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President Donald Trump is rallying support for the Republican health care overhaul by taking his case directly to GOP lawmakers at the Capitol, two days before the House plans a climactic vote that poses an important early test for his presidency. Top House Republicans unveiled revisions to their bill in hopes of nailing down support.
The president told legislators for a second time this week that he expects the health bill to keep moving through Congress quickly, as he promised this law would fulfill Obama's unmet promises. "There's a pretty big the medical-industrial complex in America", Rep. Greg Walden of OR, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, told reporters.
Vice President Mike Pence, armed with the Republican bill to overhaul the health care system, put subtle but direct pressure Saturday on Republicans thinking about bucking President Donald Trump's administration and their leadership on Capitol Hill over the legislation. Pence cast the current debate over health care as the best chance Republicans have to repeal and replace Obamacare, President Barack Obama's sweeping 2010 health care law, and said the administration needs all Republicans to be with them in this effort.
Vice President Mike Pence defended the House GOP health care proposal on Saturday, venturing to Kentucky to counter opposition from the state's Republican governor and its junior GOP senator. Pence acknowledged that not all of the state's political leaders back the House leadership's plan, but told small business leaders that President Donald Trump would lean on House Republicans -- including two Kentucky lawmakers in attendance, Reps.
Vice President Mike Pence delivered a strong endorsement Saturday morning of the GOP's replacement bill for the Affordable Care Act, which was introduced earlier in the week by House Republican leadership and supported by President Donald Trump. Pence, who spoke to constitutents in Kentucky, highlighted some of the pitfalls of Obamacare, including rising premiums and a lack of carrier options.
Vice President Mike Pence is taking the Trump administration's case for a healthcare overhaul to Kentucky, where one of the state's GOP senators has been a leading critic of the White House-backed overhaul and the governor is unimpressed with the current proposal to replace the Obama-era law. Pence planned to tour an energy services company Saturday with Republican Gov. Matt Bevin, part of an effort to reassure conservatives who have raised objections to the House GOP healthcare proposal that would scrap former President Barack Obama's law.
Vice President Mike Pence speaks to the Latino Coalition's "Make Small Business Great Again Policy Summit" in Washington, Thursday, March 9, 2017. Vice President Mike Pence speaks to the Latino Coalition's "Make Small Business Great Again Policy Summit" in Washington, Thursday, March 9, 2017.
President Donald Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, March 9, 2017, during a meeting with leaders from small community banks. . FILE- In this March 6, 2012 file photo, an FBI poster showing a composite image of former FBI agent Robert Levinson, right, of how he would look like now after five years in captivity, and an image, center, taken f... .
House Speaker Paul Ryan speaks during a news conference on the American Health Care Act on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 7, 2017. Now that Republicans have rolled out their legislative plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act , House Speaker Paul Ryan and other Republican congressional leaders have not only begun to sell the bill, but also build the support required for its passage.
President Donald Trump: "We're going to do something that's great and I'm proud to support the replacement plan released by the House of Representatives." Vice President Mike Pence: "I really do believe this is an extraordinarily important moment in the life of our nation, and every American who longs to see us start over on health care reform that will respect the doctor-patient relationship, that will harness the power of the free marketplace to lower the cost of insurance, that will give states freedom and flexibility to improve Medicaid for our most vulnerable citizens can let their voice be heard."
Rick Klein and Shushannah Walshe : "Get ready for Trump at war. That's what it will take if President Trump hopes to salvage his health care bill - and it is his bill now - against the accumulated weight of the AARP, the House Freedom Caucus, GOP senators including Rand Paul, Mike Lee and Ted Cruz, Heritage, the Club for Growth, tea party groups and even, yes, Breitbart News.
After appearing to project some ambivalence earlier in the day, President Trump came out strongly last night for the faltering House Republican plan to replace Obamacare. He told the group of about 20 lawmakers who will be charged with whipping up support for the legislation that he wants the Paul Ryan bill to be approved largely intact.
Over the strong objections of key conservatives and Democrats, House Republican leaders are forging ahead with a health care plan that scraps major parts of the Obama-era overhaul. The House Ways and Means Committee and the Energy and Commerce Committee intended to convene what were expected to be marathon sessions today to start voting on the legislation.
Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., left, accompanied by, from second from left, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Tx., and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaks about health care during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. . Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.
A powerful conservative backlash threatened to sink the new Republican health care bill Tuesday less than 24 hours after its launch, even as President Donald Trump and congressional leaders began trying to sell the legislation as the long-promised GOP cure for "Obamacare." "We're going to do something that's great and I'm proud to support the replacement plan released by the House of Representatives," Trump declared at the White House as he met Tuesday with the House GOP vote-counting team.
Vice President Mike Pence will continue his healthcare road show on Saturday here in Louisville. But, unlike past events, the vice president comes armed with a health care plan to sell.
What I mean is that the GOP is having to make compromises because the existing program, for all its flaws, is in purely political terms very hard to unravel. What's more, President Trump said during the campaign that he liked parts of ObamaCare, singling out the ban on refusing people with preexisting conditions and allowing parents to keep their kids on their policies until age 26. So the GOP is trying to navigate a narrow path that is far more treacherous than six years of just calling for repeal.
CHICAGO, March 7 The strain of bird flu that infected a chicken farm in Tennessee in recent days shares the same name as a form of the virus that has killed humans in China, but is genetically distinct from it, U.S. authorities said on Tuesday.
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that "I feel sure that my friend," longtime Obamacare critic Sen. Rand Paul, will support to Republican legislation introduced Monday to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. I feel sure that my friend @RandPaul will come along with the new and great health care program because he knows Obamacare is a disaster! Paul, the two-term Kentucky Republican, ripped the GOP plan and introduced his own bill Tuesday that would repeal Obamacare outright - with plans for a replacement bill to come later.
There's "a time to break down," the Bible teaches, "and a time to build up." This is the moment for both, and the moment is called "repeal and replace."