Sentences with phrase «senate health care proposal»

Vermont Independent Senator Bernie Sanders say the Republican Senate health care proposal is the «most harmful» piece of legislation he has ever seen.

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If the proposal doesn't comply with the Senate's rules, an ensuing fight could pit conservatives against moderates and institutionalists — and could edge Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R - KY) closer to completely eliminating the legislative filibuster, a move with far bigger implications than health care policy.

CNN: Senate votes to kill controversial contraception amendment The Senate voted Thursday to kill a controversial proposal pushed by Republicans that would allow employers to opt out of providing health care coverage that they disagree with on moral grounds.

U.S. Senate Democrats have identified new potential allies in their effort to scuttle the current health - care proposal: Republican governors, particularly those who helped expand Medicaid in their states under the Affordable Care care proposal: Republican governors, particularly those who helped expand Medicaid in their states under the Affordable Care Care Act.

While Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos looked on, Cuomo said there is «flexibility» in his executive budget proposal (he has already signaled a willingness to restore health care and education aid, as long as the overall $ 132.9 billion number doesn't grow).

At the same time, Cuomo knocked the Senate plan for its proposal to end the individual mandate that Americans must purchase health insurance under the Affordable Care Act.

The Assembly's one - house budget includes a $ 200 million reserve fund to help health care providers afford an increase in the statewide hourly minimum wage to $ 15, while the Senate's version doesn't address the wage issue at all, but does have a Paid Family Leave proposal.

The Republican Senate majority leader, Joseph L. Bruno, a frequent ally of the health care industry, said he had «serious differences» with the governor's proposals, and also took aim at his style.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- CNN has learned that — barring some unforeseen change - Democratic Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus will unveil a health care proposal Wednesday without the support of the three Republican senators - Charles Grassley, Mike Enzi and Olympia Snowe - he's been negotiating with for months.

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.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- In effort to show fellow Democrats he hears their deep concerns about his health care plan, Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus plans to make changes to his own proposal even before the committee starts voting Tuesday on hundreds of proposed amendments to the $ 774 billion dollar plan.

On Tuesday, the Republican Senate whip, Jon Kyl of Arizona, called Democrat Kent Conrad's proposal for cooperatives in lieu of a public option «a Trojan horse» for a government takeover of health care.

Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) today roundly criticized Republican leaders in the House of Representatives for releasing a FY 2012 Labor Health and Human Services appropriations package that puts politics over women's health by reviving unprecedented proposals to take away preventive care from women, which were rightly rejected by the Senate only monthHealth and Human Services appropriations package that puts politics over women's health by reviving unprecedented proposals to take away preventive care from women, which were rightly rejected by the Senate only monthhealth by reviving unprecedented proposals to take away preventive care from women, which were rightly rejected by the Senate only months ago.

Planned Parenthood commends the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Affairs, and Related Programs — and in particular, chairman Senator Patrick Leahy (D - VT)-- for drafting a spending proposal that defends women's access to essential reproductive health care.