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After months of planning and weeks of wrangling with wary lawmakers, the House is set to vote today on legislation to overhaul the Affordable Care Act and redefine health care in America. If the House approves the measure, it will go the Senate for another round of negotiations before returning to the chamber for a final vote on a compromise bill.
The mood among House Republicans is jubilant Thursday morning as they prepare to vote for their bill to repeal and replace Obamacare. The first test vote easily passed along party lines, with a final vote on the bill expected in the 1 p.m. ET hour on the legislation, would dismantle the pillars of the Affordable Care Act and make sweeping changes to the nation's health care system.
A Republican congressman is confident his party's health care bill won't result in millions losing coverage due to less federal funding of Medicaid. As originally introduced in March, the bill would leave 24 million fewer people insured by 2026 than under Obamacare, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said.
The Republican effort to reshape the nation's health-care system stands on the verge of clearing one major hurdle - and immediately running into an even taller one. If the House passes a GOP plan to repeal and replace key parts of the Affordable Care Act in a vote expected Thursday, the legislation will move over to the Senate, where Republican leaders will have their hands full with political and procedural challenges complicating the chances for final passage.
Rep. Fred Upton speaks to a group of students after a vote outside of the Capitol Building May 3, 2017 in Washington, DC. Rep. Upton, a moderate Republican, announced that he would support his party's health care bill after adding an amendment he believes will help prevent people with pre-existing medical conditions from losing coverage.
Former President Barack Obama at a community event on the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago on Wednesday. This weekend, the John F. Kennedy library will present its annual Profile in Courage Award to Barack Obama.
Republicans plan a fresh bid to push their health care bill through the House of Representatives and claim a victory for Donald Trump, six weeks after nearly leaving it for dead. House leaders plan a vote on Thursday on the legislation, revamped since collapsing in March to attract most hard-line conservatives and some GOP centrists.
Gov. Nathan Deal's office says he'll sign the bill, which also limits the number of treatment centers that can open in parts of the state Thursday morning. Deal also is expected to sign bills allowing the sale of an overdose-reversing drug called naloxone over the counter and expanding the state's prescription drug-monitoring program, which aims to prevent over prescribing of opioids .
House Republicans planned a vote Thursday on a revised bill rolling back much of former President Barack Obama's health care law. The legislation would rework subsidies for private insurance, limit federal spending on Medicaid for low-income people and cut taxes on upper-income individuals used to finance Obama's overhaul.
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Last October House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz was so excited about continuing to investigate Hillary Clinton in her new role as president that he couldn't help but gush to the Washington Post . "It's a target-rich environment," Chaffetz said.
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In this Saturday, April 22, 2017, file photo, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, left, shakes hands with Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull at Admiralty House in Sydney. President Donald Trump and Turnbull will try to patch the rocky start to their working relationship when they meet in New York.
Rep. Jim Jordan was among the Republicans who switched their votes Thursday allowing a healthcare bill to pass that includes steep premium hikes for older and sick people and slashes services. Jordan is a founder of the ultraconservative Freedom Caucus, a group of about 30 Republican congressman which helped torpedo Trumpcare - officially known as the American Health Care Act - in March believing it provided too many taxpayer subsidies to low-income people and increased the approximately $500 billion deficit.
The wife of jailed opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez rushed to Caracas' military hospital late Wednesday seeking information on her husband after a report on social media said he had been taken there with a medical emergency - a scare that proved to be wrong. "Please, can you inform us if anyone brought Leopoldo here? Did he enter or not?" Lilian Tintori could be heard pleading tearfully through the metal bars at the hospital's entrance.
Hillary Clinton continues to re-litigate her 2016 presidential election loss and congressional Democrats continue to pillory FBI Director James Comey. In a nation fraught with current-day problems isn't it time to move on? Clinton during an interview Tuesday insisted, "I was on my way to winning until the combination of Jim Comey's letter on Oct. 28 and Russia Wiki- Leaks [of her campaign emails] raised doubts in the minds of people who were inclined to vote for me but got scared off."
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. pauses while meeting with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 2, 2017, following a policy luncheon.
The Latest on congressional action on the GOP health care bill and the $1.1 trillion government-wide spending bill : Democrats say House Republicans up for re-election next year will face a public backlash if they vote to approve a GOP health care bill.
Former President Barack Obama speaks at a community event on the Presidential Center at the South Shore Cultural Center in Chicago. Barack Obama has unveiled the vision for his presidential library in Chicago, a modern, $500 million project he hopes will be a training ground for future leaders housed in the city that launched his career.
When, during a presidential debate in 2007, Barack Obama said he would agree to meet the world's worst dictators "without precondition," he was rightly chastised for it. His error was not in believing that negotiation and diplomacy have a role to play, or that it is sometimes necessary for America's president to grip the hand of an odious head of state to improve relations and make the world a better place.