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What a week! After a health care bill nearly dies due to Capital malfeasance and White House neglect, Donald Trump finally discovers his inner president and bully pulpits the Keystone Kongress back to work.
After the Senate Thursday night narrowly rejected his ham-handed efforts to ram through an Obamacare repeal that the health care industry, the insurance industry, most governors and the American people did not want, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell finally got something right. "It's time to move on," he said.
Robert Azzi I remember when, in 1999, not long before his landslide primary win in New Hampshire over George W. Bush, Sen. John McCain was waiting to speak to a public gathering in Phillips Exeter Academy's Assembly Hall. He was signing some autographs in the Latin Study and I asked him to sign a book for my daughter.
Strong arguments can be made for removing Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis. After all, their leadership has sent the GOP into a death spiral - bad ideas and silly stunts chase out reasonable compromise and responsible action.
Donald Trump had his worst day since he was elected president - we'll just call it Friday - and his worst week since the last one. Things can only get worser and worser, as the Bard would permit me to say.
Heroism recalled 50 years after deadly fire aboard USS Forrestal The inferno aboard the Forrestal off the coast of Vietnam killed 134 men on July 29, 1967. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://usat.ly/2vhKHuH The crowd watches footage of the fire aboard the USS Forrestal in 1967 during the 50th anniversary commemoration ceremony at the National Naval Aviation Museum on Saturday, July 29, 2017.
John McCain seemed poised to be the savior of the GOP health bill when he returned to the Capitol despite a brain cancer diagnosis. The longtime Arizona senator stunned pretty much everyone Friday by turning on his party and his president and joining two other GOP senators in voting "no" on the Republicans' final effort to repeal "Obamacare."
Weary Republicans in Washington may be ready to move on, but conservatives across the country are warning that the GOP-led Congress cannot abandon its pledge to repeal "Obamacare" without triggering a political nightmare in next year's midterm elections. NEW YORK>> Weary Republicans in Washington may be ready to move on from health care, but conservatives across the United States are warning the GOP-led Congress not to abandon its pledge to repeal the Obama-era health law - or risk a political nightmare in next year's elections.
By Simon Haeder, Assistant Professor of Political Science, West Virginia University. Sen. John McCain cast the pivotal vote to nix the Senate version of a bill to repeal Obamacare, only days after returning to Washington after surgery.
Donald Trump will sign a package of stiff financial sanctions against Russia which bar him from easing the penalties, the White House has said. Donald Trump will sign a package of stiff financial sanctions against Russia which bar him from easing the penalties, the White House has said.
President Donald Trump will sign a package of stiff financial sanctions against Russia that passed Congress with overwhelming support, the White House said Friday. Moscow has already responded, ordering a reduction in the number of U.S. diplomats in Russia and closing the U.S. Embassy's recreation retreat.
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, was one of three Republicans to reject the 'skinny repeal' plan. Melina Mara/The Washington Post Hundreds of people stood outside the U.S. Capitol Thursday, to protest the Republican health care bill as the Senate worked overnight on the legislation.
Ousted Priebus insists he RESIGNED because Trump wanted to 'take new direction' amid reports President was unhappy that he didn't 'return fire' at Scaramucci after THAT explosive interview REVEALED: One-in-400million disability becomes COMMON in tiny polygamist Mormon town Hilldale where sufferers can't sit or stand without help after generations of inbreeding Kim Jong-Un issues 'stern warning' to America after successful test of ICBM that experts claim can hit CHICAGO - prompting joint exercise between US and South Korean forces Private school boy, 16, 'sexually assaulted at least five female classmates across the campus for a year and choked one because she wouldn't have sex with him' The REAL reason Scaramucci hates Priebus: Trump's new darling of the White House 'never forgave ousted Chief of Staff for scuppering his chances of joining the transition team' as he now gets last laugh ... (more)
President Donald Trump says Congress should have approved legislation to repeal the Obama-era health law after working on it for seven years. But he says "you can't have everything."
Sen. John McCain sent shockwaves through the Senate early Friday morning when he cast the deciding vote rejecting the GOP's heath care effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. While his dramatic thumbs-down rejection drew gasps and cheers in Washington, D.C., leaders in Arizona have responded with a mixture of disappointment and frustration - but little in the way of direct criticism in this Republican-heavy state.
Sen. John McCain, recently diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer, is returning to Arizona to begin radiation and chemotherapy. In a statement Friday, his office said he will undergo further treatment at the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix while maintaining his work schedule.
There's a reason why Sen. John McCain was eager to pivot to the annual defense spending bill in the early hours of the morning right after he had killed the Senate's Obamacare repeal effort: The Arizona Republican's office announced McCain is planning to return to his home state to start cancer treatment Monday. That may also help explain why Majority Leader Mitch McConnell appeared willing to let McCain try to proceed to the the National Defense Authorization Act, even after he thwarted the GOP's plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act in the early hours of Friday morning.
Shortly before Sen. John McCain entered the Senate chamber in the wee hours of Friday morning, reporters wanted to know how he'd vote. McCain killed his party's narrowly-crafted Obamacare repeal bill Friday not because he was opposed to dismantling the Affordable Care Act, but because he fundamentally believed the process -- the lack of hearings, the one-party, closed-door negotiations, the fact that in the end all that Republican senators could agree upon was a shell of the plan they'd promised -- was flawed.
Sen. John McCain, recently diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer, is returning to Arizona to begin radiation and chemotherapy. In a statement Friday, his office said he will undergo further treatment at the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix while maintaining his work schedule.
Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, is pursued by reporters early today after casting a "no" vote on a measure to repeal parts of former President Barack Obama's health care law, on Capitol Hill in Washington. [CLIFF OWEN/ASSOCIATED PRESS] Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, is pursued by reporters early today after casting a "no" vote on a measure to repeal parts of former President Barack Obama's health care law, on Capitol Hill in Washington.