House Speaker Paul Ryan talks about the Republican leadership’s repeal and replace plan at a news conference on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, March 7, 2017. House committees will begin marking up the Republican leadership’s repeal-and-replace plan on Wednesday, and then it will head to the Budget and Rules Committees next week.
Day: March 8, 2017
This day in history, March 8, 2017
On March 8, 1917, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, 78, creator of the rigid airships bearing his name, died in Berlin. The U.S. Senate voted to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule.
House panels to launch fight in Congress over Obamacare replacement
A potentially lengthy U.S. legislative fight over replacement of the Obamacare health law gets underway on Wednesday as two House of Representatives committees begin negotiating over changes to a Republican plan backed by President Donald Trump. Both Democrats and Republicans are expected to try to reshape legislation that dismantles key provisions of the 2010 Affordable Care Act, Democratic former President Barack Obama’s signature domestic policy achievement.
Facing test of resolve, Trump pushes ahead with North Korea review
Faced with a growing test of resolve for a new U.S. president who vowed while campaigning to get tough on North Korea, Donald Trump’s aides are pressing to complete a strategy review on how to counter Pyongyang’s missile and nuclear threats. Pyongyang’s latest missile launches and the assassination in Malaysia of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s estranged half-brother have added urgency, driving home the need for Washington to confront the security challenge.
Tim Kaine’s youngest son arrested at Trump rally
The youngest son of Virginia senator and former Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine was among five people arrested Saturday after police said they disrupted a pro-Donald Trump rally in St. Paul, Minnesota. No charges were filed against Kaine or the other protesters who were detained due to “insufficient facts to prove felony-level riot,” according to the Ramsey County Attorney’s Office.
How GOP Plans to Make Health Care Plan Into Law: Analysis
On Monday, congressional Republicans released their bill that would dismantle much of the Affordable Care Act, called “Obamacare.” The plan calls for the government to play a smaller health care role but does keep some key provisions of former President Obama’s health care overhaul.
Ap Fact Check: Keystone XL, Dakota pipeline to be built without U.S. steel
In this Feb. 13, 2017, aerial file photo shows the site where the final phase of the Dakota Access Pipeline will take place with boring equipment routing the pipeline underground and across Lake Oahe to connect with the existing pipeline in Emmons County near Cannon Ball, N.D. American Indians from across the country are bringing their frustrations with the Trump administration and its approval of the Dakota Access oil pipeline to the nation’s capital Tuesday, March 7, 2017, kicking off four days of activities that will culminate in a march on the White House.
Villanova’s Hart a force as top player of the year candidate
To continue reading up to 10 premium articles, you must register , or sign up and take advantage of this exclusive offer: Villanova’s Josh Hart reacts after he hit a 3-pointer during the second half of a March 4 game against Georgetown in Washington. Villanova won 81-55.
Press release distribution, EDGAR filing, XBRL, regulatory filings
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Can Trump Bring Black Voters Back to the GOP?
Americans of African descent voted overwhelmingly Republican from the end of the Civil War to the 1930s, but they became almost totally Democrat by the 1970s. No single event brought about this tectonic shift, but the change in black voting patterns began with Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Donald Trump and the Flouting of the Goldwater Rule
In 1964, Fact Magazine produced a special issue entitled “The Unconscious of a Conservative: A Special Issue on the Mind of Barry Goldwater,” specifically addressing the mental health of then-Republican presidential candidate Sen. Barry Goldwater. As would be expected, the magazine did not pronounce Goldwater with a clean bill of mental health.
The Democrats and the Left Are Pursuing a Clever Strategy
Like other opponents of the Left, I am annoyed by the obstructionist tactics engaged in by Senate Democrats and the often hysterical reaction of the media to just about anything done by President Trump. I’m also appalled by the way Democratic and Obamaite operatives in the intelligence service and in other federal agencies leak sensitive information to their buds at the Washington Post and New York Times .
Trump’s New Immigration Order Is Still Not a ‘Muslim Ban’
Among many of Donald Trump’s campaign promises was a plan to reform a chaotic immigration system with better methods of vetting immigrants. Those who do not support the U.S. Constitution, American values or who desire to bring violence to our shores through terrorism would be screened out.
Wikileaks CIA Dump Has Some Peculiar Timing
Wikileaks has published a huge intelligence trove showing the entire hacking capacity of the Central Intelligence Agency Tuesday. It’s a bad loss of face for the top U.S. intelligence-gathering organization and a sign of something wrong over there – bad security, technology surpassed, spy penetration, or over-dissemination of secrets, to guess a few.
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Republican governors complain that a GOP proposal to replace former President Barack Obama’s health care law would force millions of lower-income earners off insurance rolls or stick states with the cost of keeping them covered. Governors, especially those from political battleground states, were generally cool to the bill put forth in the Republican-controlled U.S. House.
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No, not Jeff Sessions. Sessions was asked whether representatives of the Trump campaign had been in contact with Russian officials on behalf of the campaign, and Sessions said he didn’t know anything about that.
Women’s March organizers call for ‘A Day Without a Woman’
Organizers of the January Women’s March are calling for women to take the day off and enco… . FILE – In this Jan. 21, 2017 file photo, Gloria Steinem, center right, greets protesters at the barricades before speaking at the Women’s March on Washington during the first full day of Donald Trump’s presidency, in Wa… Organizers of January’s Women’s March are calling for women to take the day off, not spend money and wear red to mark a national “A Day Without A Woman.”
Acid victims redefine beauty in Bangladesh fashion show
Organizers said they hoped to highlight the fact that acid victims, too often over… . In this March 7, 2017 photo, a Bangladeshi acid attack survivor walk down the catwalk during the event ‘Beauty Redefined’ in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Olmos holds early lead over longtime incumbent in South El Monte mayoral election
SOUTH EL MONTE >> Mayor Pro Tem Gloria Olmos held a lead late Tuesday over longtime City Councilman Joseph Gonzales in the city’s special mayoral election. Olmos, a relative newcomer to the council, received about 60 percent of the vote with four precincts reporting as of 10:40 p.m. Gonzales, a board member for 16 years, trailed with about 40 percent.
Finally! EPA Being Run by People Who Believe in Science, not Fake Science
Mr. Pruitt, a former Oklahoma attorney general who built a career out of suing the agency he now leads, has moved to stock the top offices of the agency with like-minded conservatives – many of them skeptics of climate change and all of them intent on rolling back environmental regulations that they see as overly intrusive and harmful to business. Mr. Pruitt has drawn heavily from the staff of his friend and fellow Oklahoma Republican, Senator James Inhofe, long known as Congress’s most prominent skeptic of climate science.
Fake News Publishes Second Lady’s Private E-mail Address
And refuses to redact it, after VP Pence requests. Would they have done this to Joe Biden’s wife? If Joe Biden had asked for the private citizen’s private e-mail address to be redacted?
Canton breaks ground on new pool
“The groundbreaking is a bittersweet moment for the community because we’re removing a pool which holds 70 years of memories,” Town Manager Seth Hendler-Voss said prior to the groundbreaking. “But we’re replacing it with a dynamic pool which will make another 70 years of good memories.”
Trump riding herd on Congress to pass Obamacare repeal
The House health care bill, dubbed the American Health Care Act , is taking heat from all sides, perhaps a sign that the House Republicans who wrote the plan are in the area of the target. Repeal the mandates but add a one-time 30% premium surcharge for those who had previously failed to buy insurance.
Media, Deep State lies: Conditioning America to accept the absurd
Here’s a prediction: it will be proven true that the U.S. government under Obama illegally spied on the opposition party through Trump Tower communications intercepts in the weeks leading up to the Nov. 8 presidential election. Here’s another prediction: Obama himself will get away with it because, to quote another lying politician, “it depends on what the meaning of ‘is’ is.”
Secret Service investigating Trump threats possibly made in Chandler
The United States Secret Service is investigating threats made on Twitter against President Donald Trump that may have come from someone in Chandler, Arizona, Chandler Police officials said on Tuesday. The rock band Bon Jovi went the extra mile for a stage tech who was going through some health problems during a concert in downtown Phoenix.
Court decisions prompt city to reconsider panhandling law
The Daily Press reports that Hampton’s ordinance bans repeated requests for a handout after the panhandler is told “no.” Abusive language intended to intimidate is also barred.