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Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said on Fox News Sunday that the Senate would somehow vote on whether or not to repeal the health-reform law.
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McConnell says Senate will vote on repeal of health reform law
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said on Fox News Sunday that the Senate would somehow vote on whether or not to repeal the health-reform law.McConnell's Democratic counterpart, Majority Leader Harry Reid, has declared the House-passed repeal bill "dead on arrival" in the Senate, but Senate rules provide several ways that the issue could be put to a vote.
McConnell called the new law "the single worst piece of legislation" passed while he has been a senator. He said if the Senate does not vote for repeal, opponents will attempt to dismantle the law item by item. (Read more from The Associated Press)
- Sen. Mitch Mcconnell Faces Diverse Pressures On The Question Of Repealing The Federal Health-reform Law
Incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he still wants to get rid of Obamacare, and the Kentuckian is "under rapidly increasing pressure from conservatives to pursue an aggressive path to repealing the landmark health care law," but it won't...
- Senate Oks Bill To Fund Pediatric Cancer And Autism Research
With the backing of Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, the U.S. Senate has passed a bill designed to assist in funding research of pediatric cancer and autism, funded by money now used to pay for presidential campaigns and party conventions. The proposed...
- Beshear Says Ky. Is 'gold Standard' For Implementing Obamacare, Trades Shots With Mcconnell In Washington
"Kentucky has become the gold standard when it comes to implementing the Affordable Care Act, and I'm very proud of that," Gov. Steve Beshear said Thursday morning at a press conference in Washington with Democrats in the U.S. House. "There is a tremendous...
- Delaying Individual Mandate, As Gop Now Proposes, Would Wreck Exchanges And Obamacare, Democratic Aide Warns; Mcconnell Says Republicans Can't Get Democratic Votes They Need In Senate
The key piece of the latest House Republican legislation to keep the federal government running ? a one-year delay of the federal health-reform law and its requirement for individuals to make sure they are covered ? "would have serious consequences" for...
- Mcconnell Calls For One-year Delay In Reform Law's Key Requirement, That Americans Buy Health Insurance
U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnellU.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell is calling for a one-year delay in the requirement for almost all Americans to buy health insurance, followed by repeal of the federal health-reform law. The Obama administration has said it will delay...