Tag: Senate

Demonstrators rally outside of the Capitol as the Republican majority in Congress remains stymied by their inability to fulfill their political promise on Obamacare.

Partisan sniping dooms Obamacare bills

Robert King · March 21, 2018 7:21 pm

Customers in the individual markets will need help buying insurance, Sen. Lamar Alexander says. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Lamar Alexander: ‘Zero’ chance Obamacare bill gets passed if not in spending bill

Robert King · March 20, 2018 10:33 pm

President Donald Trump speaks to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), at National Harbor, Md., Friday, Feb. 23, 2018.

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The Trumpian solution to the enthusiasm gap in 2018? A bigger and better alternative to CPAC

Siraj Hashmi · March 20, 2018 8:44 am

Pharmaceutical, hospital industries go to war over drug discount program

Robert King · March 20, 2018 4:00 am

"We want to make sure that people with pre-existing conditions continue to get covered," said House Energy and Commerce Chair Greg Walden. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Abortion backlash dims prospects for Obamacare stabilization

Robert King · March 20, 2018 1:03 am

Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., left, and Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, walk to a closed-door GOP meeting before the Senate moves to pass a modest, bipartisan budget bill, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2013.

Republicans propose billions in new Obamacare funding

Kimberly Leonard · March 19, 2018 5:35 pm

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Chris McDaniel’s feud with Mississippi governor delaying conservative support for his Senate campaign

Al Weaver · March 18, 2018 4:01 am

Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., arrives as Republican senators gather to meet with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., on the GOP effort to overhaul the tax code, on Capitol Hill, Friday, Dec. 1, 2017, in Washington.

Pro-Obamacare group opposes GOP plan to boost Obamacare funds

Kimberly Leonard · March 16, 2018 3:50 pm

The sign for the National Labor Relations Board seen on the building that houses their headquarters in downtown Washington.

Senate committee advances Trump NLRB pick

Sean Higgins · March 14, 2018 9:34 pm

The controversial portion of the Obamacare funding is inclusion of the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits federal dollars from going toward abortions. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

Abortion language threatens to derail Obamacare funding

Kimberly Leonard · March 14, 2018 8:19 pm

President Donald Trump talks with reporters as he reviews border wall prototypes, Tuesday, March 13, 2018, in San Diego.

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White House opposes trading 3-year DACA extension for 3 years of border wall money

Sarah Bedford · March 14, 2018 6:33 pm

In this photo from Feb. 24, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar speaks in Washington, D.C. So far, Azar and the Trump administration want to leverage greater competition in the pharmaceutical market to entice lower prices. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Trump’s drug-price crackdown misses the mark, experts say

Robert King · March 13, 2018 5:01 am