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Republicans for years failed to gut the legacy of their nemesis Barack Obama: Now they can do so within a matter of days. President Donald Trump and GOP lawmakers have the chance to shred the signature achievements of the 44th President's two terms -- Obamacare and the nuclear deal with Iran.
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham speaks as Sen. Bill Cassidy , Sen. Dean Heller , Sen. Ron Johnson listen during a news conference on health care on Sept. 13, on Capitol Hill.
Strange has trailed Roy Moore in public opinion polls, and many of Trump's usual allies are working feverishly against him to elect the upstart challenger. Republicans in Washington are keeping a close eye on President Trump and whether he has the political juice to push Sen. Luther Strange to victory in the deadlocked special election contest for an Alabama Senate seat.
"Could it be, Sen. Cassidy, that the problem is that I do understand and you got caught with your G-O-Penis out?" For the second night in a row Wednesday, late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel raged against a Senate bill meant to repeal Obamacare . It followed an impassioned critique of Sen. Bill Cassidy that captured media headlines just a day before.
Even as Republicans scramble to find the votes to pass their latest attempt to repeal Obamacare, the list of advocacy and industry groups opposed to the bill continues to grow. On Wednesday, the two major health insurance industry associations voiced their concerns about the legislation, which would jettison several major Obamacare provisions and curtail federal support of Medicaid.
The late-night host went off on his detractors over the proposed Graham-Cassidy health care bill, which sadly fails to pass Sen. Cassidy's "Jimmy Kimmel Test." The Jimmy Kimmel Live! host opened his monologue late Wednesday night by addressing the Graham-Cassidy health care bill, a proposed piece of legislation by Senator Bill Cassidy and Senator Lindsey Graham that would replace Obamacare.
The latest Senate Republican attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act and enact sweeping reforms to the American health care system has generated intense opposition from the very health care providers, patient groups and insurance companies that would be forced to adapt to the changes envisioned by the legislation. The bill, sponsored by GOP Sens. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, would undo most of the Affordable Care Act and radically refashion the Medicaid program by shrinking the budgets for federal health care programs and turning over the remaining money to states, which would have to devise their own new health care systems.
Right-wing media figures attacked Jimmy Kimmel, host of ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live!, after Kimmel sharply criticized Sen. Bill Cassidy as having "lied right to my face" about health care in May. Kimmel pointed out that the Affordable Care Act repeal package Cassidy is co-sponsoring does not protect all children with pre-existing conditions, even though Cassidy told Kimmel he would support only those bills that passed that test. Jimmy Kimmel calls out Sen. Cassidy for lying about health care bills: "This guy, Bill Cassidy, just lied right to my face."
19, 2017 in Washington. Astronomers are using an array of giant antennas in the New Mexico desert for a years-long project aimed at producing the sharpest view ever of such a large portion of the sky using radio waves.
On Wednesday night, Jimmy Kimmel laced into Republican Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana for proposing new health care legislation that Kimmel said fails the "Jimmy Kimmel" test Cassidy himself had proposed in an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! last May. Cassidy appeared on the program after Kimmel had made an emotional plea for health care legislation in the wake of his newborn son's need for life-saving heart surgery. But, Kimmel said, with new legislation that Cassidy and co-sponsor Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., have proposed, "Not only did Bill Cassidy fail the Jimmy Kimmel Test, he failed the Bill Cassidy Test."
Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., center, speaks to the news media on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017, accompanied by Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., left, Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.
Sen. Lindsey Graham says he has a disparate trio of supporters for his last-gasp attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act. "And so I've got Alan Greenspan, Jeb Bush, and Steve Bannon," Graham said.
But in a startling reversal of fortune over the last week, Republicans lawmakers have resuscitated a new effort to dismantle the Affordable Care Act. The bill in question, Graham-Cassidy, named for its co-sponsors Sen. Lindsey Graham and Rep. Bill Cassidy, has earned the White House's backing, and received tacit support on Tuesday from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
The last time anyone paid much attention to the Republican effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act was when it was failing on the Senate floor in late July. That was the end of the end, we were told.
Republican senators couldn't escape the question as they shuffled to the Senate floor for votes Monday night. Would they support the Graham-Cassidy bill, perhaps their last chance to overhaul Obamacare? It's a repeal-and-replace proposal that less than a week ago seemed dead on arrival in the Senate.
The Republicans are making yet another run at repealing Obamacare, this time with a bill sponsored by Republican senators Lindsey Graham, of South Carolina, and Bill Cassidy, of Louisiana. While this legislation doesn't seem workable in its current form, as the old saying about Richard Wagner's music goes, the bill is in some respects "better than it sounds."
Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., said he wants to ban states from setting up a government-run healthcare system in a GOP bill to overhaul Obamacare that would allow states to set up their healthcare systems. Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., said he wants to ban states from setting up a government-run healthcare system in a GOP bill to overhaul Obamacare that would allow states to set up their healthcare systems.
Senators Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana last week released a bill that would eliminate or overhaul major sections of the health reform law. The duo had been trying to garner interest in earlier versions of their bill for months, but hadn't gotten much traction.
The Congressional Budget Office said it would provide a "preliminary assessment" by early next week of the latest proposal to repeal and replace Obamacare. The proposal, offered by Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. and Bill Cassidy, R-La., would give states control over the fate of Obamacare and its accompanying federal funding.