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A Senate resolution that would end US support for the Saudi-led invasion of Yemen may be using humanitarian concerns as a pretext to dethrone Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, analysts say. A bipartisan proposal to block any further US military assistance to the Saudi-led coalition waging war in Yemen is one step closer […]
Joe Raedle/Getty Images Senate leaders agreed to a massive two-year budget deal on Wednesday. Some House Democrats don’t like it because it does not include a solution for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) immigration program. Some House Republicans don’t like it because of its large increase in federal spending and its potential effects […]
Drew Angerer/Getty Images In their tax proposal, Senate Republicans are eliminating tax deductions for payments made by businesses in relation to sexual harassment settlements. Advocates of the move say it will discourage employers from protecting alleged perpetrators of workplace sexual harassment. The change will bring in less than $ 50 million in additional tax revenue […]
Reuters On Tuesday lawyers for Google, Facebook and Twitter were in Washington answering questions about the 2016 election but left Senators largely unsatisfied. Senators were left thinking the companies don’t have the ability to fully know what’s going on on their platforms as they operate now. Washington may seek to change that. We’ve done this before […]
AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster It’s looking more likely that the Senate will vote on a last-resort effort to repeal Obamacare. The so-called “skinny repeal” plan, if passed, would roll back certain aspects of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), including the individual and employer health insurance mandates, and lead to the House and Senate working together to compromise on […]
AP Two Republican senators effectively issued a death blow to the current form of the Senate GOP healthcare legislation on Monday night, throwing into doubt the future of Republican effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Sens. Jerry Moran of Kansas and Mike Lee of Utah announced Monday evening that they both would vote […]
AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty Senate Republicans on Thursday released an updated version of the Better Care Reconciliation Act, their plan to overhaul the US healthcare system. One of the biggest updates was an increase to the amount of money the bill allocated for confronting the opioid epidemic from $ 2 billion to $ 45 billion. The funding increase is […]
Alex Wong/Getty Images WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine said on Sunday she has extreme reservations about the U.S. Senate’s healthcare overhaul and does not think it will be able to pass this week. Collins, a moderate Republican who has not taken a formal stance on the bill, said she was concerned […]
If there was one goal Senate Republicans had set out to achieve in developing their health bill to show they were less “mean” than their colleagues in the House, it was to take away the House Republicans’ green light for insurers to once again discriminate against those with pre-existing health conditions. Senate Republicans were willing […]
Kevin Lamarque/Reuters The Senate Republican healthcare bill is set to be released on Thursday, and we’re already starting to get some indications of what it will look like. A discussion draft of the bill was circulating among lobbyists and some congressional staffers on Wednesday, and several reports have begun to detail the contours of the bill. The bill mirrors […]
