Proponents of Senate-passed legislation to hit Russian Federation with economic sanctions and limit the president's authority to lift the penalties fear the Trump administration may seek to dilute the bill and are urging the House to act quickly.
Senate Republicans steered toward a potential showdown vote on their long-awaited health care bill next week, despite indications that they've yet to solidify the 50 GOP votes they'll need to avert an embarrassing defeat. Without backroom deals and struck behind closed doors?
"The presumed 8 million reduction in the number of people with individual insurance looks more like an artifact of inflated coverage estimates than the effect of Obamacare repeal", write Badger and Turner.
Paul believes the bill now being drafted includes new entitlement programs, which he says will be a deal breaker for his support. And, yes millions of people losing their insurance are going to blame Republicans in control of Congress and President Trump, not Barack Obama and the Democrats.
The Affordable Care Act is far from flawless, but to repeal it outright without a replacement whose provisions have been scrutinized, discussed and debated in public would cause unnecessary pain and upheaval.
According to Bloomberg, the senator said he has yet to meet anyone who has seen the Senate GOP's health care bill.
"I think we'll have ample opportunity to read and amend the bill", said McConnell.
The Affordable Care Act expanded coverage, but it needs improvement.
One thing that's been cool about this no-one-knowing-anything phase is that Texas Sen. Thune said "it's high time we turned the page on this failed Obamacare experiment". Mike Lee, R-Utah, using a Facebook video for an unusually public swipe at GOP leaders.
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The state said the Federal Emergency Management Agency also was moving 125,000 meals and 200,000 liters of water into Louisiana. We will see a good chance of rain through the weekend. "We call them, we text them, we Facebook them, we Twitter , them".
According to a new survey from the University of Maryland's Program for Public Consultation, 63 percent of Republicans in deep red districts dislike the House-proposed AHCA legislation and 67 percent of all those surveyed (Democrats, Republicans and Independents) oppose the key provisions of the bill outright. McConnell is heading a committee of 13 Republican senators that will work on the bill.
How things change. Today, McConnell is the majority leader, and he is overseeing a massive rewrite of US health care law.
Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, was a member of that same group and told local reporters he had not seen a draft either, USA Today reported.
Besides Lee, two other conservatives were also complaining. He plans to roll out the bill text this week, and vote on it next week.
"The process is better if you do it in public", Sen.
"I'd be fine, don't get me wrong, to be voting on something soon", Lee said.
President Donald Trump has been eager for quick action, although in a closed-door luncheon with 15 GOP senators last week, he described a House-passed bill as "mean". Spicer also said he didn't know if the president had seen a draft of the Senate bill. But so far none have said they will vote against the bill because they object to the process. On Tuesday, they invoked a rule to block any committee hearings from taking place that afternoon to draw attention to their opposition to the health care bill. However, the process has been so secretive that a prominent health care journalist wrote Thursday, "Republicans do not want the country to know what is in their health care bill".
On Monday, Cantwell joined fellow Democrats in urging Republican leaders to bring their health care plan forward immediately."Come out here and say what is it that you don't like about the patient-centered delivery system that's here and how you want to change it", Cantwell said.
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