He added, "I don't believe that these taxpayers here are entitled to give that to him" and suggested her son "go earn those health benefits" - a response that immediately provoked boos from the crowd. Given that, given that preventative health care is the number one way to keep people healthy in our society.
Many GOP lawmakers and aides have expressed doubt that the House would vote next week on health legislation, just a month after an earlier version died for lack of support within the party.
Yet, the members said Ryan insisted a bill will be finalized between Congress and the White House before an existing spending measure expires and government funding dries up after April 28.
There was no discussion of how any deal on a bill to keep government funded until the October 1 start of a new fiscal year would resolve unsettled issues, including whether money would be provided for President Donald Trump's promised wall along the USA border with Mexico. Much of the concern continues to center on gutting Obamacare's protections for those with pre-existing conditions. "Hopefully, we're going to get both done, but we're going to get tax done".
Another Republican said they were still confident there wouldn't be a government shutdown, but added "it's always a possibility when you are dealing with a very raucous caucus".
"We've made it very clear that we want border wall funding, we want greater latitude to deny federal grants to sanctuary cities, we want hiring of immigration agents, and we want $30 billion to infuse the military budget", Spicer said. "The odds of that are pretty good", Representative Dave Brat of Virginia, a member of the far-right House Freedom Caucus, said in a radio interview Friday with a Richmond radio station.
No Democrats supported the plan. "I'd like to say next week, but ..."
Ryan sent a mixed message about the bill's prospects in remarks Wednesday to reporters in London.
Ryan called off a March 24 House vote on the measure after realizing that objections by conservative and moderate Republicans would have assured its defeat.
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The resolution, or sharpness, of the satellite images was such that the players looked quite small, with no discernible features. Volleyball is a popular sport in North Korea, and satellite imagery often shows games being played, the 38 North report adds.
With the spending deadline looming and pressure coming from the White House to put a legislative victory on the scoreboard in the first 100 days, House Republicans will have their hands full next week.
But there are significant obstacles.
The revision is aimed at drawing enough support from Republican moderates and core conservatives.
Meadows and his colleagues on the Freedom Caucus want to get rid of as many of Obamacare's insurance reforms, known as Title One for their section in the Affordable Care Act, as possible.
"We have the leverage and they have the exposure", House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California told fellow Democrats on a conference call Thursday, according to a senior Democratic aide.
Obamacare has stirred controversy since becoming law in 2010 under president Barack Obama and a Congress controlled by Democrats.
MacArthur's proposal would also allow states to opt out of Obamacare's requirement that insurance policies cover "essential" benefits such as maternity care.
"It's nearly achieving what I want, but a few areas need to be tightened up", MacArthur said, citing concerns about ensuring minimum insurance coverage requirements are protected. Any states that allow insurers to charge consumers more based on health status would also have to set up a high-risk pool to assist those affected.
A key House Republican lawmaker has said he expects a vote on a health bill during the first week in May. Several GOP governors in states that expanded Medicaid to low-income adults were pushing representatives to revise these provisions in the House bill. And that industry pays minimum wage and they keep their employees below a certain number of hours so that they can not - so that they don't have to pay health insurance. On Thursday, Trump said the House would pass a health care bill "next week" or shortly thereafter. Some 65 percent of those polled said they disapproved of the way Trump was handling the issue.
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