Sentences with phrase «republican health care bill»

Governor Cuomo & State health officials held a press conference this morning, blasting Congressman Chris Collins of Buffalo and area congressman John Faso for supporting the House Republican health care bill and the push to have the state assume county... Continue reading →

WASHINGTON — The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee this week will target Rep. Chris Collins, a prominent supporter of both President Trump and the failed Republican health care bill, with the group's first web ad of the 2018 campaign season.

Witnesses said he grabbed Ben Jacobs, a reporter for the Guardian newspaper, and slammed him to the ground after being asked about the Republican health care bill.

Bill Samuels, a well - known New York progressive, called the Republican health care bill «otherwise calamitous,» but nonetheless supported the idea of the state's picking up billions in costs.

Representative Chris Collins, center, co-sponsored an amendment to the Republican health care bill that would have New York's state government assume certain Medicaid costs.

«The Senate Republican health care bill continues the ultra-conservative assault on New Yorkers and our values,» Cuomo said.

The unusually harsh tone followed Miner's participation in a «Pink the Night Out» rally in front of the Syracuse Planned Parenthood office on Wednesday afternoon to call attention to the impact of the Republican health care bill under consideration by Congress.

KINGSTON, N.Y. >> A relatively well - behaved but largely angry audience of about 100 people met Monday with U.S. Rep. John Faso to ask questions and air their apprehensions about the Republican health care bill recently approved by the House.

Rep. Paul Tonko, D - Amsterdam, charged through a Capitol Hill basement to get a sneak peek at the top secret Republican health care bill Thursday, but the document was nowhere to be found.

Washington (CNN) White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Tuesday «it's possible» President Donald Trump will seek more changes to the Republican health care bill before Thursday's House vote.

Motivated by the Republican health care bill, Kelly Mazeski, a breast cancer survivor, will run against Representative Peter Roskam in Illinois's Sixth District.

Earlier this year, Katko split with party leaders to vote against the Republican health care bill that would have dismantled the Affordable Care Act.

Frelinghuysen, chair of the Appropriations Committee, is a Democratic target this cycle, and he's facing fresh heat for voting for the Republican health care bill last week.

Just five months into his first term, Faso is being hammered for his support of the Republican health care bill and his broken promise to protect people with pre-existing conditions.

Faso, a former minority leader of the state Assembly and the GOP candidate for New York governor in 2006, has taken heat during his brief time in Congress for voting in favor of the Republican health care bill in the House and for refusing to hold town hall - style meetings with constituents in his district.

KINGSTON, N.Y. >> Democratic U.S. Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney was greeted like a visiting rock star during his «adopt a district» meeting in Kingston with people upset about the Republican health care bill passed by the House.

At 1 p.m., Rep. Kathleen Rice will hold a press availability after meeting with health care workers and patients to discuss the care they receive and how it would be affected by Medicaid cuts in the Republican health care bill, TownHouse Center for Rehabilitation & Nursing, 755 Hempstead Turnpike, Uniondale.

Rep. Paul Tonko, a Capital Region Democrat, charged through a Capitol Hill basement to get a sneak peek at the top secret Republican health care bill yesterday, but the document was nowhere to be found.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a statement took a victory lap after the House Republican health care bill was yanked on Friday afternoon.

«The Republican health care bill is an assault on women and an assault on New York,» Cuomo said.

Speaker Paul Ryan says the collapse of the House Republican health care bill means former President Barack Obama's health care law will be around for the foreseeable future.

U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand says people need to «fight back» against the proposed Republican health care bill.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand talked to reporters about the Republican health care bill during a stop in Buffalo on Friday.

A revised U.S. Senate Republican health care bill will likely retain a pair of tax boosts former President Barack Obama imposed on wealthier Americans that have helped finance his law's expansion of coverage, a leading Senate Republican said.

New York's top Democrats, who don't always see eye - to - eye, spoke out with one voice yesterday against the Republican health care bill.

(Mr. Cuomo also omitted Mr. King from his six, as well as Representative Dan Donovan, a Staten Island Republican, and Representative John Katko, a moderate Republican from the Syracuse area, both of whom voted against the Republican health care bill.)

MANHATTAN — Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio set aside their differences Monday to stand together against the pending Republican health care bill at a rally hosted by Mount Sinai Hospital.

A relatively well - behaved but largely angry audience met yesterday with Rep. John Faso to ask questions and air their apprehensions about the Republican health care bill recently approved by the House.

President Donald Trump promised a «great, great surprise» on the Senate Republican health care bill as McConnell worked to restart the stalled legislation.

Dubbed «Ryancare» or «Trumpcare» (over the objection of White House staff), the Republican health care bill is under attack from left and right, with even conservative leaders calling it «Obamacare Lite», «bad policy», a «warmed - over substitute,» and «dead on arrival.»

Protesters against the Republican health care bill gather inside the office of Sen. Rob Portman, R - Ohio, in Washington on July 17, 2017.

Not exact matches

The bill is called the American Health Care Act and it would fulfill a long - running Republican goal — repealing and replacing much of former President Barack Obama's 2010 Affordable Care Act, commonly called Obamacare.

Republicans pulled their health care bill Friday after failing to garner enough votes to pass Donald Trump's plan intended to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, leaving the law better known as Obamacare in place for care bill Friday after failing to garner enough votes to pass Donald Trump's plan intended to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, leaving the law better known as Obamacare in place for Care Act, leaving the law better known as Obamacare in place for now.

U.S. government debt prices were mixed on Friday as investors awaited a vote on the Republican - led health - care bill.

U.S. stock index futures pointed to a mixed open on Friday as traders await a vote for the Republican - led health - care bill.

Should it somehow pass muster with the Senate (which, in the bill's current form, I can not imagine), it might end up doing what Republicans seem to fear most: enshrining a citizen right to basic health care.

What remains to be seen is if the tax bill will end up being a better bet for Republicans than the health care bill was for Democrats — who lost control of Congress largely as a result.

When the Congressional Budget Office reported that the AHCA stood to strip 24 million people of their health insurance, Congressional Republicans divided into two camps — those who disliked the bill for fear that it would harm their constituents (not to mention their own electoral prospects) and those who did not feel that the bill went far enough in rolling back the «socialism» of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

«Republicans should start from scratch and work with Democrats on a bill that lowers premiums, provides long term stability to the markets and improves our health care system.»

Quick recovery in stock market after news Republicans pulling health care bill.

Republicans expressed more favorable views of the health care bill, with 48 % of them approving.

Republicans in Congress are refusing to approve a temporary spending bill, demanding changes or elimination of Obama's 2010 health care law.

Only one in five Americans approve of the Republican - backed health care bill that the House of Representatives passed last week, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll.

U.S. government debt prices were flat on Friday as investors awaited a vote on the Republican - led health - care bill.

After Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell unveiled his first health care bill on June 22, it was almost immediately clear it would not pass without compromises between the Republican Party's various factions.

Senate Republican leaders on Thursday unveiled a reworked version of their health care bill, following party infighting that threatened to torpedo their effort to replace the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamaccare bill, following party infighting that threatened to torpedo their effort to replace the Affordable Care Act, also known as ObamacCare Act, also known as Obamacare.

Trump over the weekend on Twitter ridiculed Senate Republicans for not passing a health care bill, saying Democrats were laughing at them and they «look like fools.»

When Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell selected the group of 13 lawmakers who would work on drafting a health care bill to replace the Affordable Care Act in May, none of the five female Republican Senators were inclucare bill to replace the Affordable Care Act in May, none of the five female Republican Senators were incluCare Act in May, none of the five female Republican Senators were included.

Republicans are using what's called «budget reconciliation» to pass their health care bill with a bare majority of 50 votes and avoid a Democratic filibuster.

2017's gathering also included a visit from Susan Collins, one of three Republican senators voting «No» to the hastily - crafted skinny repeal health care bill.