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- 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...
- Success Of Kynect Puts Both Senate Candidates In A Pickle
"The early success of Kentucky?s health care exchange, Kynect, is creating quandaries for both Mitch McConnell and Alison Lundergan Grimes as they address Obamacare" in Kentucky's U.S. Senate race," James R. Carroll reports for The Courier-Journal....
- 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...
- Mcconnell Helped Amgen Delay Price Limits On Dialysis Drug
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, whose public statements usually emphasize the need to cut federal spending on entitlement programs, as they did in Lexington Friday, apparently passed up an opportunity to rein in Medicare spending...
- 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...
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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 Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Act authorizes $12.6 million a year for 10 years, McConnell press secretary Robert Steurer said in an email.
McConnell's likely Democratic opponent in the November election, Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes, said he delayed passage of the bill, but McConnell's office blamed Democratic objections.
McConnell said in a floor speech, "As a survivor of polio as a child, I have always empathized with children battling life-threatening or disabling disorders," and it is "about time" this bill passed. It goes to President Barack Obama for his signature, reports Joseph Gerth of The Courier-Journal.
Grimes found fault with McConnell's written reply to an inquiry about the bill, telling the constituent he would "keep your support in mind." Gerth reports, "McConnell's Senate office on Tuesday said that the Senate Republican Caucus had agreed to unanimously support the measure on Jan. 7."
The proposed Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Act authorizes $12.6 million a year for 10 years, McConnell press secretary Robert Steurer said in an email.
McConnell's likely Democratic opponent in the November election, Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes, said he delayed passage of the bill, but McConnell's office blamed Democratic objections.
McConnell said in a floor speech, "As a survivor of polio as a child, I have always empathized with children battling life-threatening or disabling disorders," and it is "about time" this bill passed. It goes to President Barack Obama for his signature, reports Joseph Gerth of The Courier-Journal.
Grimes found fault with McConnell's written reply to an inquiry about the bill, telling the constituent he would "keep your support in mind." Gerth reports, "McConnell's Senate office on Tuesday said that the Senate Republican Caucus had agreed to unanimously support the measure on Jan. 7."
- 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...
- Success Of Kynect Puts Both Senate Candidates In A Pickle
"The early success of Kentucky?s health care exchange, Kynect, is creating quandaries for both Mitch McConnell and Alison Lundergan Grimes as they address Obamacare" in Kentucky's U.S. Senate race," James R. Carroll reports for The Courier-Journal....
- 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...
- Mcconnell Helped Amgen Delay Price Limits On Dialysis Drug
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, whose public statements usually emphasize the need to cut federal spending on entitlement programs, as they did in Lexington Friday, apparently passed up an opportunity to rein in Medicare spending...
- 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...