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1. Congress Cannot Abandon the Health Care Debate

Enough is enough. The Senate needs to get back to work and deliver a health care reform bill. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump needs to shut off the flow of illegal health insurance subsidies to members ...

Created on 31 July 2017

2. Swamp 1, People 0

... n told his best buddies on the left that he wanted to stick a fork in the whole repeal effort: "Let's get this over with," he told them, before walking theatrically to the well of the Senate and delivering a ...

Created on 31 July 2017

3. Do We Need 62 Republicans in the Senate?

The votes over health care legislation in the U.S. Senate on Thursday were quite telling. Not only do we now know where every senator stands on issues ranging from the full repeal of Obamacare, elimination ...

Created on 28 July 2017

4. This GOP Senator Has a Warning for President Trump

In the fall of 2015, when I first spoke on the Senate floor, I gave Nebraskans and every member of this body my word that I would speak up when a Republican president exceeded his or her powers. At that ...

Created on 28 July 2017

5. The GOP Senate Is a Bizarre World

Late Tuesday afternoon, the Senate voted to take up debate on repealing and replacing Obamacare—the vote was 51 to 50, with two Republican Senators—Maine's Susan Collins and Alaska's Lisa Murkowski—opposi ...

Created on 27 July 2017

6. Watch Live: Senate Resumes Health Care Debate

The U.S. Senate is resuming its health care debate—technically, it's debating the House's American Health Care Act—at approximately 10 a.m. EDT Thursday. This promises to be yet another marathon sessio ...

Created on 27 July 2017

7. Here are the 6 Republicans Who Changed Their Minds About Obamacare

...  the repeal of Obamacare. Click here to watch the speech. Ultimately, the bill failed on a 55-45 vote; Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, who has never voted for a repeal of the health care law, also voted "no ...

Created on 27 July 2017

8. UPDATED: Senate Set to Vote on New Health Care Bill at 3:30 PM

12:30 p.m. Update: The Senate is now scheduled to vote on Sen. Rand Paul's "clean repeal" bill at 3:30 p.m. EDT. The Senate continues to intermittently debate health care policy in the meantime. The U. ...

Created on 26 July 2017

9. Round 1 to the GOP, Round 2 to the Democrats

The opening round in what is sure to be a three-day boxing match over the Senate's debate on health care went to Republicans, thanks to Vice President Mike Pence's tiebreaking vote. Round 1 was the vo ...

Created on 26 July 2017

10. And So It Begins: Senate Finally Takes Up Health Care Debate

With protesters attempting to disrupt the proceedings by shouting "Kill the bill!" and "Shame!", the U.S. Senate voted to approve a motion to begin debate on a health care bill that will ultimately repe ...

Created on 25 July 2017

11. Watch Live: Senate Voting on Motion to Proceed on Health Care Bill

The U.S. Senate is beginning its morning business meeting and is scheduled to quickly take up a measure that could lead to the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. The procedural ...

Created on 25 July 2017

12. Apparently Someone Is Looking Into It, Mr. President

... y by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the Democrats during the 2016 presidential election. Turns out someone is looking into it, Mr. President. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassle ...

Created on 25 July 2017

13. The Senate Votes on Health Care Today, and President Trump Has Offered 3 Options

... , and by passing it in the Senate, it can go immediately to the president's desk, where he will sign it into law. This bill was supposed to be crafted to meet the Senate's arcane "reconciliation" rules, me ...

Created on 25 July 2017

14. Watch Live: President Trump Addresses Health Care Problems in Senate

President Donald Trump is set to speak directly to the American people about health care and the stalled-out efforts in the Senate to repeal Obamacare. You can watch the speech in the livestream above. ...

Created on 24 July 2017

15. George O. Wood, Other Evangelical Leaders Come to Jared Kushner's Defense

Jared Kushner, a senior adviser to his father-in-law, President Donald Trump, was grilled Monday morning by senators on the Senate Intelligence Committee over his contacts with Russian officials. Kushner ...

Created on 24 July 2017

16. Meet the Woman Who Is Holding Up the Repeal of Obamacare

Most of the time, the Republican presiding officer of the U.S. Senate, regardless of which one is pulling the duty at any particular time, is reading from a script written by a close Democratic Party ally ...

Created on 24 July 2017

17. The White House Is Still Fighting for the Repeal of Obamacare

... e Congress, a vote to begin the debate on the repeal and replace of Obamacare, and President Trump and I are urging every member of the United States Senate to vote to begin this debate," he said. "Ev ...

Created on 21 July 2017

18. This Could Be the Greatest Entitlement Reform in a Generation

The Senate health care bill (the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017) would fundamentally reform federal Medicaid payment. As Washington Post columnist George Will has written, the bill's Medicaid provisions ...

Created on 21 July 2017

19. There's a New Health Care Bill

... sions would take effect in 2020, after a two-year delay. Congress then will have time to work on a separate replace bill." As its name implies, the bill uses the Senate's budgetary "reconciliation" process, ...

Created on 21 July 2017

20. Senate Republicans Have Just One Last Chance With Conservatives

The implosion of the Senate leadership's Obamacare replacement package, which included a version of the conservative "Consumer Freedom Option" advocated by Senators Ted Cruz and Mike Lee, has made it perfect ...

Created on 20 July 2017