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Low-income Americans may have to prioritize purchasing health care coverage over gadgets such as iPhones under Republicans' Obamacare replacement plan, House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz said Tuesday. The Utah lawmaker told CNN's Alisyn Camerota on "New Day" that he wants low-income Americans to be able to have more access to health coverage.
On March 7, 1965, a march by peaceful civil rights demonstrators turned violent when the group was attacked on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala. According to history.com, "Although Wallace ordered state troopers 'to use whatever measures are necessary to prevent a march,' approximately 600 voting rights advocates set out from the Brown Chapel AME Church on Sunday, March 7. King, who had met with President Lyndon Johnson two days earlier to discuss voting rights legislation, remained back in Atlanta with his own congregation and planned to join the marchers en route the following day.
Long-awaited legislation to dismantle Obamacare was unwrapped on Monday by U.S. Republicans, who called for ending health insurance mandates and rolling back extra healthcare funding for the poor in a package that drew immediate fire from Democrats. In a battle waged since the 2010 passage of the Affordable Care Act, Democratic President Barack Obama's signature domestic policy achievement, Republicans including President Donald Trump have long vowed to repeal and replace the law.
Authorities said a Sikh man... . A man bows his head as he attends Sunday services at the Gurudwara Singh Sabha of Washington, a Sikh temple in Renton, Wash., Sunday, March 5, 2017, south of Seattle.
House Republicans unveiled on Monday their long-awaited plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, scrapping the mandate for most Americans to have health insurance in favor of a new system of tax credits to induce people to buy insurance on the open market. The bill sets the stage for a bitter debate over the possible dismantling of the most significant health care law in a half-century.
Might Republicans make job-based health insurance taxable? And how can you fight an insurance denial for lung-cancer screening? Also, can pharmacists prescribe drugs? Here are answers to some recent questions from readers. Q: I've heard that Republicans plan to change the system so that I'd have to pay income taxes on my health insurance benefits.
Former U.S. Rep. Betty Sutton plans to jump into the 2018 governor's race Tuesday, bringing a solid track record of election wins and fundraising that could position her as the initial Democratic front-runner.
In the days after President Donald Trump's first travel ban was introduced on January 27, clients streamed into Neha Vyas' Seattle law office. Some just wanted to hear a reassuring voice.
Former U.S. Rep. Betty Sutton planned to jump into the 2018 governor's race Tuesday, bringing a solid track record of election wins and fundraising that could position her as the initial Democratic front-runner. The 53-year-old lawyer from Barberton served three terms in Congress and eight years in the state Legislature, where she was the youngest woman ever elected at age 29. She also served on her local city and county councils.
Around the turn of the century a bandit rode in from Mexico, robbed a small Texas bank, and fled back across the border. A Texas Ranger picked up his trail and nabbed him in a Mexican village.
The day Donald Trump took office, I wrote a column arguing that what was new and frightening here was that he had no reverence for the civic and governmental institutions of this country. This had never been true of a president before, at least in the modern era.
Struggling schools, opioid addiction and the state's medical marijuana program appear likely to dominate the rest of Georgia's legislative session. The Senate last week passed SB 81, the Jeffery Dallas Gay, Jr. Act, which would allow pharmacists to dispense Naloxone, an opioid antagonist, to individuals in accordance with a statewide standing order.
Ed Oleski, president of the Teamsters Local 294 retirees, rolls up a Teamsters banner following a meeting about a proposed 31% cut to their pension plan on Monday, March, 6, 2017, at the Labor Temple in Albany, N.Y. less Ed Oleski, president of the Teamsters Local 294 retirees, rolls up a Teamsters banner following a meeting about a proposed 31% cut to their pension plan on Monday, March, 6, 2017, at the Labor Temple in Albany, ... more A trailer carries the logo for Teamsters Local 294 on Monday, March, 6, 2017, outside the Labor Temple in Albany, N.Y. They are facing a proposed 31% cut to their pension plan.
Montana Republicans have convened their meeting to pick a candidate for the U.S. House special election on May 25. Delegates from across the state spent Monday afternoon meeting with the seven people competing for the party's nomination before gathering in a Helena hotel ballroom to vote in the evening. A total of 202 delegates are voting.
An Illinois Republican congressman criticized for not holding in-person town halls says he remains opposed to them partly because of what fellow legislators have faced. U.S. Rep. Peter Roskam said at a City Club of Chicago luncheon Monday that he's held just one large town hall since entering Congress in 2007.
Just three weeks into her new job as House Budget Committee chair-and 20 months before an election that could be pivotal to her political future-Diane Black already faces a tricky balancing act. The Tennessee Republican, whose foray into leadership came unexpectedly when Tom Price was tapped for the Cabinet last January, will now oversee the budget reconciliation process expected to serve as a vehicle for both Obamacare repeal and tax reform this year.
In 2005, Les Skramstad and Gayla Benefield carried wooden crosses for each Libby resident who died from exposure to asbestos. Skramstad died of asbestos-related disease in 2007, and Benefield and four of her five children have been diagnosed with the disease.
We are researching the topic of public engagement and want to hear your views of how well your city and the county of Marin engage with you. Public engagement is a range of methods through which government agencies provide the public with more and better information about their decisions and meaningful opportunities to influence those decisions.
Democrat Congressman, Cedric Richmond in Louisiana disrespected Kellyanne Conway by making a crude 'joke' about her looking 'familiar' on her knees in reference to the picture of her kneeling on the couch in the Oval Office. Democratic Rep. Cedric Richmond made a crude joke about White House senior adviser Kellyanne Conway on Wednesday night during the Washington Press Club Foundation dinner.