Schuette, grasping for duty
You might think the mere idea that we might elect pandering career politician and current Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette governor next year is hard to believe. He's one of the most shopworn items in Lansing.
Category Archives: US Senate
Strange days: Trump-backed candidate loses Alabama primary to firebrand conservative
A United States Senate primary run-off election in the deep red Republican state of Alabama would not, in normal times, be a big deal. This vote was to decide the Republican candidate for the Senate seat left open by the appointment of Jeff Sessions as US President Donald Trump's Attorney-General.
Trump suddenly focuses on Puerto Rico
After not mentioning hurricane-devastated island for days, Trump on Tuesday pushed back aggressively and repeatedly against criticism that he had failed to quickly grasp the magnitude of Maria's destruction or give the U.S. commonwealth the top-priority treatment he had bestowed on Texas, Louisiana and Florida after previous storms.
‘Obamacare’ survives as GOP scraps vote
Senate Republicans, short of votes, abandoned their latest and possibly final attempt to kill the health care law Tuesday, just ahead of a critical end-of-the-week deadline.
Free Bariatric Seminars Hosted By CHI Memorial Metabolic And Bariatric Care
Jaime Ponce, M.D. and CHI Memorial Metabolic and Bariatric Care will host free seminars in October on surgical and non-surgical weight loss options.
Time for Republicans to accept reality
WITH ONE more repeal-and-replace effort in flames, Republicans face a choice. They can continue to live in a fantasy world in which it is possible simultaneously to uproot Obamacare, slash federal spending on health care and widen health-care coverage.
We’re running out of time on tax reform
Looks like another week of debacles for the nation's amateur president and the GOP leaders whose bus he hijacked last year. Bid No.
GOP Dives Into Tax Reform With Key Questions Unresolved
House Speaker Paul Ryan, joined by Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, speaks following a closed-door Republican strategy session at Republican National Committee headquarters on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. Having spent years setting the stage for an ambitious bill, Republican tax writers are finally ready to go public with a plan-even as they face a minefield of competing interest groups and unresolved differences within their own party.
Republicans Left With Few Good Options on Health Care
GOP leaders could revive repeal legislation again-but potentially imperil tax reform-or move toward bipartisan talks to stabilize Obamacare. Sen. Lindsey Graham , joined by Sens. John Barrasso and Bill Cassidy, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, talked to reporters Tuesday as they faced assured defeat on the Graham-Cassidy bill, the GOP's latest attempt to repeal the Obama health care law.
Obamacare’ survives; GOP concedes on last-gasp repeal try
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., flanked by Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., left, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., right, speaks to reporters as they faced assured defeat on the Graham-Cassidy bill, the GOP's latest attempt to repeal the Obama health care law, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2017.
Dunford: North Korea’s Ability to Target US With Nuclear-Tipped ICBM ‘A Very Short Time’ Away
Images released by the North Korean regime early this month show new postage stamps issued to celebrate its intercontinental ballistic missile tests in July. Whether it's three, six or eighteen months, North Korea's capability to reach the United States with a nuclear-tipped ballistic missile is only "a matter of a very short time" away, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Marine Gen.
Hillary Clinton blames many things for her loss; George Clooney…
It was never exactly a shock that George Clooney - a lifelong Democrat, and about as Hollywood as they come - would endorse Hillary Clinton for president. But it wasn't a given, either.
AG: States must resist Trump’s new “federalism”
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Janet Yellen Speaks, Stock Market Listens: Live Markets Blog
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is looking to break a three-session losing streak Tuesday, rising 0.15% in the minutes following the opening bell. The S&P 500 was also looking to rebound from a down day of trading, rising 0.16%.
Republican leaders: Senate wona t vote on Obamacare repeal
Facing assured defeat, Republican leaders decided Tuesday not to even hold a vote on the GOP's latest attempt to repeal the Obama health care law, surrendering on their last-gasp effort to deliver on the party's banner campaign promise. Leaving a lunch of Republican senators who'd gathered to discuss their next steps on the issue, Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and other leaders decided that "the votes are not there, not to have the vote."
Republican leaders: Senate won’t vote on Obamacare repeal
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., arrives at the Capitol for a weekly Republican policy meeting, in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2017, amid the diminishing, last-ditch GOP push to overhaul the nation's health care system.
US won’t cut Florida Ponzi schemer’s prison sentence
The former Florida lawyer convicted of orchestrating a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme likely won't be getting out of prison early after prosecutors sought to withdraw an offer to cut his sentence. Court documents filed Tuesday show that prosecutors have concluded that Scott Rothstein failed to comply with terms of his plea agreement by providing false information to the government.
‘We don’t have the votes’: GOPa
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham speaks as Sen. Roy Blunt. Sen. John Barrasso, Senate Majority Whip Sen. John Cornyn, Sen. Bill Cassidy, and Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell listen during a news briefing at the Capitol September 19, 2017 Senate leaders have given up on the latest Republican push to repeal and replace President Barack Obama's health care law.
Senate GOP leaders decide not to hold vote on last-ditch Obamacare repeal
Senate Republican leaders have decided not to bring their last-ditch Obamacare repeal bill, known as Graham-Cassidy, to the floor this week, for now killing their seven-year effort to dismantle the 2010 health care law. "We don't have the votes," said Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, one of the co-authors of the bill, at a press conference following a closed-door Senate GOP Conference lunch.
Data Show Media Hype Over Irma Generated Enormous Public Attention
Media reports prior to Irma's arrival painted the massive storm as perhaps one of the most powerful and destructive hurricanes to ever make landfall in the U.S. Data from Google show that interest from the U.S. about Hurricane Maria was substantially less than during both Harvey and Irma. The data, which calculated the number of times people searched for specific terms related to the storms, excludes interest generated from people living in Puerto Rico.