RSC close to supporting Obamacare repeal plan
5:15 PM, Mar 15, 2017
Republican Study Committee Chairman Mark Walker, R-N.C., said Wednesday that his large bloc of House Republicans are close to throwing their support behind GOP leaders' plan to repeal and replace Obamacare. "I'm as hopeful as I've been in the entire process," Walker said after his 100-plus-member caucus had lunch with Vice President MPence Wednesday. "The vice president came up today and said: 'I want to let you know that House conservatives, you guys in the Republican Study Committee, your co Read more
Conservatives press Pence for Medicaid changes in healthcare bill
2:58 PM, Mar 15, 2017
Conservative lawmakers are pressing the White House to end the Medicaid expansion sooner in a bill to repeal Obamacare, as the White House looks to take a larger role in negotiations over the beleaguered bill. Members of the Republican Study Committee, a collection of more than 100 lawmakers, met with Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday to express concerns about the American Health Care Act. House leadership also signaled that the White House will play a larger role in getting the bill passe Read more
Mike Pence: Assange's tweets about plan to undermine Trump 'absurd and frankly offensive'
1:57 PM, Mar 14, 2017
Vice President Mike Pence dismissed tweets by WikiLeaks founder and editor-in-chief Julian Assange on Tuesday asserting that Hillary Clinton and intelligence officials "close to" Pence are working to undermine Donald Trump's presidency in an effort to replace him. Speaking in a radio interview with Laura Ingraham on Tuesday, Pence said Assange's tweets are "absurd" and "frankly offensive." "I would find all of that dialogue to be absurd and frankly offensive," Pence said. "It is the greatest h Read more
Assange claims Hillary Clinton 'pushing' for a Pence takeover
10:22 AM, Mar 14, 2017
WikiLeaks founder and editor-in-chief Julian Assange said on Tuesday, without offering any proof, that Hillary Clinton and intelligence officials "close to" Vice President Mike Pence are working to undermine Donald Trump's presidency in an effort to replace him with his vice president. In the first of a pair of tweets from an account WikiLeaks said was activated by its founder , Assange claimed that Trump's 2016 presidential election opponent Hillary Clinton stated privately this month that sh Read more
Paul Ryan faces GOP unity test on Obamacare repeal
10:01 PM, Mar 11, 2017
House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., is laying it all on the line for repealing and replacing Obamacare. Ryan acknowledged to conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt that if Congress fails to pass the American Health Care Act, it will be a major "momentum killer" for the rest of the Republican agenda. Even though the Obamacare replacement has been nicknamed "Trumpcare" in honor of the new president, the plan is substantially Ryan's, in conjunction with allies House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Ke Read more
Mike Pence aims to dismiss 'fear-mongering' on healthcare
11:55 AM, Mar 11, 2017
With opposition building to a major GOP plan to repeal Obamacare, Vice President Mike Pence said that the plan would create an "orderly transition" from the controversial healthcare law. Pence spoke Saturday in Louisville, Ky., and gave a full-throated endorsement of the American Health Care Act, which guts Obamacare and partially replaces it. Pence's comments come after a week in which conservatives have opposed the bill as a new entitlement. Pence also sought to downplay whether anyone would Read more
Trump: We are making 'great progress with healthcare'
10:05 AM, Mar 11, 2017
President Trump on Saturday sought to once again quell concerns about a plan to repeal and partially replace Obamacare. "We are making great progress with healthcare," the president tweeted as the White House and GOP leadership is pushing through a bill that is getting severe pushback from conservatives. "Obamacare is imploding and will only get worse. Republicans coming together to get job done!" We are making great progress with healthcare. ObamaCare is imploding and will only get worse. Re Read more
Trump administration signals openness to amendments on Obamacare reform bill
6:54 PM, Mar 10, 2017
Conservative activists are hopeful that the Trump administration could pressure House Republican leaders to allow changes to the contentious Obamacare reform legislation presently making its way through committees. At a closed-door meeting Friday between Vice President Mike Pence, Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price and more than two dozen conservative grassroots leaders, Pence and Price were told that allowing amendments on the American Health Care Act was the best way to help it ove Read more
Pence to rally support for GOP healthcare bill in Rand Paul's backyard
10:31 AM, Mar 09, 2017
Vice President Mike Pence will travel to Louisville, Ky., this weekend as part of the Trump administration's publicity blitz for its newly unveiled Obamacare replacement bill, a White House official told the Washington Examiner on Thursday. Pence will meet with Gov. Matt Bevin, a steadfast critic of the sweeping healthcare law that congressional Republicans have vowed to repeal and replace. Bevin was one of several GOP governors who met with Trump and Pence last week to discuss healthcare and Read more
White House vows Trump-led full court press on Obamacare replacement
2:13 PM, Mar 08, 2017
The Trump administration will conduct a "full-court press" to promote part one of its legislative Obamacare repeal and replacement effort, an initiative which House Republicans introduced this week, White House spokesman Sean Spicer said Wednesday. "I think you will see a lot of travel and a lot of activity by the president and all of the administration," Spicer told reporters. Several White House officials, including Spicer and Vice President Mike Pence, have already done radio or television Read more
Conservatives looking to bargain with Trump, Ryan on Obamacare
12:01 AM, Mar 08, 2017
Conservatives in the House and Senate haven't given up hope that they can reshape Republican Obamacare replacement legislation to be more to their liking, despite mixed signals from the White House and congressional leadership. "What we have now is an opening bid," Rep. Mark Sanford, R-S.C., said during a Tuesday press conference in reference to the American Health Care Act unveiled by top Republicans. Sanford appealed to the president's reputation as a tough negotiator. "Inasmuch as President Read more
Mike Pence vs. the House Freedom Caucus?
7:17 PM, Mar 07, 2017
When Paul Ryan wanted to spend more money, his budget got blown up. When John Boehner tried the same thing earlier on, an axe suddenly came down on his head. And now that Obamacare repeal is on the table, Vice President Mike Pence must succeed where those House speakers failed. Specifically, Pence must win over the combative and determined House Freedom Caucus. Nothing less than the entire White House healthcare agenda rests on his ability to woo 40 of the most conservative representatives in t Read more
Mike Pence promises healthcare tweaks to win over House conservatives
4:52 PM, Mar 07, 2017
Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday huddled with Republicans who don't like the Republican bill to repeal and replace Obamacare, and promised the bill will be tweaked to earn their support. Pence, who was joined by Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, met with several small groups of GOP lawmakers, including members of the House Freedom Caucus, the most vocal opponents of the plan. "It was more an airing of concerns," Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., a key member of the conservative Re Read more
Mike Pence warns GOP lawmakers against healthcare revolt
3:37 PM, Mar 07, 2017
Vice President Mike Pence warned Republicans in a closed-door meeting Tuesday not to oppose the GOP plan to repeal Obamacare, and said voting against it would be a vote in favor of Obamacare. "If you like your Obamacare you can keep it," Pence told Republicans at a closed-door meeting Tuesday. "But the American people want change." Pence was sent to Capitol Hill just hours after Republicans released their proposed bill, which drew immediate complaints from Republicans who are pushing for a ful Read more
Trump packs schedule with Cabinet-level meetings
1:30 PM, Mar 06, 2017
President Trump packed his schedule with Cabinet-level meetings on Monday amid the roll-out of a new executive order related to immigration from Middle Eastern countries . Trump's series of meetings — which included a lunch with Vice President Mike Pence and dinner with his budget director – comes just days before congressional Republicans are set to unveil the full text of their highly-anticipated Obamacare replacement bill. And the closed-door conversations could also turn to the explosive a Read more
Pence says the press provides too little 'respect' for those it covers
8:38 AM, Mar 05, 2017
Vice President Mike Pence on Saturday called on the press to give more "respect" to the people it covers, providing a milder version of the often harsh criticism lodged against the mainstream media by President Trump. "These days, and I say this with the deepest respect ... it seems like in this short news cycle in which we live, that too often stories will make page one and drive news with, with just too little respect to the people who are affected or involved," Pence said at the annual Gridi Read more
Gov. Scott Walker thanks Trump for calling to check in on his mother at the hospital
8:19 PM, Mar 04, 2017
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker thanked President Trump on Saturday for calling in to check in on his mother, who he said is in the hospital. Walker also thanked Vice President Mike Pence and wife Karen Pence for their prayers. "Thanks to @POTUS for calling to check on my mother and for prayers from @VP and Karen Pence. She is doing much better now," Walker tweeted. Thanks to @POTUS for calling to check on my mother and for prayers from @VP and Karen Pence. She is doing much better now.— Sco Read more
Mike Pence demands AP apologize for publishing, refusing to take down story showing his wife's email address
5:19 PM, Mar 04, 2017
Vice President Mike Pence is demanding the Associated Press apologize for publishing and then refusing to take down a story with the email address of Karen Pence. "When we requested they take it down, they refused. The @AP owes my wife an apology," Pence tweeted Saturday, along with a copy of a letter to the news outlet from Mark Paoletta, counsel to the vice president. Last night the @AP published my wife's private email address, violating her privacy and our security...— Vice President Pe Read more
Mattis: 'Climate change' is a national security threat
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Byron York: Congress leads Trump down wrong path
03/14/17 11:17 PM
Trump Jr. says MSNBC's tax reveal was 'simply awesome'
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Ron DeSantis faces heat from both sides on Obamacare repeal
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Report: 13 boxes of Mike Pence's emails sent to Indiana Statehouse
7:14 AM, Mar 04, 2017
Thirteen boxes of Vice President Mike Pence's state-related emails were delivered by his attorneys to the Indiana Statehouse this week, to be archived as required by law, according to a report late Friday. The move, reported by the Indianapolis Star , happened Thursday, the same day the publication broke the story about the former Indiana governor's use of private email account to conduct state business. The AOL account was hacked last summer when a scammer sent an email to his contacts claimi Read more
Hillary Clinton found on a plane, reading about Mike Pence's emails
5:44 PM, Mar 03, 2017
Hillary Clinton, whose presidential ambitions in 2016 were hurt by an unauthorized email server scandal, was caught on camera apparently looking at a newspaper article about Vice President Mike Pence's personal email account that was hacked. The photo, which shows the former secretary of state reading a USA Today newspaper with the lead story headline "Pence used personal email in office," was reportedly snapped during a flight from Logan Airport in Boston to LaGuardia Airport in New York. C Read more
Pence on private email use: 'There's no comparison whatsoever' with Clinton server
3:45 PM, Mar 03, 2017
Vice President Mike Pence dismissed any comparison of his private email use as governor of Indiana with the private email use of Hillary Clinton when she served as secretary of state, telling reporters on Friday that he had complied with state laws when using an AOL account to conduct some government business. "There's no comparison whatsoever between Hillary Clinton's practice — having a private server, misusing classified information, destroying emails when they were requested by the Congress Read more
Pence: 'Finishing touches' left for Obamacare repeal bill
2:33 PM, Mar 03, 2017
House Republicans are putting the "finishing touches" on major legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare, with the plan expected to be out in the next few days, according to Vice President Mike Pence. Pence spoke in Wisconsin on Friday alongside House Speaker Paul Ryan and Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price. His comments come a day after some Republicans and Democrats were angry that they haven't been able to see the plan. "It's just gonna start happening in just a few days," Penc Read more
White House dismisses Pence's private email use as Indiana governor
1:49 PM, Mar 03, 2017
Vice President Pence's staff pushed back Friday against reports that, as governor of Indiana, Pence violated state law by conducting government business with his personal email account. "Similar to previous governors, during his time as governor of Indiana, Mike Pence maintained a state email account and a personal email account," Marc Lotter, spokesman for Pence, said in a statement issued Friday. "As then-Gov. Pence concluded his time in office, he directed outside counsel to review all of h Read more
Stuck in the 90s: Mike Pence's AOL email shows he's digitally inept, not evil
12:29 PM, Mar 03, 2017
Nobody has talked about AOL this much since "You've Got Mail," that 1998 romantic-comedy where Tom Hanks used email to steal the heart of Meg Ryan and win over all of America. But thanks to Vice President Mike Pence, the email domain is suddenly back in the news because of his digital ineptitude. In what's been billed as a bombshell, The Indianapolis Star reported that Pence used the AOL email service for state business while governor. But it doesn't make him a high-tech villain. If anything, Read more
The Pence email controversy is awkward as hell, but stop comparing it to the Clinton scandal
12:08 PM, Mar 03, 2017
Vice President Mike Pence was unwise to use a personal email account when he served as governor of Indiana, but it's a laughable to compare this new controversy to Hillary Clinton's private email server scandal. Pence used a private AOL email account to conduct official state business, and occasionally discuss homeland security issues, the Indianapolis Star reported Thursday evening. The vice president's account was also "compromised by a scammer" last summer. Interestingly enough, however, Read more
Pence used personal email for official business, was hacked: Report
8:51 PM, Mar 02, 2017
Vice President Mike Pence used a personal email account for state business as governor of Indiana, according to a report. Over an AOL email account, Pence discussed "sensitive matters and homeland security issues." The Indianapolis Star learned of the emails through a public records request. Current Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb's office released more than 30 pages from the AOL account. Pence was a vocal critic of Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server throughout the campaign. The rep Read more
Notre Dame splits the baby, invites Pence to commencement
3:10 PM, Mar 02, 2017
In 2009, there was a massive controversy at my alma mater over the invitation to President Obama to speak at commencement. Obama, whose no-compromise version of pro-abortion politics clashed directly with Catholic teaching on the sanctity of all human life, was objectionable to many of Notre Dame's graduating students that year, as well as alumni. Some of them attended his speech anyway. Some held an alternative commencement ceremony on South Quad with hundreds in attendance. The invitation als Read more
Pence, Price promise to 'lift the weight' of Obamacare
2:24 PM, Mar 02, 2017
Vice President Pence assured a group of small business owners and employees on Thursday that the Trump administration will soon "lift the weight of Obamacare" off of their backs. Speaking to workers at a picture frame manufacturer in Springdale, Ohio, Pence told an intimate group of small business executives that the White House is working day and night to repeal the Affordable Care Act and develop a market-based alternative that remedies issues like skyrocketing insurance premiums and lower-qu Read more
Jake Tapper calls out White House after Pence does interviews with all major networks except CNN
2:55 PM, Mar 01, 2017
The White House ruffled CNN anchor Jake Tapper after Vice President Mike Pence was made available for several interviews Wednesday but not with the network the administration fights with the most. In a Twitter message that morning, Tapper suggested the White House was being petty. "'Trivial fights' should be 'behind us,'" Tapper wrote, quoting a piece from Trump's joint session speech from the night before, "but hours later White House offers Vice President Pence interviews to every major U.S. Read more
Pence on immigration compromise: 'We'll see'
12:17 PM, Mar 01, 2017
Vice President Mike Pence said Wednesday that the administration could support a bipartisan compromise on immigration reform in the future as long as President Trump's priorities are implemented successfully. "He laid out a very clear agenda on ending illegal immigration, he talked about building a wall, he talked about border security, he talked about our efforts already at enhanced internal enforcement, more border agents," Pence said on the "Laura Ingraham Show" radio program of Trump's spee Read more
