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The implosion of the Senate Republican health care bill leaves a divided GOP with its flagship legislative priority in tatters. And it confronts a wounded President Donald Trump and congressional leaders with difficult decisions about addressing their seven-year-old promise of repealing President Barack Obama's law.
President Donald Trump and White House officials have had a series of conversations with prospective Republican candidates about challenging Arizona GOP Sen. Jeff Flake in the 2018 primary. Kelli Ward, who has already launched her campaign, and Robert Graham, a former state GOP chair and Trump adviser who is considering it, both told CNN on Monday they have had multiple conversations with White House officials about opposing Flake in the Senate primary.
"After much prayer and discussion with my family, I have decided to seek re-election to the United States House of Representatives," said Hartzler. Rep. Hartzler, who was elected in 2010, is serving her fourth term in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Protesters against the Republican health care bill gather inside the office of Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, July 17, 2017.
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell conceded failure on Monday in efforts to repeal and replace former President Barack Obama's signature legislation, also known as the Obamacare. "Regretfully, it is now apparent that the effort to repeal and immediately replace the failure of Obamacare will not be successful," McConnell said in a statement late Monday night.
Two more Republican senators announced opposition to the GOP health care bill Monday, in another blow to the Republican efforts to repeal and replace former President Barack Obama's signature legislation. Republican Senator Jerry Moran of Kansas and Mike Lee of Utah issued separate statements late Monday, saying the long-sought Republican health care plan will not have their support.
Attorneys for Kansas will try to convince an often skeptical state Supreme Court on Tuesday that the funding increase legislators approved for public schools this year is enough to provide a suitable education for kids statewide. The high court is hearing arguments about a new law that phases in a $293 million increase in education funding over two years.
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.
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Nevada's Republican national committeewoman Diana Orrock on Monday seemed to cheer for the death of Sen. John McCain , retweeting a post that begged, "please just f*cking die already." "Amen," Orrock wrote in her retweet, which linked to an article focused on McCain's foreign policy positions (the post she retweeted contained the hashtag "Neocons"-a political movement that advocated for the use of military force to push a pro-democratic agenda.
Arizona Sen. John McCain is "sounding strong" as he recovers from surgery to remove a blood clot above his eye, his closest Republican colleague in the Senate said Monday. "They found the spot and it looks like everything is going to be A-OK," South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham told reporters after speaking to McCain.
Ahead of tomorrow's hearing on the "Modernization of the North American Free Trade Agreement " by the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Trade, Sage Chandler, the Consumer Technology Association's vice president of international trade, issued the following statement: "As the administration celebrates 'Made in America' week, we applaud Sens. John Thune and Ron Wyden for emphasizing the need for digital trade reforms to President Trump and Ambassador Robert Lighthizer. We hope the administration will maintain the beneficial parts of NAFTA, which has played a significant role in liberalizing trade and giving U.S. manufacturers the chance to grow their market presence in Canada and Mexico.
Two more senators have added their names to the list of "no" votes on the Republican plan to replace Obamacare, ensuring that it doesn't have enough support to pass. "We must now start fresh with an open legislative process to develop innovative solutions that provide greater personal choice, protections for pre-existing conditions, increased access and lower overall costs for Kansans," Moran said in a statement.
Republican Sens. Mike Lee and Jerry Moran said Monday evening they would not vote to advance the GOP healthcare bill, essentially killing the legislation in its current form. Lee, of Utah, and Moran, of Kansas, tweeted that they could not support the Senate's bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.
The following is a statement from David Leopold, former AILA president and attorney for Jesus Lara Lopez, ahead of Lara's scheduled deportation tomorrow morning: Mr. Jesus Lara has not received a response from the government regarding his latest request for a stay of deportation. Immigration and Customs Enforcement should not deport Jesus without meaningfully and fully responding to his stay request.
Sen. Ted Cruz, the Texas Republican who lost a hard-fought campaign for president last year, has one fundamental problem: His political ambition far outstrips his likability and political skill. In the 2016 primary, his rudeness to Senate colleagues, glaring opportunism and awkward interpersonal skills - as much as then-candidate Donald Trump - prevented him from capturing the nomination.
Liberals hate diversity and can't stand change. So they are toiling 24/7 to assure us that the Trump administration-the aberrational election of a president who is not a professional politician-is a rapidly-unraveling disaster.
Julian Senn-Raemont isn't convinced he needs to buy health insurance when he loses coverage under his dad's plan in a couple of years - no matter what happens in the policy debate in Washington, or how cheap the plans are. The 24-year-old musician hasn't known a world without a health care safety net.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he has spoken to ailing Sen. John McCain and wishes him a speedy recovery. McCain's office says the 80-year-old Arizona senator underwent surgery Friday to remove a blood clot.
The health care proposal under consideration in the U.S. Senate would be devastating to the thousands of Vermont residents who rely on the current system for care, and it has the potential to wreak havoc on the state's finances, top state and federal politicians across the political spectrum said Monday. Meeting in the Statehouse office of Republican Gov. Phil Scott, the three members of the congressional delegation and other top lawmakers from the Democratic and Republican parties said they had different opinions about the best way to fix President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act, but they agreed Vermont residents had to be protected in the process.