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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 will convene what are expected to be marathon sessions on Wednesday to start voting on the legislation.
Republicans on a pivotal House committee scored an initial triumph in their effort to scuttle former President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, using a pre-dawn vote Thursday to abolish the tax penalty his statute imposes on people who don't purchase insurance and reshaping how millions of Americans buy medical care. Yet the Ways and Means panel's approval of health care legislation only masked deeper problems Republican backers face.
After years of haranguing Democrats for Obamacare's shortcomings and running dress rehearsals to repeal it, Republicans this week may finally lay down a specific and actionable plan to scrap the Affordable Care Act and face the praise as well as the consequences. "We're working through the final details of this," Rep. Kevin Brady, a Republican from Texas and the House Ways and Means Chairman told Fox News Saturday.
Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events Somewhere, in an undisclosed room in the U.S. Capitol, there is legislation that will ostensibly repeal and replace Obamacare. On Thursday, Sen. Rand Paul went on a high-profile, somewhat quixotic crusade to find it.
Congressional Republicans, anticipating confrontations with angry Affordable Care Act supporters during the upcoming February recess, have been given talking points by party leaders to counter and deflect the growing public rancor. House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., on Thursday provided an outline of the ACA repeal legislation that Republicans will introduce after Congress returns on Feb. 27. But former Obama administration health advisers said the document and its strategy recommendations for GOP lawmakers couldn't hide the fact that Republicans still hadn't produced a definitive plan to replace Obamacare.
House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., center, flanked by House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, left, and House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., pauses as he answers... . Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, flanked by Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, left, and Rep. John Conyers, ... .
OCTOBER 24: U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone speaks during a hearing on implementation of the Affordable Care Act before the House Energy and Commerce Committee October 24, 2013 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Developers who helped to build the website for people to buy health insurance under Obamacare testified before the panel on what had gone wrong to cause the technical difficulties in accessing the site.
BREAKING: WALDEN TO HEAD ENERGY AND COMMERCE: Rep. Greg Walden will be the next chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Reuters reported Thursday that Trump is considering her for potential spots at the helm of the Interior or Energy Departments, both of which would intersect with Heitkamp's work on energy policies in the Senate.
The Latest on the trial of a group of people who held an armed takeover of a national wildlife refuge in Oregon : Ammon Bundy finished his second day of testimony in his federal conspiracy trial, saying he led the occupation of a national wildlife refuge because people needed to take a stand against federal government overreach. Bundy said he told occupiers to bring guns, because they would otherwise be immediately arrested.
U.S. taxpayers shelled out millions of dollars for eight Republican investigations into the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, and every one concluded that then-U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton bore no direct responsibility for the attack. The Senate Intelligence Committee said initial intelligence reports did mention protests against an anti-Muslim video.
Congress won't ratify the Trans-Pacific Partnership in the foreseeable future, according to the lawmaker who leads the campaign arm of the House Republicans. "My guess is that if you put it up for a vote on the floor today, it would go down dramatically," National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Greg Walden said during an Atlantic Live breakfast at the Republican National Convention.
As the House Democrats run ads trying to tie him and other congressional Republicans to GOP's unpopular presumptive nominee, businessman Donald Trump, Garrett takes solace in the fact that the Democratic presidential candidate isn't that well-liked either. With former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also the bearer of negative approval ratings, Garrett is making sure voters in his district know that his Democratic challenger, Josh Gottheimer, wrote speeches at the White House for her husband, President Bill Clinton.