Sentences with phrase «of repeal efforts»

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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.

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.

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Because of Weill's efforts — he was instrumental in getting repealed the Glass - Steagall Act, a Depression - era law prohibiting commercial banks and retail banks from operating together — banks can now serve Main Street and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

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.

This past summer, when Congress considered ditching the individual mandate as part of a «skinny repeal» — an effort that ultimately failed — the CEO of America's Health Insurance Plans cautioned Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer that, should the mandate go, «premiums will rise rapidly, few or no affordable coverage options will be available and more people will be uninsured.»

Regardless of legislative repeals, supporters of Michelle Obama's efforts to get healthier food into mainstream America believe the impact of her work can not be undone.

While the agency spent much of 2017 focusing on the administration's efforts to repeal Obamacare, this past month CMS issued a series of new proposals aimed at promoting greater interoperability of digital health - care records.

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.

Gabe Elsner, director of the Energy and Policy Institute, told the Guardian that after disappointing state efforts in 2013, ALEC is now focusing on weakening clean energy standards rather than repealing them.

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.

The House's move is part of a broader GOP agenda - such as the effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act - to reduce the size and influence of the federal government on everyday life.

Those conditions, meant to make sure reconciliation is actually used for bills that affect the budget, are one of the final obstacles for the GOP's repeal - and - replace effort will have to overcome.

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.

«Efforts to set privacy standards have been ignored or even repealed,» said Rep. Frank Pallone (D - NJ), ranking member of the House committee Zuckerberg will testify before on Wednesday.

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin is among the Republicans from outside California who have contributed to the campaign to repeal the state's gas - tax increase, showing the effort has national interest from GOP leaders who see it as a way to boost their party's chances in the Golden State for this year's election.

A number of Republican House members insisted on only a partial repeal in the House bill, but the Senate has gone for a full repeal in an effort to raise more money to pay for tax cuts elsewhere.

As I previously have written, repeal of the personal exemption might adversely affect large and non-traditional families, a possibility that the original reform and Senator Cruz's subsequent effort would mitigate (but not eliminate) by doubling the child tax credit.

As with his efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare, Trump has left many of the details of the plan in the hands of congressional leadership.

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

In 1774 another blunder of the British strengthened Puritan suspicions that a concerted effort was under way to repeal the religious and political liberties of the colonies.

FRC gained attention in the last days of the campaign for its advertising against Joseph Cao — a Republican congressman from Louisiana who supported hate - crimes legislation and an effort to repeal the military's «don't ask, don't tell» policy on openly homosexual service members.

Every politician that demanded repeal instead of making an honest effort to fix the ACA should be ashamed.

It's notable to me that even the Food Research and Action Center (one of the nation's leading anti-hunger nonprofits), strongly opposes the recent efforts by Iowa Congressman Steve King to repeal the calorie caps.

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.

The eleventh - hour attempt by Republicans in the U.S. Senate to repeal the Affordable Care Act once seemed like the longest of long shots, but now appears to have a chance — albeit slim — at passage, even though it has been deemed the most «radical» of all the Obamacare reform efforts the GOP has debated thus far.

Some health care officials were initially concerned that efforts to repeal aspects of the Affordable Care Act would put a dent in enrollment.

Senate GOP lawmakers since the passage of the SAFE Act have largely resisted efforts to pass new gun control measures, though pushes to repeal the law have faltered.

The effort aims to capture «health care voters» who would be motivated by the issue of repealing the ACA, commonly referred to as Obamacare.

The state Democratic Committee is releasing a video as part of its ongoing fight against the Republican - led efforts in Congress to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

A once - quiet effort by governors to block the full repeal of the Affordable Care Act reached its climax in Washington yesterday, as state executives from both parties — who have conspired privately for months — mounted an all - out attack on the Senate's embattled health care legislation hours before Republicans postponed a vote.

Rather than spend significant capital, marshalling the necessary resources for a full repeal, Trump is likely to use a more executive strategy, in an effort to chip away at the foundation of Dodd - Frank.

With little power left in Washington, Democrats set out on Sunday to make a big statement against GOP efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act with rallies in dozens of cities.

He said New York would also become the epicenter of «repeal and replace» efforts, leading the resistance to the bill.

Senate Democrats are making a final push to gather support needed for U.S. Sen. Edward Markey's effort to undo the Federal Communications Commission's repeal of Obama - era internet net neutrality rules.

Once the ACA was fully implemented, I'm not aware of any serious efforts to simply repeal it.

In his first on - camera remarks about the health care stalemate in the U.S. Senate, President Donald Trump said that Republicans should now «let ObamaCare fail» following the collapse of their effort to repeal and replace the law.

In an effort to quiet the concerns of residents who are rattled by the barrage of late - night explosions, Schenectady County legislators last night repealed the legal use of small fireworks.

The group on Tuesday released its legislative score cards for the 213 members of the Legislature on Tuesday, using three measurements: Their vote on the 2013 SAFE Act, the unsuccessful effort in 2015 to repeal it in the Senate and whether the lawmaker is a sponsor of a safe - storage bill, known as Nicholas's Law.

«From day one, we said this campaign to repeal and replace John Faso would be fueled by a grassroots effort, and with nearly $ 135,000 raised in less than eight weeks from nearly 700 donations — many of whom contributed $ 19 to flip NY - 19 — we have shown that we can stand up to Trump and repeal and replace Faso by relying on overwhelming grassroots energy, excitement and support,» Rhodes said in a statement.

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 initiative included television ads, online videos and robo - calls, however, despite the DCCC's best efforts, the plan was ineffective as the Republican controlled House repealed all or parts of the Affordable Care Act more than 33 times.

Finley expressed displeasure with the lack of action on health - care reform, asking what happened to straight repeal of the Affordable Care Act — an idea that has been supplanted by repeal - and - replace efforts.

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.

«Sparked by the conservative activist group Club for Growth,» the repeal movement has won the support of Sen. Jim DeMint (R - SC) and House Minority Leader John Boehner (R - OH), who said Republicans would «have an effort to repeal the bill.»

While some gun rights advocates hailed the MOU as a step in the right direction toward their ultimate goal of full repeal, something to which the governor would never agree, others derided it as meaningless lip service, and an effort by Cuomo to help Flanagan placate those on the right who are still seething over his «yes» vote on the SAFE Act in January 2013.