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The Obamacare repeal blueprint that President Donald Trump and House Republican leaders are trying to slam through the House this week is horrible enough, ripping away insurance from millions and giving a huge tax break to the wealthy . But if some Republicans get their way, a bill that would threaten our DNA privacy could be part of the follow-up legislation to replace the Affordable Care Act.
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan gives a thumbs-up as he addresses the annual National Republican Congressional Committee dinner on Tuesday. Readers weigh in on the health care bill Ryan recently put forward.
Our country has elected to provide health care to our fellow countrymen in need: to seniors through the Medicare program, to the indigent through Medicaid, to needy children through the Child Health Insurance Program, and to indigent women of childbearing years through Title X. The Affordable Care Act extended this tradition by allowing states to expand Medicaid eligibility to families with income up to 1.38 times the poverty line while providing subsidies to others to enable them to purchase insurance on regulated health exchanges The actual health care is delivered by thousands of providers who are reimbursed for the care they provide through these programs.
One of the biggest defects in the U.S. tax code is that it encourages companies to finance themselves by borrowing rather than by issuing equity. Correcting this bias should be a top priority for President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress as they merge their plans for tax reform.
Regarding President Donald Trump's allegation that former President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower: U.S. Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, said, "A lot of the things he says, you guys take literally." We took it literally, because Mr. Trump meant it literally.
U.S. President Donald Trump waves with Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., after attending a Friends of Ireland reception on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., March 16. Writing a weekly column means always worrying about finding a topic for the next one. The horror of staring at a blank document on the computer screen, while your mind remains as blank as that document, is one of the scariest moments in a writer's life.
During his first two days of testimony in Senate hearings on his nomination to the Supreme Court by President Trump, Judge Neil Gorsuch displayed high intelligence, independence, impartiality, modesty and firmness, qualities that will serve the nation well if he is approved as the ninth justice. His performance gives the Senate's Democratic minority a problem.
The nomination of Neil Gorsuch presents the Senate with a constitutional dilemma: Is this nation prepared to have Eddie Haskell serving a lifetime appointment on the Supreme Court? The most noteworthy thing to emerge from Gorsuch's testimony Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee wasn't his judicial philosophy , his credentials nor even the likelihood of confirmation . What stood out was his aw-shucks, good-golly manner: Gorsuch played a folksy sycophant straight out of the 1950s.
One is its public face, epitomized by President Donald Trump's incessant tweeting and his zest for unprovoked criticism of everyone from political foes to longtime U.S. allies. Even many supporters question his refusal to transition from campaign to governing mode.
By Agence France-Presse A Russian government spokesman expressed impatience Sunday that bilateral relations with the United States have not improved more quickly since US President Donald Trump took office. Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov said his country's government is eager for improved US-Russian relations, calling it "unpardonable not to be in dialogue," as Moscow presses the new US leader to make good on vows to improve ties.
It was quickly condemned by Heritage Action and other conservative groups. Moderate Republicans, like Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, expressed skepticism.
Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, in his April 1953 "Chance for Peace" speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, said, "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
In case you missed it: A story published March 4, in The Daily News written by Sarah Hauck headlined, "Task force prepares for Afghanistan deployment," reported on a live-fire training exercise she and I attended March 3 aboard Camp Lejeune.
The Florida Legislature opened its 2017 session Tuesday, and before they wrap up this year, lawmakers must cement the will of 71 percent of the voters who last November wanted medical marijuana written into the state Constitution in the belief that it would help some of their sickest neighbors.
The 2016 election has divided families, friends and country into hostile camps of zealous devotees and opposition unbelievers. We shout across a deepening, widening chasm.
Seven years ago, Barack Obama's Democrats passed a health-insurance law that promised to cover almost everyone and make medical care more affordable. Best of all, Obama said, the new plan wouldn't inconvenience anybody, except the high-income folks who got hit with a tax increase.
"The rate at which drugs are being seized around the state should concern every Minnesotan." -- Mona Dohman, Department of Public Safety commissioner That comment on a report issued this week by the Department of Public Safety and its Violent Crimes Enforcement Teams makes clear the magnitude of the challenge all Minnesotans face in dealing with illegal drug use, especially methamphetamine and opioid prescription drugs.