Sentences with phrase «republican health care reform bill»
All eyes will be on D.C. — again — today, to see if the Trump administration and House Speaker Paul Ryan manage to cobble together enough support for the Republican health care reform bill to pass it.
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If this Republican Congress fails to pass a good healthcare bill, we should prepare for our next opportunity to reform health care — if such an opportunity ever arises.
In particular, the video cites Faso's «yes» vote on the health care reform bill, which has been a flashpoint for the left that is organizing against the Republican lawmaker.
Ironic, if Trump worked with moderate Republicans and Democratic Senators to implement a Health Care bill that lived up to what he promised during the campaign he could have enacted HC reform on Day 1 of his Presidency.
With two Republican senators all but locked in against it and Trump exerting pressure on them to pass it, U.S. Senate leaders can not lose another vote on the health care reform bill they plan to unveil today.
In separate interviews given over the last few weeks, Representatives Tammy Baldwin, the only openly lesbian member of Congress, and Barney Frank — who was heckled with anti-gay slurs during the health care reform rallies — have both signaled that the time is now right to move forward with the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (HR 3017), saying that, having counted the votes, they believe that there is enough support from both Republican and Democratic legislators to pass the House version of the bill.
More recently, given the inability of congressional Republicans to agree on health care reforms, it's becoming clear that if Congress can produce a tax reform bill at all, it will quite possibly repeal the state and local tax deduction.
Freshman Rep. John Faso is among the Republican House members who ventured out onto a limb for the health care reform bill, and now many have to pay a political price with nothing to show for their efforts.
After taking a pass on challenging Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand despite the fact that multiple polls showed him to be the Republican most likely to defeat her, Pataki launched a national PAC — Revere America — to spearhead a national petition drive calling for repeal of the health care reform bill.
WASHINGTON — A gargantuan tax cut for property taxpayers across upstate New York came one small step closer to reality Thursday as Senate Republicans revealed a health care reform bill that includes a provision that bars the state from charging upstate counties for a share of the cost of Medicaid.
Washington Post: GOP lawmakers, candidates pledge to repeal health - care legislation Even as House Democrats search for the votes to send a health - care reform bill to President Obama, dozens of Republican lawmakers and candidates have signed a pledge to back an effort to repeal the measure, should the GOP take control of either chamber of Congress after this fall's elections.
WASHINGTON (CNN)- As a health care reform bill sponsored by Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus got a cool reception from Republicans and some Democrats on Capitol Hill Wednesday, President Obama quietly held a White House meeting with two Senate sponsors of a rival health care proposal.
Composed of 58 Democrats and two Independents who caucus with the Democrats, the Senate Democratic Caucus potentially has the 60 votes necessary to break a Republican filibuster of the health care reform bill crafted by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
On two key Democratic legislative agenda items, a jobs bill and a comprehensive health care reform bill, Sen. Jon Kyl, R - Arizona, suggested Sunday that Senate Republicans may not support measures backed by leading Democrats on Capitol Hill.
And with the lack of Republican support for the stimulus bill, the relatively small (partisan) margin by which the House passed Waxman - Markey, the then - upcoming challenges of health care and financial regulatory reform dominating the legislative calendar, and concerns voiced about climate legislation by moderate Senate Democrats, success in the Senate was always a long - shot.
The bill died in the Senate in 2010, a victim of Tea Party - inspired Republican obstructionism and Obama's decision to spend his political capital to push health - care reform.