Sentences with phrase «dadt repeal effort»

Yet even if the Obamacare repeal effort implodes, the threat to the industry won't entirely recede.

Kimmel has since actively railed against Obamacare repeal efforts, arguing that various proposals being debated by the law's opponents would gut protections for people like Billy born with pre-existing conditions, either by rolling back Obamacare's mandated insurance benefits for certain health conditions or allowing states to set up rules that would let insurers charge sick people more for their coverage.

Trump's support for an increased federal gas tax could influence the gas tax repeal effort in California.

Many Internet companies, including Facebook (fb), Google, and Netflix (nflx), are banding together this week to try to generate a wave of public support to protect the rules from Pai's repeal efforts.

Comedian and late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel tackled the latest Obamacare repeal effort head - on during his opening monologue last night, arguing that the bill being pushed by Louisiana GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy and others fails the so - called «Kimmel test» for people with pre-existing conditions — and that Cassidy «lied to [his] face» on the issue.

An increasing number of GOP senators are insisting that a repeal effort be accompanied by a simultaneous replacement plan for Obamacare (more on that below), and President - elect Trump actually echoed that same sentiment this week.

But the six - month waiting period could also complicate the Senate Republicans» repeal efforts, because it may run afoul of the chamber's complex reconciliation rules.

This is a predicament seven years in the making, since Republicans started swearing to repeal Obamacare as soon as they took control of the government, and it is one that the GOP has courted from the start of this year's repeal effort.

Although ACA repeal efforts have been eclipsed in Washington, consumers across the country are feeling the pain of the law's shortcomings.

Mass Audubon has also been a steadfast supporter of endangered species at the State House where it works to strengthen the law and defeat legislative repeal efforts.

Repeal efforts were complicated last month after Gates released a letter to Congress saying he would «strongly oppose» repeal before the Pentagon completes at year's end its study on the issue.

Democrats minimized their celebrations today in the wake of the stunning implosion of the GOP's Obamacare repeal efforts, putting the onus on Republicans to embrace bipartisan fixes to the health care law.

The chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee said the committee will still emphasize that Katko has supported ACA repeal efforts previously, according to Syracuse.com.

It's a ratcheting up of rhetoric by Cuomo, who has vowed to help unseat Republican House lawmakers in New York who backed Obamacare repeal efforts, namely a provision that would shift the burden of Medicaid spending from county governments to the state.

As for Katko, Long said the fact that he's from a moderate swing district is not an excuse for refusing to support the GOP's repeal effort.

Heller, who has complained that Obamacare repeal efforts could hurt Nevada residents dependent on Medicaid, nevertheless said he'd vote to move forward.

Tenant advocate Mike McKee and Mario Mazzoni, then the Council's director, both recall Klein telling them that he would quash their repeal efforts.

Tenney, R - New Hartford, is among only 10 vulnerable Republicans targeted nationally by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee for a series of digital ads critical of the GOP repeal effort.

As talk in Washington potentially moves toward a smaller, bipartisan agreement on making fixes to the Affordable Care Act and not a wholesale repeal, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday said he's not convinced the repeal effort is dead yet.

if Congress does not intervene, which could grow significantly if the latest Obamacare repeal effort is successful.

The CEO of Connecticut's health insurance exchange says regardless of what happens with the Obamacare repeal effort in Washington, rates and plans have been set for 2018.

Schumer declined to discuss when he became aware of McCain's decision to bring down the repeal effort he had voted to begin three days earlier.

In an email to constituents, 10th Ward Councilwoman Leah Golby said she continues to have reservations about the fee but called it a reasonable interim solution and the repeal effort «a political stunt.»

Repeal efforts in the Senate, where Democrats have a numerical majority, have been stymied by a breakaway faction of Democrats.

The call came in advance of the Democrats» planned «National Day of Action» against Republican repeal efforts on January 15.

Strategists on both sides of the issue acknowledge that the repeal effort is pure theater, aimed at fulfilling a Republican campaign promise to hold the vote and, hopefully, having the helpful side effect of pushing a few Democrats into another tough vote on the health care law.

As the battle over the law escalates, cancer patients and survivors are among the most vocal of groups raising alarms about the GOP's repeal effort.

Perhaps the two most obvious reasons are: 1) public opinion drives political actions in state legislatures, such as repeal efforts and efforts to adopt new assessments outside the Common Core - aligned consortia, and 2) public opinion likely affects schools» implementation, as politically active groups involve themselves in school board meetings, contact teachers directly to express their concerns, and «educate» parents with information or misinformation.

It was adopted by over 40 states, though repeal efforts in several places are underway.

Trump issued an executive order dismantling the Clean Power Plan, which slashed CO2 emissions from power plants and repealed efforts to reduce methane releases from oilfields.

As Vox's Dave Roberts explained, this repeal effort is going to be a huge mess.

Divest Harvard wrote a letter to Faust on Feb. 17 asking her to reconsider because of President Trump's promise to repeal efforts by the Obama administration to control emissions of greenhouse gases from fossil fuels.

The GOP repeal efforts could also result in less robust coverage being offered by small employers, depending on state approaches to health care reform.

«The law already has increased women's access to reproductive care, but baseless repeal efforts and lawsuits threaten to take away early gains and deny affordable health care to millions of Americans.»

Negotiations between the Republican and Democratic leaders of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee on how best to stabilize individual insurance markets that were underway since the last unsuccessful repeal effort have resumed.

But in the end, the legislation succeeded after a rushed, secretive process that began in earnest only after the Senate gave up on its Obamacare - repeal efforts in September.

Not exact matches

Collins, a moderate who voted against the GOP's efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare earlier this year, says the bills will offset the impact of the loss of the individual mandate, but experts largely disagree, arguing that the elimination of the mandate will spike health costs and reduce choice in plans.

And we heard a variation of that theme late last week from Mick Mulvaney, the former South Carolina Congressman and Freedom Caucuser who now heads the Office of Management and Budget — and who, importantly, has been one of the Trump Administration's key emissaries in the effort to repeal and replace Obamacare.

But the saga of Republicans» efforts to repeal Obamacare isn't over yet.

This has been a tumultuous year for Obamacare (aka the Affordable Care Act), to put it lightly, with multiple efforts by the GOP - led Congress to repeal or otherwise gut the seven - year - old health law.

The president's signature campaign issue was «repeal and replace Obamacare» and to date, the effort has failed.

The New York Times» Margot Sanger - Katz points out that earlier studies by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)-- the independent scorekeepers who keep tabs on how legislation affects the budget and the country and whose report on the GOP repeal - and - replace effort last week sent Obamacare opponents into disarray — found that simply repealing Obamacare would only lead to 23 million fewer uninsured Americans.

The case in point, of course, is Tea Party Texas Senator Ted Cruz, who spearheaded an effort to tie the GOP's campaign to repeal Obamacare to the process of renewing funding for the federal government.

«Regretfully, it is now apparent that the effort to repeal and immediately replace the failure of Obamacare will not be successful,» McConnell said in a statement that sounded like a death knell to the GOP's promises to repeal Obamacare and replace it with something better.

Because of Weill's efforts — he was instrumental in getting repealed the Glass - Steagall Act, a Depression - era law prohibiting commercial banks and retail banks from operating together — banks can now serve Main Street and Wall Street simultaneously.

The GOP Senate's efforts to repeal Obamacare with its own health care bill have been on the brink of defeat over the past 48 hours.

Trump lunched with critical Republican Senate caucus members in an effort to woo them to repeal Obamacare Wednesday.

The Republican lawmaker has been feuding with local media over his seven - year efforts to repeal Indiana laws that require citizens to have a permit to carry a handgun.

President Donald Trump and leading Republicans have portrayed the markets as on the verge of collapse, and have cast their own effort to repeal and replace the Obama health overhaul as a rescue mission.

But his plan is meeting the same internal Republican tensions between moderates and conservatives that have sunk his efforts this year to repeal the Obamacare health law.