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Republican lawmakers are moving ahead to undo a rule that would make it easier for Americans to sue their banks and credit card companies. Senate and House lawmakers on Thursday separately unveiled bills that each proposes to overturn a recent rule by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which blocks companies from using arbitration clauses to stop consumers from bringing class action lawsuits.
U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski Wednesday questioned Medicare's top fraud prevention official about how safeguards failed to prevent a doctor in Indiana from prescribing more than $1 million in opioids to 108 patients under Medicare's prescription drug program.
A revised Republican health care bill would drive up the number of uninsured Americans by 22 million by 2026, the Congressional Budget Office estimated Thursday in a report unlikely to help GOP leaders persuade their party's senators to back the reeling legislation in an upcoming showdown vote. An earlier projection by Congress' nonpartisan budget analysts on the initial version of the GOP legislation projected the same number of people losing coverage.
Who else spends money at President Trump's properties? Other GOP politicians are hosting events at their president's properties Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://usat.ly/2vGdwgo More than $216,000 has flowed to an array of Trump properties from other political committees since the start of last year, according to a USA TODAY tally of campaign reports. Not surprisingly, the Republican National Committee leads the pack - spending more than $149,000, much of it at the Trump International Hotel in Washington.
Deedra Abboud is a Muslim-American woman who plans to challenge Republican Sen. Jeff Flake next year when he's running for re-election in Arizona. Despite Donald Trump's hopefully disastrous effect on the GOP next year, she still has an uphill battle in several ways.
Rep. Joaquin Castro said Wednesday that the circumstances of the second meeting between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit earlier this month are "not normal." A senior White House official told CNN the discussion -- which was not disclosed at the time -- lasted "nearly an hour."
Senator John McCain, a two-time winner of the New Hampshire Primary, and the 2008 Republican presidential nominee known for political independence during more than three decades in the Senate, has... Mentors aren't hard to come by in professional baseball.
Donald Trump is taking the heat for the implosion of the Senate health care bill, which is what happens when you're president and your party controls both houses of Congress. But there is another Republican who is getting pummeled in the press.
Rep. Adam Schiff, ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, shot back at President Trump for suggesting Wednesday that he would be resistant to special counsel Robert Mueller's investigating his personal finances as part of the Russia probe. "Mueller has authority to investigate any ties Trump family has to Russia, including financial, and anything that arises," Schiff, D-Calif., tweeted.
The 35th-annual Upper Ohio Valley Italian Heritage Festival officially kicked off on Wednesday at the McLure Hotel in Wheeling as nearly 200 festival supporters gathered for a dinner to honor the 2017 Italian-American of the Year, former Ohio Sen. Lou Gentile. Gentile was introduced by former U.S. Rep. Zack Space, who is currently running as a Democrat for Ohio auditor.
North Coast Rep. Jared Huffman is making moves on the environmental front, candidly speaking out against the White House's initiatives regarding public lands and energy, as well as recent actions by U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke. Huffman has wholeheartedly taken up climate change as a platform issue, introducing two pieces of legislation on energy policy and joining three other members of Congress on climate legislation that seeks to get the U.S. on 100 percent clean and renewable energy by 2050, named the 100 by '50 Act.
President Donald Trump blasted congressional Democrats and "a few Republicans" Tuesday over the collapse of the GOP effort to rewrite the Obama health care law, and warned, "We will return."
Lecturing fellow Republicans, President Donald Trump summoned GOP senators to the White House Wednesday and told them face-to-face they must not leave town for their August recess without sending him an "Obamacare" repeal bill to sign. Senators responded by vowing to revive legislative efforts left for dead twice already this week.
U.S. Capitol Police say they've arrested around 155 demonstrators in Senate office buildings as Republicans continue working on legislation to eliminate much of President Barack Obama's health care law. Arrests of demonstrators opposing the GOP effort have been occurring frequently.
President Donald Trump said Tuesday : "I think we're probably in that position where we'll just let Obamacare fail." He said: "We can repeal but we should repeal and replace, and we shouldn't leave town until this is complete."
Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events Sen. Susan Collins arrives ahead of President Trump's first address before a joint session of Congress, on Feb. 28 at the U.S. Capitol. Both Democrats sincerely concerned about the viability of a sane, two-party system and #NeverTrump Republicans horrified at what's become of their once-admirable party have been pondering since Election Day how - or if - the GOP can free itself from President Trump's grip.