Tag: Rand

15 MAR

‘The senator from Kentucky is now working for Putin’: John McCain slams Rand Paul for blocking Montenegro from joining NATO

Win McNamee/Getty Images Republican Sen. John McCain slammed his GOP colleague, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, on Wednesday after Paul blocked the passage of a treaty that would allow Montenegro to move forward with joining NATO, Defense News’ Joe Gould reported. “The senator from Kentucky is now working for Putin,” McCain said after Paul entered the Senate […]

10 MAR

Rand Paul calls the GOP’s Obamacare replacement ‘dead on arrival’

Screenshot via Twitter/Fox News Rand Paul had some terse words for the Republican Party’s health care bill on Thursday night. The Kentucky senator called the American Health Care Act (AHCA), “Obamacare Lite,” and said the legislation was “dead on arrival.” Paul’s comments echo statements he and some conservative Republicans made on Wednesday in opposition to […]

09 MAR

Rand Paul leads charge against GOP ‘Obamacare-lite’ plan, files repeal-only bill

Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky is one of several Republicans who have vowed to vote against the GOP’s bill to repeal-and-replace Obamacare. Instead, he has introduced legislation that would simply repeal the Affordable Care Act. House Republicans published their Obamacare replacement legislation, entitled the American Health Care Act, on Monday. Their 123-page proposal, which is […]

15 FEB

Rand Paul on investigating Trump controversies: ‘I just don’t think it’s useful,’ particularly when it’s ‘your own party’

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky on Tuesday suggested he’s not sold on the need for investigations into the mounting controversies roiling President Donald Trump’s administration. Paul said in a radio interview on the “Kilmeade and Friends” radio program Tuesday that he didn’t think it was prudent to launch “investigation after investigation” on […]