Tag: Patty Murray

The goal is to bolster the healthcare bills to help compensate for the loss of the individual mandate. (iStock photo)

Senators battle over changes to Obamacare bills

Robert King · February 8, 2018 7:48 pm

On Thursday, leaders from the House and Senate were on track to reaching a spending deal that would fund the government continuously for two years. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Congress on track for Thursday vote to avoid government shutdown, lay groundwork for budget deal

Susan Ferrechio · February 8, 2018 6:36 pm

Republican leaders said Wednesday they support the deal as a way to ensure more defense spending, and note it would also create a bipartisan committee that will try to recommend new budgeting reforms. (iStock photo)

Conservatives accuse GOP of ditching fiscal restraint with new spending deal

Pete Kasperowicz · February 8, 2018 12:54 pm

Mac Thornberry on budget deal: ‘If you vote ‘no,’ you are voting against fixing the military’

Travis J. Tritten · February 7, 2018 10:40 pm

Democrats sent a letter on Tuesday to National Labor Relations Board member William Emanuel Tuesday, asking him why he did not recuse himself from a case as his former law firm represented one of the clients. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick, File)

Democrats demand to know why NLRB member didn’t recuse himself in major case

Sean Higgins · February 7, 2018 12:53 am

Vice President Mike Pence will be a key fundraising and bankrolling figure as the Republican Party approaches what looks to be brutal midterm elections this year. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Mike Pence prioritizes Trump loyalists, swing districts in 2018 fundraising

David M. Drucker · February 6, 2018 5:01 am

Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., said that initial bipartisan talks with Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn, were stymied in September as Republicans wanted another shot at repealing Obamacare. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Patty Murray: ‘Good news’ that GOP giving up on Obamacare repeal

Robert King · February 1, 2018 8:47 pm

In his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Trump did not say he had any intention of eliminating any other part of Obamacare, after the law's individual mandate was repealed last year. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Republican lawmakers take Trump’s Obamacare repeal snub in stride

Robert King · January 31, 2018 5:01 am

"I think the sense is we are probably going to have a short-term CR," Meadows said Tuesday. "The question is: What is attached to it?" (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Conservatives may demand infrastructure money in next spending bill

Susan Ferrechio · January 30, 2018 5:12 pm

Throughout his two-plus years as speaker, Paul Ryan has been able to maintain a tenuous peace within the House Republican conference, a group of politicians with wildly divergent views and styles that proved unmanageable for Boehner and that might have been unable to settle on a leader if Ryan hadn't been drafted in 2015. (Illustration by Nate Beeler for the Washington Examiner)

Paul Ryan gets it done

Joseph Lawler · January 30, 2018 5:01 am

Proponents of the legislation, the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, say that a fetus can feel pain at 20 weeks, but opponents argue with that assessment and say that women who have abortions late in a pregnancy tend to be faced with test results that reveal when a baby is born it with die or face lifelong disabilities. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate rejects bill banning abortion after 20 weeks

Kimberly Leonard · January 29, 2018 11:15 pm

Rosie O'Donnell's simple query was used as an opportunity for people to demonstrate their wokeness. (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP)

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Rosie O’Donnell slammed as sexist for wondering why Sen. Patty Murray is always frowning

Emily Jashinsky · January 23, 2018 4:07 pm