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Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, said the Medicaid expansion should end after this year, instead of in 2020. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Rep. Joe Barton seeks to shorten Medicaid expansion transition

Robert King · March 8, 2017 4:16 pm

The Palmer-Schweikert amendment would set aside $15 billion for states to reimburse health insurance for covering sicker patients. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Freedom Caucus: House doesn’t have votes for health plan

Robert King · March 8, 2017 3:09 am

The House and Senate conservatives' plan resembles one previously introduced by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky, right. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Conservatives plan their own Obamacare replacement

Robert King · March 7, 2017 9:19 pm

Conservative group is perturbed the bill doesn't include a provision to let insurers sell across state lines. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Club for Growth opposes health plan it calls ‘Ryancare’

Robert King · March 7, 2017 5:19 pm

Michael Needham, CEO of Heritage Action, is upset that a Republican plan to repeal and partially replace Obamacare expands on the healthcare law's "flawed progressive premises."

Heritage slams GOP Obamacare replacement plan

Robert King · March 7, 2017 4:23 pm

The GOP Obamacare replacement plan would change how tax credits are given out to pay down the cost of insurance. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, File)

Who gets tax credits under GOP health plan

Robert King · March 7, 2017 4:12 am

The tax credits proposed by Republicans would be age-based, not income-based as they are under Obamacare. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House unveils Obamacare replacement

Robert King · March 6, 2017 11:00 pm

House Republicans want to remind people of Obamacare's problems as they prepared to introduce their plan to repeal the healthcare law. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)

House highlights laundry list of Obamacare investigations

Robert King · March 6, 2017 4:26 pm

"This will be investigated. This will all come out. I will be proven right," Trump said Saturday, according to Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

National Security

Trump said he’ll be ‘proven right’ on Obama wiretaps, according to Newsmax CEO

Robert King · March 5, 2017 10:44 pm

Comey argued that the claim is false and must be corrected, but so far the Justice Department hasn't released any statement on the claim, the New York Times reported. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

National Security

FBI asked Justice Department to rebut Trump wiretap claims: Report

Robert King · March 5, 2017 10:02 pm

Roger Stone, political consultant for President-elect Donald Trump, boards an elevator at Trump Tower in New York, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2016. CNN cited an anonymous source that Stone told Trump to get rid of Comey after he appeared at a Senate hearing last week. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Roger Stone claims ‘back channel’ to Assange

Robert King · March 5, 2017 9:55 pm

The allegations outlined in a Trump tweet on Saturday "paint a picture of someone obsessed with conspiracy theories and detached from reality," said Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Hoyer, who spoke with a statue last week, calls Trump ‘detached from reality’

Robert King · March 5, 2017 9:36 pm