short of the votes - and no one seems to have a real idea of what to do then. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is expected to release the text of a revised bill Thursday, along with an amendment drafted by Sen. Ted Cruz that would dramatically undermine protections for people with pre-existing conditions in the name of lowering costs for healthy people.
The Nevada Independent reported Thursday that Rosen, a software developer whose only elective experience prior to her successful congressional run last year was as president of Ner Tamid, a Reform synagogue in suburban Las Vegas, was talked into running by former Sen. Harry Reid, who believes she is the likeliest challenger to unseat Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev. "He told me to think about it and that's what I did when I came home to talk to my husband," Rosen, 59, said, describing the conversation she had with Reid in May. She cast her decision in terms of "tikkun olam," a Talmudic principle meaning "repair the world" which has become commonplace among American Jewish liberals.
The state needs "a senator they can trust to be an independent voice standing up to President Trump, not his enabler," she says. Democratic Rep. Jacky Rosen, a former software programmer and synagogue president, announced on Thursday that she will seek the Senate seat now held by Dean Heller, who political analysts rate as the chamber's most vulnerable Republican in the 2018 campaign.
Heller caught between distrustful left and angry right - Dean Heller is dead, one in a series: - One week after I entombed him, dirges for the Nevada's senior senator are still playing. I use the plural because this is a cacophonous symphony, with one mournful melody from the left
"Senate Republican leaders know that chances of passing their health bill are slim, that they depend on preserving some Obamacare tax hikes, and that they probably require flipping the vote of vulnerable Nevada Sen. Dean Heller ," according to John Harwood . "Those assessments, from a GOP strategist familiar with Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's thinking, show how narrow a path awaits Senate Republicans when they return July 10 after a holiday week off.
A U.S. Senate proposal to replace Obamacare would cut spending on government Medicaid for the poor by 35 percent come 2036, a non-partisan congressional research office said on Thursday, further complicating Republican efforts to forge a deal. The Congressional Budget Office report, requested by Senate Democrats, provides a longer-term look at how the Republican plan would affect Medicaid spending as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell searches for a formula to win over the conservative and moderate elements of his Republican caucus.
We now have the answer to a question that has hung in the air for months: Why did the Republican leadership not have an Obamacare repeal-and-replace plan on the shelf and ready to go the minute the election went their way? Why didn't they use the time since the law's 2010 passage to craft the Republican alternative? The charitable answer would be: ... (more)
Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., during a press conference where he announced he will vote no on the proposed GOP healthcare bill at the Grant Sawyer State Office Building on Friday, June 23, 2017 in Las Vegas. People enter the south portal of Yucca Mountain during a 2015 congressional tour of the proposed radioactive waste dump near Mercury, Nev., 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
A central figure in the Senate effort to repeal and replace Obamacare - Republican Sen. Dean Heller of Nevada - said Wednesday that he does not see a compromise on that legislation that could muster a GOP consensus by week's end.
Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events Sen. Dean Heller at a Las Vegas news conference June 23 where he announced he will vote against the proposed GOP health-care bill When Sen. Dean Heller came out in opposition to the health-care legislation last week, it was a surprise that, in hindsight, shouldn't have been a surprise. Heller is an extreme version of the five to six senators who just politically can't vote for the bill, mostly because they fear it will yank away health care for hundreds of thousands in their respective states.
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, left, and Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-... . Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., left, and Senate Majority Whip Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas speak with the media after they and other Senate Republicans had a meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House, ... .
Democrats to 'crank up the outrage' over Senate Republican health care bill over July 4 break Democrats have big plans for their July 4 break: Highlighting who could lose health care under the bill. Check out this story on scsun-news.com: https://usat.ly/2tZojlP A new USA TODAY/Suffolk University poll shows low support among Americans for the GOP healthcare bill.
President Donald Trump says he is a master of the "art of the deal," but does he need to be as close as possible to those he is trying to strike a deal with? Republican senators gathered at the White House on Tuesday afternoon for an impromptu meeting with the President after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he would be postponing the vote on the health care bill until after the July 4 recess. Eight Republican senators have said they will not vote for the bill and many of those opposing the current version were at the meeting.
Yellow stone County Dis trict Judge Rus sell Fagg formed an exploratory committee to challenge Sen. Jon Tester in Montana. Fagg recently announced he'd be retiring from the court.
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What's next on health care now that the Senate has punted? Senate Republicans have gone back to the drawing board to get an Obamacare repeal bill they can pass. Check out this story on demingheadlight.com: https://usat.ly/2tl885x Less than a week after Senate Republicans unveiled their version of the American Health Care Act, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said a vote on it has been pushed back until after July 4. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., tells reporters he is delaying a vote on the Republican health care bill on June 27, 2017.
In a bruising setback, Senate Republican leaders shelved a vote on their prized health care bill Tuesday until at least next month, forced to retreat by a GOP rebellion that left them lacking enough votes to even begin debate. "We will not be on the bill this week," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told reporters in what was a remarkable reversal of plans to push one of President Donald Trump's and the GOP's top priorities through the chamber this week.