Sentences with phrase «pass health care reform legislation»
White House spokesman Bill Burton said Obama «thanked members of the Senate for their hard work so far and encouraged them to continue forward on this historic opportunity» to pass health care reform legislation.
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Cuban did not appear to subscribe to those beliefs himself, criticizing Trump over the failed Republican health care push, for lacking a «foundation» for tax reform, and for struggling to develop relationships with Democrats in order to get future legislation passed in Congress.
«The collapse of the Senate's healthcare strategy is a near - term negative for the GOP's broader legislative agenda, but we contend that failing to pass health care legislation dramatically increases the sense of urgency surrounding the tax reform conversation,» Boltansky wrote.
Pataki, who repeatedly referred to the health care reform legislation as «Obama care,» said Congress passed it even though a majority of Americans did not want it.
Washington — Central New York's three Democratic congressmen stood with their party Saturday night and voted for the landmark health care reform legislation that narrowly passed the House of Representatives.
The debate rages on about the wide health - care reform legislation passed last year, but a forum at the Flushing branch of the Queens Library Friday featured no rancor — only people determined to explain the new law and express concerns about its impact.
Breslin touted an autism law he helped pass mandating insurance companies cover the illness more comprehensively at an earlier age, legislation where higher portions of health insurance premiums pay for actual health care and a life insurance law he said reformed the industry.
Trying to pair both tax reform and health care into a potential 2018 reconciliation bill (in order to take advantage of the easier - to - clear hurdle of a simple majority to pass legislation) would not only be complex and messy but, it could also significantly hamper the reform of the tax system that many have called for.
WTF is going on?Well, the short of it is, at face value, that senator Graham has been uneasy about climate legislation for a little while — after health care reform passed, he made comments about energy reform being dead in the water, and long before that he'd drawn fire from his own party for working with Democrats and pursuing a bill that would price carbon.
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.
Rather than press forward with a climate bill in the Senate last summer, after the House had passed landmark legislation to curb carbon pollution, the administration repeated many of the same mistakes it made in pushing for health care reform.
John Schlitt, director of the Pew Home Visiting Campaign, a project of the Pew Center on the States, issued the following statement today, commenting on maternal and infant home visiting provisions included in health care reform legislation as passed by the 111th United States Congress.