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Some governors, including Republicans, are unhappy with a GOP proposal to replace former President Barack Obama's health care law and say they will work on their own legislation to compete with the House bill introduced Monday. A sampling of their comments: "We want to make sure that we continue to be a state where virtually everybody is covered and people feel they have the access they need and the coverage they need to stay healthy."
After appearing to project some ambivalence earlier in the day, President Trump came out strongly last night for the faltering House Republican plan to replace Obamacare. He told the group of about 20 lawmakers who will be charged with whipping up support for the legislation that he wants the Paul Ryan bill to be approved largely intact.
The youngest son of former vice presidential candidate Sen. Tim Kaine was among a group of people arrested over the weekend when a rally for President Donald Trump in Minnesota turned chaotic, according to media reports. The youngest son of former vice presidential candidate Sen. Tim Kaine was among a group of people arrested over the weekend when a rally for President Donald Trump in Minnesota turned chaotic, according to media reports.
The youngest son of U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, Hillary Clinton's running mate in her 2016 presidential bid, was one of six people arrested during a counter protest at a rally in support of President Donald Trump in Minnesota. The protesters clashed with hundreds of Trump supporters gathered at the State Capitol rotunda in St. Paul last Saturday, a scene that played out during rallies in other cities around the country.
Over the strong objections of key conservatives and Democrats, House Republican leaders are forging ahead with a health care plan that scraps major parts of the Obama-era overhaul. The House Ways and Means Committee and the Energy and Commerce Committee intended to convene what were expected to be marathon sessions today to start voting on the legislation.
Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., left, accompanied by, from second from left, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Tx., and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaks about health care during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. . Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.
A powerful conservative backlash threatened to sink the new Republican health care bill Tuesday less than 24 hours after its launch, even as President Donald Trump and congressional leaders began trying to sell the legislation as the long-promised GOP cure for "Obamacare." "We're going to do something that's great and I'm proud to support the replacement plan released by the House of Representatives," Trump declared at the White House as he met Tuesday with the House GOP vote-counting team.
Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin says Congress needs to act quickly to extend a program aimed at widening veterans' access to private-sector health care, pointing to a growing demand for medical treatment outside the Department of Veterans Affairs. Shulkin also pledged additional efforts by his agency to combat suicide, saying he wanted to expand mental health care to former service members who receive "other than honorable discharges" from the military, typically for behavior problems such as violence or use of illegal drugs.
Vice President Mike Pence will continue his healthcare road show on Saturday here in Louisville. But, unlike past events, the vice president comes armed with a health care plan to sell.
Son of Sen. Tim Kaine one of six arrested after protesters disrupt Trump rally at state Capitol Saturday - The youngest son of U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, Hillary Clinton's 2016 running mate, was one of six people arrested Saturday after counter-protesters disrupted a rally in support of President Donald Trump at the Minnesota State Capitol.
Some key dates in the disappearance of Robert Levinson, a former FBI agent who vanished while in Iran on an unauthorized CIA mission: March 9, 2007 - Levinson is detained by suspected Iranian security agents in the lobby of his hotel on Kish Island, Iran, a Persian Gulf resort area and free-trade zone for which no Iranian visa is required. April 2007 - Levinson's disappearance becomes public knowledge as the U.S. tries to ask Iran for information.
Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., on Tuesday called on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee to clarify an answer he gave during his confirmation hearing in January about possible meetings with Russians. "It's hard to come to any other conclusion that he just perjured himself," Franken told CNN, recalling the hearing.
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The Salt Lake Tribune) Utah Senator Mike Lee speaks at A Newsmaker Breakfast,A a monthly event highlighting current issues impacting the State of Utah in Salt Lake City Wednesday November 9. The Salt Lake Tribune) Utah Senator Mike Lee speaks at A Newsmaker Breakfast,A a monthly event highlighting current issues impacting the State of Utah in Salt Lake City Wednesday November 9. Utah Republican says the plan is too similar to Obama's law, may part ways with Trump and Hatch and join the Democrats in voting against it.
What I mean is that the GOP is having to make compromises because the existing program, for all its flaws, is in purely political terms very hard to unravel. What's more, President Trump said during the campaign that he liked parts of ObamaCare, singling out the ban on refusing people with preexisting conditions and allowing parents to keep their kids on their policies until age 26. So the GOP is trying to navigate a narrow path that is far more treacherous than six years of just calling for repeal.
CHICAGO, March 7 The strain of bird flu that infected a chicken farm in Tennessee in recent days shares the same name as a form of the virus that has killed humans in China, but is genetically distinct from it, U.S. authorities said on Tuesday.
New Mexico's health care sector and policy makers were warily studying a proposal Tuesday by U.S. House Republicans to replace the Affordable Care Act that has cut the state's uninsured rate in half since 2013. Of particular concern were measures to reduce federal matching funds for newcomers to Medicaid health coverage starting in mid-2019, and link overall federal spending on Medicaid to a limited, per-beneficiary amount.
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that "I feel sure that my friend," longtime Obamacare critic Sen. Rand Paul, will support to Republican legislation introduced Monday to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. I feel sure that my friend @RandPaul will come along with the new and great health care program because he knows Obamacare is a disaster! Paul, the two-term Kentucky Republican, ripped the GOP plan and introduced his own bill Tuesday that would repeal Obamacare outright - with plans for a replacement bill to come later.
Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski approved foreign policy adviser Carter Page's trip to Moscow last July on the condition he would not be an official campaign representative, Politico reported. Before the Russia trip during which he made a controversial speech at New Economic School in Moscow that criticized U.S. foreign policy and its Russia sanctions Page asked retired Naval officer J.D. Gordon, his supervisor on the campaign's National Security Advisory Committee, for permission to make the trip, Politico reported.
There's "a time to break down," the Bible teaches, "and a time to build up." This is the moment for both, and the moment is called "repeal and replace."