Editor Brian Harrod Provides Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, with aggregated news from sources all over the world from the Roundup Newswires Network
Maria Torres, president of the WSU Tri-Cities Dreamers Club, poses for a photo with Washington Attorney General Bob Fergusonon Monday after speaking about her trip to Washington, D.C., with a delegation of other DACA students about the status of the program. Watch a video at tricityherald.com/video Maria Torres, president of the WSU Tri-Cities Dreamers Club, poses for a photo with Washington Attorney General Bob Fergusonon Monday after speaking about her trip to Washington, D.C., with a delegation of other DACA students about the status of the program.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, July 28, 2017, after the Republican-controlled Senate was unable to fulfill their political promise to repeal and replace "Obamacare." WASHINGTON -- Frustrated by Republican inaction on health care, President Donald Trump tweeted Saturday that he had reached out to the Senate Democratic leader in hopes of brokering a deal for a "great HealthCare Bill."
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York, followed by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., looks at a poster at the start of a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2017, urging Republicans to abandon cuts to Medicare and Medicaid. WASHINGTON - Trying to revive health care talks, President Donald Trump said Saturday that he had spoken to the Senate's Democratic leader to gauge whether the minority party was interested in helping pass "great" health legislation.
In this Sept. 6, 2017 photo, President Donald Trump and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., during a meeting with other Congressional leaders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington.
Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price, shown here at a discussion about opioids on Thursday, drew fire for his use of private jets. Carolyn Kaster/AP hide caption Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price, shown here at a discussion about opioids on Thursday, drew fire for his use of private jets.
Education Secretary Betsey DeVos spoke about changing career and education needs on Sept. 18. "Washington should not be dictating when and how students can learn," she said.
WITH ONE more repeal-and-replace effort in flames, Republicans face a choice. They can continue to live in a fantasy world in which it is possible simultaneously to uproot Obamacare, slash federal spending on health care and widen health-care coverage.
After a two-week vacation, I'm finding the need just to catch up on what's happening on the national scene in terms of our plan for national health care. So, I'll be taking a look at a new push from the right to repeal Obamacare, the Cassidy-Graham Plan; last week's proposal from the left, a Medicare for All bill sponsored by Sen. Bernie Sanders; and a more centrist attempt by Sen. Patty Murray, D-Washington, to find a bipartisan solution For as little as 27 cents a day, you can have complete access to all the local news, photos and video content from North Central Washington's primary news source.
13, 2017 photo, Precyla Escobar holds her two-year-old sone Zeke at the McCarran International Child Development Center in Las Vegas. Those who work outside of the 9-to-5 are lost in the national conversation over ... .
Heather Peele is just like any other mom rushing to pick up her child at day care after work. Except, it's 2:30 a.m., and her 6-year-old daughter has been sleeping for hours at a 24-hour child care center near the Las Vegas airport.
The Trump administration intends to rewrite the Obama administration's directive on handling campus-based sexual assaults, saying the system has failed both victims and the accused, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said Thursday. Her stance sets the stage for a dramatic reversal of how Title IX, the 1972 law that bars discrimination based on sex in education, is enforced.
Senators are launching hearings to help Republicans and Democrats decide if they can forge a modest agreement to shore up the nation's individual insurance markets. The effort will show whether divided Republicans are ready to pivot from trying to obliterate the Obama health care law to helping it survive, and if both parties can overcome lingering raw feelings over that battle.
Alexander said that the package is likely to be narrow, hinting on Tuesday that it could just include giving states more flexibility to get federal waivers for changes to their healthcare market and providing funding for cost-sharing subsidies to insurers for 2018. "We will see if we can come up with a limited bipartisan package, maybe just two things that have some effect in 2018," Alexander said.
As Congress returns to work this week, its agenda is crowded with must-pass legislation. To avoid shutting down the government, lawmakers will have to vote for new spending bills.
In this Jan. 31, 2017 file photo, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Chairman Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., accompanied by the committee's ranking member Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Sen. Lamar Alexander speaks on Capitol Hill. Millions of people who buy individual health insurance policies and receive no government help for premiums are facing another year of double-digit premium increases and frustrations are boiling over.
Millions of people who buy individual health insurance policies and get no financial help from the Affordable Care Act are bracing for another year of double-digit premium increases, and their frustration is boiling over. What they pay is tied to the price of coverage on the health insurance markets created by the Obama-era law, but these consumers get no protection from the law's tax credits, which cushion against rising premiums.
Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander , chairs the Senate's Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee; Sen. Patty Murray , is the committee's ranking Democrat. With Republican efforts to "repeal and replace" the Affordable Care Act stalled, tentative bipartisan initiatives are in the works to stabilize the fragile individual insurance market that serves roughly 17 million Americans.
In this Oct. 30, 2013 file photo, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Don't make things worse.
The government will make this month's payments to insurers under the 2010 health care law that President Donald Trump still wants to repeal and replace, a White House official said Wednesday. Trump has repeatedly threatened to end the payments, which help reduce health insurance copayments and deductibles for people with modest incomes but remain under a legal cloud.