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The US Senate has approved a major tax overhaul, bringing the Trump administration one step closer to its aim of slashing taxes for businesses and the wealthy, while delivering mixed changes for the rest of the country. In what would be the largest US tax overhaul since the 1980s, Republicans want to add $1.4 trillion over 10 years to the $20 trillion national debt to finance changes that they say would further boost an already growing economy.
Following the accusations by four women that Roy Moore dated and had sexual relations with them when they were in their teens and he was a 30-year-old lawyer, Moore's supporters in Alabama are - for the moment - remaining at the side of their man while national Republicans are fleeing the scene. According to Politico , the timing of the accusations - along with fear that a Democrat may take the seat once held by Attorney General Jeff Sessions - has local conservatives hardening their position supporting the controversial ex-judge.
Louisiana Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy withdrew his support Saturday for GOP candidate Roy Moore, who is facing allegations of sexual misconduct while running in the U.S. Senate race in Alabama, using social media to announce his decision. "Based on the allegations against Roy Moore, his response and what is known, I withdraw support.
DES PLAINES, Ill. The Emergency Nurses Association applauds the House of Representatives for passing the Protecting Patient Access to Emergency Medications Act yesterday.
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board members talk about a ruling to revisit the idea of drilling for oil in the Everglades. Sun Sentinel Editorial Board members talk about a ruling to revisit the idea of drilling for oil in the Everglades.
A bipartisan proposal to calm churning health insurance markets gained momentum Thursday when enough lawmakers rallied behind it to give it potentially unstoppable Senate support. But its fate remained unclear as some Republicans sought changes that could threaten Democratic backing.
In a bizarre defense of President Donald Trump's lack of grasp of public policy, Sen. Bill Cassidy suggested on Thursday that it does not matter if the president of the United States has any understanding at all of major legislation. His reasoning: a biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt that he is reading currently noted that the 32nd president did not have a deep understanding of fiat money.
U.S. President Donald Trump thrashed late night comedians on Saturday, after Fox News' "Fox and Friends" aired a segment accusing late night comedians like Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel of "[taking] a hard turn to the left." Slamming late night comedians and the media on Twitter on Saturday morning, Trump suggested that Republicans aren't given "equal time" to Democrats on television.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, July 28, 2017, after the Republican-controlled Senate was unable to fulfill their political promise to repeal and replace "Obamacare." WASHINGTON -- Frustrated by Republican inaction on health care, President Donald Trump tweeted Saturday that he had reached out to the Senate Democratic leader in hopes of brokering a deal for a "great HealthCare Bill."
ABC's late-night host Jimmy Kimmel isn't likely to stop talking about health care anytime soon - especially after the harrowing surgery experience with his infant son, Billy, and the massive response he's received from viewers. But he did reach some closure on Tuesday night.
U.S. Republicans on Tuesday fell short yet again in their seven-year drive to repeal Obamacare, in a bitter defeat that raises more questions about their ability to enact President Donald Trump's agenda. The party was unable to win enough support from its own senators for a bill to repeal the 2010 Affordable Care Act and decided not to put it to a vote, several Republicans said.
Senate Republicans, short of votes, abandoned their latest and possibly final attempt to kill the health care law Tuesday, just ahead of a critical end-of-the-week deadline. The repeal-and-replace bill's authors promised to try again at a later date, while President Donald Trump railed against "certain so-called Republicans" who opposed the GOP effort.
Senate Republicans, short of votes, abandoned their latest and possibly final attempt to kill the health care law Tuesday, just ahead of a critical end-of-the-week deadline.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., flanked by Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., left, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., right, speaks to reporters as they faced assured defeat on the Graham-Cassidy bill, the GOP's latest attempt to repeal the Obama health care law, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2017.
The former Florida lawyer convicted of orchestrating a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme likely won't be getting out of prison early after prosecutors sought to withdraw an offer to cut his sentence. Court documents filed Tuesday show that prosecutors have concluded that Scott Rothstein failed to comply with terms of his plea agreement by providing false information to the government.
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham speaks as Sen. Roy Blunt. Sen. John Barrasso, Senate Majority Whip Sen. John Cornyn, Sen. Bill Cassidy, and Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell listen during a news briefing at the Capitol September 19, 2017 Senate leaders have given up on the latest Republican push to repeal and replace President Barack Obama's health care law.
Senate Republican leaders have decided not to bring their last-ditch Obamacare repeal bill, known as Graham-Cassidy, to the floor this week, for now killing their seven-year effort to dismantle the 2010 health care law. "We don't have the votes," said Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, one of the co-authors of the bill, at a press conference following a closed-door Senate GOP Conference lunch.
Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., right, speaks to an aide as he appears before a Senate Finance Committee hearing to consider the Graham-Cassidy healthcare proposal, on Capitol Hill, Monday, Sept. 25, 2017, in Washington.
The two Republican senators leading the party's last ditch bid to repeal Obamacare are about to launch an effort to save their reeling bill in a prime-time debate on CNN. Sens. Lindsey Graham and Bill Cassidy face off against Democrats Sen. Bernie Sanders and Sen. Amy Klobuchar at 9 p.m. ET, with their measure appearing all-but-doomed after a third Republican, Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, came out against it.