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A growing share of Americans say the federal government has a responsibility to make sure all have health care coverage.
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In a week chock full of news, the party that found itself on the night of Nov. 8, much to its surprise, very much out of power has been having difficulty finding a way to return. Democratic senators, urged on by the leftist blogosphere and party activists, peppered Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch with hostile questions, but to no apparent effect. They have failed to raise fears that Gorsuch would vote to repeal the 44-year-old Roe v. Wade, and their argument that he is a shill for big corporations is an obvious dud. But the base, or the resistance as it calls itself, as if it were opposing Hitler, is demanding all-out opposition, including a filibuster. In which case, Republicans will eliminate the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees as Harry Reid and Democrats did in 2013 for lower court and executive branch nominees. Republicans won't hold their Senate majority forever, but they aren't likely to lose it in 2018, when Democrats will defend 10 seats in states carried by President Trump and Republicans will defend only one in a Hillary Clinton state.
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Conservative members are just asking the GOP to do what they promised the American people.
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House GOP leadership on Friday pulled a bill to repeal Obamacare from the House floor, after President Trump asked House Speaker Paul Ryan to end work on the doomed measure. The decision to pull the American Health Care Act off the House floor was a concession that they don't have the votes for the controversial bill. Recent changes outlined on Thursday night and an ultimatum from Trump weren't enough to sway wary moderates and far-right conservatives to support the package. The White House confirmed the decision to pull the bill, which occurred just before House Republicans recessed the House to hold a meeting among all Republican lawmakers. A GOP leadership aide said Republicans were meeting in the Capitol basement to talk about the status of the bill. The White House on Thursday agreed to changes to woo Freedom Caucus support, including adding an amendment to the bill that repeals the federal requirement for insurers to cover essential health benefits. The amendment would require states to outline the benefits.
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For the second time, GOP leaders postponed a scheduled bill vote after running into objections from conservatives and moderates.
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The decision marks a revival for the controversial pipeline, which the Obama administration halted.
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House Republicans abandoned their efforts to repeal and partially replace Obamacare after President Donald Trump and Speaker Paul Ryan concluded they didn’t have enough support, marking an embarrassing setback for the GOP agenda.
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A key part of Speaker Paul Ryan and President Trump's agenda was to repeal Obamacare, but it seems less and less likely that it's going to happen this year. And people are looking for someone to blame. On Friday afternoon, Ryan went to the White House and updated the President that they did not...
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In what was a marked defeat for President Trump and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan despite confident predictions all week from both, House Republicans went into recess rather than voting on Trumpcare, the American Health Care Act. Democrats taunted them as the House was recessed, chanting for a vote. Trump apparently told Robert Costa of The Washington Post, “We pulled it.”
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Less than an hour before the House is scheduled to vote on the American Health Care Act, former House speaker...
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Jeff Gaddie says the Blue Lives Matter flag has flown outside his daughter’s home in St. Johns County for years.
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So, for seven long years the Republicans pledged to repeal Obamacare. Conservatives across the country elected them to a massive majority in the House. Then they elected them to a slim majority in the Senate. Then they elected President Trump, who stated over and over again that he would repeal Obamacare. We will immediately repeal and replace ObamaCare - and nobody can do that like me. We will save $'s and have much better healthcare!
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U.N. Human Rights Council, March 20, 2017. Transcript: https://www.unwatch.org/algeria-jews-hillel-neuer-u-n-human-rights-council/
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On Friday morning, as the House prepared to vote on a deeply flawed health care bill maintaining the major provisions of Obamacare while claiming to repeal and replace that monstrosity, House leadership, President Trump, and their allies in the media put severe pressure on House conservatives to buckle.
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Republicans repealed a sweeping new FCC regulation passed as Democrats were on the way out the door late last year. The usual suspects are screaming that you should panic, but the repeal was the right thing to do.
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More than six years have passed since Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa rocked the academic world with their landmark book, Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses. Their study of more than 2,300 undergraduates at colleges and universities across the country found that many of those students improved little, if at all, in key areas—especially critical ? Continue reading "Why College Graduates Still Can?t Think"
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The Freddie Gray cops won again in a lawsuit against Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby who tried to make a name for herself by putting them on trial for crimes they didn't commit.
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A group of college women have planned an overnight Slut Walk in Compton to protest sexual assault. The group will wear nothing but thongs and nipple stars to highlight the impact of rape culture on…
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A House committee chair dealt the GOP bill to replace the ACA another blow as he announced he will not be voting in favor of the plan as currently written.
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WASHINGTON – Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort will testify before the House Intelligence Committee on Monday, Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., revealed Friday morning. Nunes, the committee chairman, also said he has asked FBI Director James Comey and National Security Agency Director Adm. Mike Rogers to testify in a closed session on Tuesday. They are [?]
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Authorities in London made two more significant arrests in the investigation into Wednesday's terror attack that sent shock waves through the country.
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This House Rep from New Jersey is cold as ice. He isn't feeling the America Health Care Act proposed by Speaker Paul Ryan, nor will he be swayed by President Trump's ultimatum.
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In a statement that he probably would like a second shot at, New York Republican Rep. Chris Collins told MSNBC on Thursday that after Republican lawmakers pass the healthcare bill they would be able to "really explain it" to the American people. The line was painfully similar to House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi's infamous line about having to "pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it."
