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Willie Geist asked Sen. Bill Cassidy about the possible rollback of Medicaid expansion that has many people worried. "Can you speak to that, what might be inside the bill for people who are currently enjoying the benefits and are worried they won't be covered if this becomes law?" Geist asked.
Key Republicans Wednesday emphatically resisted growing calls for an outside, independent investigator or a special panel in the wake of President Donald Trump's abrupt firing of FBI Director James Comey. Republicans control the Senate with 52 of its 100 seats.
A 15-year-old boy left a suicide note before he was killed by officers after pointing a BB gun at them in a high school parking lot in the dark, police said Monday. Making matters worse, the House plan would kill off the individual mandate's requirement that all Americans buy health insurance, which could lead more young and healthy men and women to go without.
Jimmy Kimmel returned to his late-night TV show Monday a week after an emotional monologue about his newborn son's heart condition and surgery. Last week he proclaimed to his " Jimmy Kimmel Live " audience, through tears, that all children in this country deserve affordable healthcare.
Senate Democrats asked Republicans Tuesday to drop their bid to repeal President Barack Obama's health care law, offering to help improve the nation's health care system if they did. On television talk shows and congressional town hall meetings, the GOP drive showed no signs of fading from public view.
Sure, Congressional Democrats are voting and speaking out against Trump's proposals on issues like health care, but few of them can garner national headlines or get a video to go viral. Comedians, on the other hand, are now the ones with a "bully pulpit" to raise issues in ways that dominate our social media feeds and impact the larger political conversation.
Susan Collins Collins on all-male healthcare working group: 'The leaders obviously chose the people they want' Collins: 'The Senate is starting from scratch' on healthcare Sunday shows preview: Republicans tout healthcare vote MORE on Sunday brushed off a question about why she is not part of an all-male group of senators working on the Republican bill to repeal and replace ObamaCare. "Well, the leaders obviously chose the people they want," Collins said in a Sunday interview on ABC's "This Week."
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.
Trump's first test takes him out of his comfort zone and into the front lines of the messy, complicated legislative process. While the White House is already trying to distance Trump from the House Republican bill to "fix" Obamacare , they're quietly working behind the scenes to help him deliver on the GOP 's main campaign promise from the past three election cycles.
An Illinois Republican congressman criticized for not holding in-person town halls says he remains opposed to them partly because of what fellow legislators have faced. U.S. Rep. Peter Roskam said at a City Club of Chicago luncheon Monday that he's held just one large town hall since entering Congress in 2007.
Inside one of America's raucous town hall events, where Republican Senators are feeling the heat from anti-Trump organizers Republican U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy speaks during a town hall meeting in Metairie, Louisiana, U.S. February 22, 2017. Many in the 200-strong crowd packed into a library meeting room in Metairie, a suburb of New Orleans, on Wednesday weren't listening to Cassidy plod through PowerPoint slides about his new Patient Freedom Act of 2017, a "comprehensive replacement" bill for the Obama administration's Affordable Care Act, co-written with three other GOP senators.
Across these United States, Americans young and old are confronting their representative Republican lawmakers face to face at town hall meetings , and opening up a powerful can of civic engagement whoop-ass. It's so beautiful.
People hold a rally outside Sen. Bill Cassidy's town hall meeting in Metairie, La., Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017. People hold a rally outside Sen. Bill Cassidy's town hall meeting in Metairie, La., Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017.
Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price has officially taken the helm of his department. The former congressman and orthopedic surgeon will soon find that our healthcare system today is a very sick patient.
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House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., joined by, from left, House Majority Whip Steve Scalise of La., and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif., meets with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017, as he announced that he has invited President Donald Trump to address a Joint Session of Congress on Feb. 28. PHILADELPHIA - Congressional Republicans are hoping for a message of unity and focus from Donald Trump in his first appearance before them as president. Trump was to speak Thursday to House and Senate GOP lawmakers at their annual policy retreat.
Two Republican U.S. senators are proposing a bill that would allow states that like the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare, to keep it instead of taking whatever replacement President Donald Trump and the Republicans come up with. 'Republicans think that if you like your insurance, you should keep it.
Republicans in Congress have already begun the legislative process to overhaul the Affordable Care Act, and Monday the GOP revealed a plan to replace it. U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy along with Senator Susan Collins unveiled the plan they call the Patient Freedom Act.
Lawmakers from both parties are admonishing a federal ethics official who sent a series of tweets commenting on President Donald Trump's potential conflicts of interest. Members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee say the tweets by Walter Shaub Jr., director of the Office of Government Ethics, were inappropriate and could compromise the agency's objectivity.
Advocate staff photo by BRYAN TUCK -- Oak Springs homeowner Alonso Credes sweeps the dry portion of his driveway along Oak Springs Lane Thursday in Carencro after flood waters receded enough for him to begin cleaning. Advocate staff photo by BRYAN TUCK -- Oak Springs homeowner Alonso Credes sweeps the dry portion of his driveway along Oak Springs Lane Thursday in Carencro after flood waters receded enough for him to begin cleaning.