Steve Daines's office and express outrage at the way Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is trying to ram a health insurance bill through the Senate without hearings, public input or financial data from the Congressional Budget Office.
The new 30-second spots come on top of new ads on rural radio stations from Save My Care targeting the same senators, as well as an 11-state ad buy that the AARP announced this week targeting Senate Republicans.
Senate Republicans will likely miss a deadline they set to vote on health reform by the end of the month, and it's possible final passage of a healthcare bill could be delayed beyond the month-long August recess.
"They're ashamed of the bill", Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said on the Senate floor on June 12.
"I know the outlines of various proposals that have been discussed, but it is still very much a work in progress", said Sen. "So when they vote on the new health-care bill, tell them to think about what's right for our families and vote no". That was an extraordinary slap at legislation that Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., guided through the House and that Trump himself had championed and praised at a Rose Garden ceremony. Then, he made headlines by wheeling a photocopier across the Capitol to try to find a copy of the House bill. "I don't know", Murkowski said.
However, the bill would need to generate additional revenue to cover these extra costs, and $133 billion would still need to be reduced from the deficit over a 10-year period (which was the figure the CBO estimated in its report from the passed House version).
McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, has been under criticism, including from some fellow Republican senators, for writing the Senate bill behind closed doors.
Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nev.) has made it clear both in hearings and in hallway interviews that he can not support a bill that caps growth at a slower rate.
"I like to think Mr. Carter and I understand each other", former President Barack Obama said in his videotaped introduction.
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Spain and France are sending aircraft to assist in efforts to douse the flames, authorities say. "The EU is fully ready to help". A burnt truck next to a gate in the village of Pobrais, near Pedrogao Grande , central Portugal , Monday, June 19 2017.
The sources say the president did not specify what aspects of the bill he was characterizing.
"There's no bill as far as I know", said Ohio Republican Sen.
The governors are particularly concerned about the bill's Medicaid provisions.
Besides Bullock and Kasich, whose states Trump won in 2016, Republicans Brian Sandoval of Nevada and Charlie Baker of MA signed the letter. The Democrats who added their names were John Bel Edwards of Louisiana, John Hickenlooper of Colorado, and Tom Wolf of Pennsylvania.
The House bill would, for the first time, cap the amount the federal government provides to states for their Medicaid programs.
Senate leaders have said they're iffy on the terminals, and are reviewing the bill in-depth next week.
Although the Democratic leadership hasn't publicly supported the use of parliamentary maneuvers to slow down routine business in the Senate as part of the fight against the repeal and replace of Obamacare, CNN reported that this strategy is being considered.
How the legislation would treat people with pre-existing conditions in the individual insurance market is a key concern.
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