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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
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- 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
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- White House Officials Blast Effort To Repeal Health-care Reform
As House Republicans planned to pass a bill tomorrow that would repeal last year's Affordable Care Act for health care and health insurance, officials of a freshly business-friendly Obama administration said today that repeal makes "bad business sense."...
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McConnell's health care repeal fails on party-line vote
The Senate voted along strictly partisan lines tonight not to repeal the health-care reform law of 2010, but Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky vowed to keep trying.
All 50 Democrats present and one independent voted "no" on the repeal amendment McConnell filed Tuesday. All 47 Republicans voted in favor of repeal, The Washington Post's Felicia Sonmez reports. Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Mark Warner (D-Va.) were not present.
For repeal to pass, Republicans would need 13 Democrats to cross party lines. Despite the fact that four Democratic Senators ? Joe Manchin (W.Va.), Claire McCaskill (Mo.), Jon Tester (Mont.), and Ben Nelson (Neb.) ? are already facing tough re-election bids, none of them did.
Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., who recently announced that he would not seek re-election, said repealing the law would "significantly worsen the deficit, a fact confirmed by the Congressional Budget Office." Conrad, the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, said that debt would increase by more than $1.4 trillion if repeal passed.
McConnell retorted with a line he has used before: "Only in Washington would somebody claim that spending trillions of dollars on a brand new government entitlement and a massive bureaucracy to go along with it will save money."
McConnell's measure, which matched the House's version of repeal, was one of three amendments proposed to an unrelated bill dealing with funds for the Federal Aviation Administration. Easily passed 81-17 was an amendment to repeal a tax-reporting provision of the health law that many said was too much to ask of small businesses. A similar amendment, which would have paid for itself by repealing oil companies' tax breaks, fell short 44-54. (Read more)
McConnell's measure, which matched the House's version of repeal, was one of three amendments proposed to an unrelated bill dealing with funds for the Federal Aviation Administration. Easily passed 81-17 was an amendment to repeal a tax-reporting provision of the health law that many said was too much to ask of small businesses. A similar amendment, which would have paid for itself by repealing oil companies' tax breaks, fell short 44-54. (Read more)
- 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...
- 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...
- White House Officials Blast Effort To Repeal Health-care Reform
As House Republicans planned to pass a bill tomorrow that would repeal last year's Affordable Care Act for health care and health insurance, officials of a freshly business-friendly Obama administration said today that repeal makes "bad business sense."...