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President Donald Trump raised a lot of eyebrows on Capitol Hill this week by repeatedly going after Senate Majority Mitch McConnell, demanding that the top Republican do more to push ahead with plans to overhaul the Obama health law, and also to spur action on other top Trump priorities, like bills on tax reform, and new money for roads and bridges. Let's imagine for a moment that President Trump could wave a magic wand and get rid of McConnell would anything really change in the Senate? 1. If McConnell disappears, the music stays the same.
U.S. President Donald Trump attacked his own party's Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, for a second day on Thursday, complaining from the steps of his private New Jersey golf club about Republicans' failure to repeal and replace Obamacare. "I just want him to get repeal and replace done.
Donald Trump said Thursday he's unhappy with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell over Congress's failure to eliminate Obamacare, escalating a war of words with a fellow Republican who is key to advancing the president's agenda. "I'm very disappointed in Mitch," the president told reporters after assailing McConnell on Twitter for two days.
Neil Chatterjee of Kentucky has been appointed Chair of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Prior to his confirmation, Mr. Chatterjee was an energy policy advisor to U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
" A top White House aide and a Fox News host lashed out at Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday for saying people think Congress hasn't done anything this year partly because President Donald Trump is inexperienced and had "excessive expectations" about how quickly lawmakers could act. The back and forth was an unusually negative public exchange between Republicans that came less than two weeks after the GOP effort to repeal and replace the Obama health care law was rejected by the Senate.
President Donald Trump slammed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday after the Kentucky Republican said that the president had "excessive expectations" regarding his agenda, particularly on repealing and replacing Obamacare. Senator Mitch McConnell said I had "excessive expectations," but I don't think so.
A week after an attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act failed, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he'd consider a bipartisan effort to continue payments to insurers to avert a costly rattling of health insurance markets. McConnell told reporters Saturday there is "still a chance" the Senate could revive the measure to repeal and replace "Obamacare," but he acknowledged the window for that is rapidly closing.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell greets constituents at the Graves County Republican Breakfast in Mayfield, Ky., on Saturday, Aug. 5, 2017. McConnell told Republicans not to be disheartened by the Senate's failure to repeal and replace former President Barack Obama's health care law, telling them: "We're not through."
A week after an attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act failed, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he'd consider a bipartisan effort to continue payments to insurers to avert a costly rattling of health insurance markets. McConnell told reporters Saturday there is "still a chance" the Senate could revive the measure to repeal and replace "Obamacare," but he acknowledged the window for that is rapidly closing.
George Will's latest WaPo column looks to Alabama to discuss the contemporary Republican Party, The GOP has become the party of the grotesque : Southern Gothic is a literary genre and, occasionally, a political style that, like the genre, blends strangeness and irony. Consider the current primary campaign to pick the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Jeff Sessions.
Before leaving town, the U.S. Senate handed President Donald Trump and the oil industry two long-sought regulatory appointments that could expedite construction of natural gas pipelines nationwide.
The Senate confirmed two new commissioners on August 4, 2017, to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. CREDIT: AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana The Senate voted Thursday evening to confirm two Republican nominees to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, one of whom accused natural gas pipeline opponents of waging a "jihad" against the agency.
As the upper chamber prepares to take on tax reform in September, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Wednesday that the process won't be easy, but it's necessary for the party to fulfill promises. Senate Republicans are turning to reforming the tax code after failing to gain the 50 votes needed to move forward on repealing and replacing Obamacare.
" The White House stepped up demands Sunday that the Senate resume efforts to repeal and replace former President Barack Obama's health care law, suggesting that lawmakers cancel their entire August recess, if needed, to pass legislation after a stunning series of failed votes last week. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has declared that it was "time to move on" from health care, scheduling debate early this week on judicial nominations.
The White House is insisting that the Senate resume efforts to repeal and replace the nation's health care law, signaling that President Donald Trump stands ready to end required payments to insurers this week to let "Obamacare implode" and force congressional action.
A tax reform bill could reach President Trump's desk by year end, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Kevin Brady said Sunday. "We're on that timetable to do it," Brady, R-Texas, told Maria Bartiromo on "Sunday Morning Futures."
President Trump on Sunday urged Senate Republicans to continue to try to overhaul ObamaCare, telling them "the world in watching." Trump suggested after the Republican-controlled Senate failed last week in several attempts to repeal and replace ObamaCare that he was OK with allowing the 2010 health care law to collapse as a result of its own problems.
I must congratulate Dave Ball for his July 23 column explaining conservative beliefs, values and principles, without which we would surely be less informed.