Republicans want you to believe these lies about health care

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, speaks to reporters about Senate Republicans released health care bill on Thursday at the U.S. Capitol. To succeed in gutting health coverage for millions of Americans, Senate Republican leaders need to get a series of lies accepted as truth.

Senate Republicans face key week as more senators waiver in their support for health care bill

Sen. Susan Collins , seen here in a file photo, expressed concerns about the bill's Medicaid provisions on Sunday. Senate Republicans and the White House are facing down an increasingly daunting challenge to secure the votes necessary to pass legislation before the July 4 congressional recess that would make dramatic changes to President Obama's signature health care law.

The Latest: Senator: GOP plan doesn’t ‘repeal nor replace’

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The Latest: Trump says hostility has stymied bipartisanship

In this Feb. 13, 2017 file photo, President Donald Trump watches as Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin walks to his fiancee Scottish actress Louise Linton after he was sworn-in by Vice President Mike Pence, in the Oval Of... President Donald Trump is bemoaning what he calls "the level of hostility" that he says has stymied bipartisanship in Washington. While discussing the Republican health bill during an interview on "Fox & Friends," Trump said it would be great if lawmakers from both parties could "come up something that everybody's happy with."

Collins would oppose court nominee with an ‘activist agenda’

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Inside Washington: Writing a bill in private not unusual

In this May 23, 2017, file photo, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., right, accompanied by Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Republican effort to secretly craft a health care bill and whisk it through the Senate is striking, and it's drawing fire from members of both parties.

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein testified before a Senate subcommittee Tuesday morning.

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said Tuesday that even if President Trump told him to fire Robert Mueller as special counsel overseeing the Department of Justice investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, he would not follow the order unless he thought there was good cause. The statement came after Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, asked Rosenstein during an open Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing what he would do if Trump asked him to fire Mueller.

Collins: Trump should give a ‘yes or no’ on tapes

Sen. Susan Collins said Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union" that she does not understand why President Donald Trump has refused to give a "straight yes or no" answer to questions about whether he secretly recorded his discussions with FBI Director James Comey. The Maine Republican added that if any audio recordings do exist, she expected Trump to provide them to federal investigators looking into Russia's efforts to influence the 2016 election, saying if he did not, he should be legally compelled to do so.

The Latest: Republican wants Trump tapes if they exist

The Latest on President Donald Trump and the investigation into his campaign's potential ties to Russia : A Republican senator is taking President Donald Trump to task for not clearing up a burning question: whether he has tape recordings of his conversations with his then-FBI Director James Comey. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine says Trump had a chance to settle the matter when he held a news conference Friday at the White House, but he didn't.

Comey should get his story straight on Clinton, Trump: Susan Shelley

The most stunning thing in James Comey's testimony to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence was what he said about special prosecutors, also called special counsels. “After former President Clinton met on the plane with the attorney general, I considered whether I should call for the appointment of a special counsel and decided that would be an unfair thing to do because I knew there was no case there,” Comey testified, speaking of the investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server.

Republicans urge Trump on tapes; Sessions to testify Tuesday

Fellow Republicans pressed President Donald Trump on Sunday to come clean about whether he has tapes of private conversations with former FBI Director James Comey and provide them to Congress if he does - or possibly face a subpoena, as a Senate investigation into collusion with Russia or obstruction of justice extended to a Trump Cabinet member. It was a sign of escalating fallout from riveting testimony from Comey last week of undue pressure from Trump, which drew an angry response from the president on Friday that Comey was lying.

Keating Concerned with One of Trump’s Top Picks for FBI Director

Former Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman gives a 'thumbs-up' as he leaves the West Wing of the White House in Washington Wednesday Besides being Connecticut's US senator for 14 years, Lieberman unsuccessfully ran for the presidency, was Al Gore's running mate and was considered a vice presidential possibility when Sen. According to media reports , the Trump administration is considering four candidates to replace fired FBI Director James Comey. Frank Keating , former FBI official Richard McFeely and acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe .

McCaskill: Rosenstein said he knew Comey would be fired before memo

Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill said deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein knew President Donald Trump was going to fire FBI Director James Comey before he wrote a memo recommending Trump do that. Rosenstein gave a classified briefing for the full Senate in private on Thursday afternoon more than a week after Trump fired Comey and a day after he appointed former FBI Director Robert Mueller as special counsel for all things related to Russian attempts to influence the 2016 election.

GOP senator: ‘Absurd’ to accept Putin’s transcripts of Trump conversation

Sen. Susan Collins: "The idea that we would accept any evidence from President Putin is absurd" https://t.co/md1UAd2ICp Susan Collins GOP senator: 'Absurd' to accept Putin's transcripts of Trump conversation Senate GOP warms to larger insurance subsidies for older and low-income people The Memo: GOP anger at Trump is building MORE said Wednesday it would be "absurd" to accept Russian transcripts detailing last week's conversations between President Trump and the Russian officials, after the White House refused to say if it would provide transcripts from the meetings last week. "The idea that we would accept any evidence from President Putin is absurd," said Collins, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Sharing secrets with Russia ‘very troubling,’ Maine senators say

The possibility that President Donald Trump disclosed highly classified information to Russian visitors to the White House has raised concerns among Maine lawmakers. Both Maine senators - Republican Susan Collins and independent Angus King - called it "very troubling" if the president shared sensitive secrets with the Russians.

What Bruce Poliquin’s ear buds tell us about American politics

By now, the story of Rep. Bruce Poliquin's dash into a bathroom and reemergence with ear buds has become the subject of mocking humor, with editorial cartoons depicting the congressman hiding out to avoid reporters. Poliquin's ear-budded refusal to divulge his position on Trumpcare until just before he voted for it illuminates broader dynamics about the Republican party today.

These Republicans are standing up to Trump over James Comey firing

President Donald Trump's firing of former FBI Director James Comey has split his party into two factions - those scrambling to defend their leader and those who find themselves unable and/or unwilling to do so. I've spent the last several hours trying to find an acceptable rationale for the timing of Comey's firing.

Senator Collins Honored at 2017 Common Sense Awards

U.S. Senator Susan Collins was honored for her work on issues that help children and families by Common Sense Media, the nation's leading non-partisan, non-profit children's media anda Z advocacy organization. U.S. Senator Susan Collins was honored for her work on issues that help children and families by Common Sense Media, the nation's leading non-partisan, non-profit children's media anda Z advocacy organization.

Health care debate shifting over to Senate

The contentious debate over overhauling the health care system shifts to the Senate and a moderate Republican, Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, says the Senate will not take up the House bill and will instead start from scratch . Some senators have already voiced displeasure with the health care bill that cleared the House last week.

H.H.S. Sec. Price defends cutting nearly $1 trillion from Medicaid

Cutting nearly $1 trillion from Medicaid will give states the freedom to tailor the program to suit their needs, Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price said Sunday, as he defended a narrowly passed House bill that aims to undo parts of the health care law enacted by the previous administration. The bill's passage buoyed President Donald Trump, but the measure appeared headed for an overhaul in the Senate.