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Students training to become electrical linemen attach themselves to poles during class at Los Angeles Trade-Technical College in Los Angeles on March 12, 2014. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Patrick T. Fallon.
Sens. Dean Heller, left, and Jack Reed listen at a news conference in 2014 on Capitol Hill in Washington. Heller, who could be the swing vote on his party's 2017 health care bill, is being torn between his majority leader and his governor for his decision.
President Trump is making it clear he's willing to browbeat Republican senators who don't support the healthcare bill that GOP leaders hope to vote on next week. Five Republicans have said they don't like the bill as is, and on Saturday, Trump accused the holdouts of being in the way of dismantling Obamacare.
CIA Director Mike Pompeo says he thinks disclosure of America's secret intelligence is on the rise, fueled partly by the "worship" of leakers like Edward Snowden. "In some ways, I do think it's accelerated," Pompeo told MSNBC in an interview that aired Saturday.
It's not every day that hospitals and insurers see eye to eye, but there is one thing we agree on - the government must continue to help lower the cost of health care that millions of lower-income Americans receive. The Cost Sharing Reduction payments, which have been paid on a monthly basis to insurers for the past three years, are an integral part of the Affordable Care Act .
Democrats are pushing to make the annual defense policy bill a referendum on President Trump, with plans to introduce a series of amendments as the legislation makes its way through committee. Rep. Jim Langevin will take the lead on introducing an amendment on climate change in an effort to throw Defense Secretary James Mattis's words back at the administration.
Vice President Mike Pence met privately Friday evening in Colorado with Charles Koch as a weekend summit of donors led by the billionaire industrialist convened at a time of angst and uncertainty about the early months of President Donald Trump's administration. Pence, who has long ties to Republican mega-donors Charles and David Koch, also attended an evening fund-raiser for Senator Cory Gardner of Colorado at the resort where the network will hold a three-day conclave starting Saturday.
The hot new thing from conservative tone police today is to complain that Democrats are being too mean in describing the health care bill proposed by Republicans. To recap: The bill would strip health insurance from 24 million plus Americans.
The final votes had yet to be counted when CNN cast its verdict on Georgia's hotly contested special Congressional election Tuesday night. "Democrats Depressed," the network's homepage blared.
Nevada Republican Dean Heller became the fifth GOP senator to declare his opposition to the party's banner legislation to scuttle much of Barack Obama 's health care overhaul on Friday, more than enough to sink the measure and deliver a stinging rebuke to President Donald Trump unless some of them can be brought aboard. Echoing the other four, Heller said he opposes the measure "in this form" but does not rule out backing a version that is changed to his liking.
Pelosi rallies Democrats to fight Senate health bill: 'The next few days are critical' Washington Times, by Tom Howell, Jr. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi told Democrats Friday to dig up and air stories about the "devastating impact" that a GOP plan to replace Obamacare could have on the most vulnerable, as Republicans try to pin down votes and fulfill their repeal promise before the July 4 holiday. "No argument against Trumpcare is more eloquent than the grave consequences it means in people's lives, especially for our children, veterans, seniors, people with pre-existing conditions and rural hospitals," the California Democrat said in a "dear colleagues" letter.
Xavier Becerra, California's combative attorney general, has become the Golden State's face of resistance to the Trump administration's domestic initiatives, the blunt voice rejecting the president's attempts to roll back the progressive immigration and environmental policies so central to California's sense of itself. At a June 16 press conference, for example, Becerra pushed back against stricter immigration enforcement, saying his office would review conditions at immigrant detention facilities in conjunction with a legislative measure that prohibits local governments from renting out jail beds to U.S. Immigration and Customs.
After James Hodgkinson shot Republican congressman Steve Scalise and four other people at the Republican congressional baseball team practice last week in Virginia, it did not take long for right-wingers to start blaming the left. Hodgkinson, who had an anger management problem and a history of violence - yet no trouble getting his hands on an assault rifle and handgun - had also been a supporter of Bernie Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign, which was more than enough for partisans on the right to denounce the entire left for violence.
A Republican senator is building support to change budget rules in order to make temporary tax cuts last for two decades or more, but he has yet to convince a critical figure -- House Speaker Paul Ryan. Ryan says he wants permanent tax cuts, a goal he repeated this week in response to questions about Senator Pat Toomey's proposal to relax time limits on any cuts that would increase the federal deficit.
The proposed Republican health care bill released by Senate leadership this week will "kill Massachusetts" without addressing any of the real flaws in Obamacare, Congressman Stephen Lynch said yesterday. "The two plans I've seen so far, they don't reduce the cost of health care, unfortunately," Lynch said during an appearance on Boston Herald Radio's "Morning Meeting" program, referring to the GOP plans passed by the House and proposed in the Senate.
With Ralph Norman's victory in Tuesday's special election for the U.S. House of Representatives District 5 seat, the Republican Party is now four for four. Since April, there have been four special elections for seats in the U.S. House of Representatives left vacant after the Republican incumbents were appointed to positions in the Trump administration.
Lawmakers, branches of the armed forces and federal departments populated their Twitter timelines Friday with pooch pics in honor of Take Your Dog to Work Day, also referred to as Bring Your Dog to Work Day. The day was created in 1999 by Pet Sitters International, a North Carolina-based educational association for professional pet sitters, to encourage business owners to allow dogs in the workplace.
The state's port at Burns Harbor in Portage provides shippers with ocean access through the Great Lakes and handles cargo that includes iron, steel, grain, chemicals, fertilizers, limestone, coal and more.
The White House said in a letter on Friday that a tweet by President Donald Trump on Thursday was the formal answer to a request by the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee for information about records of conversations with fired FBI Director James Comey. The letter to Republican Representative Mike Conaway, who is leading the panel's investigation into Russian interference to the 2016 election, and Representative Adam Schiff, the committee's top Democrat, said: "In response to the committee's inquiry, we refer you to President Trump's June 22, 2017, statement regarding this matter."
Mitch McConnell Trump called Cruz to press him on ObamaCare repeal bill: report Meadows: Senate bill lacks conservative support to pass House Fifth GOP senator announces opposition to healthcare bill MORE to get the 50 votes needed to pass the Senate GOP bill to repeal ObamaCare, according to a new report. "Currently, for a variety of reasons, we are not ready to vote for this bill, but we are open to negotiation and obtaining more information before it is brought to the floor," the statement said.