Tag: Senate

The Washington state Democrat lamented that Republicans were working along party lines on healthcare. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Patty Murray on individual mandate repeal: It’s ‘like trying to put out a fire with penicillin’

Kimberly Leonard · November 15, 2017 4:29 pm

An altered tax reform bill was released Tuesday by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah. Tax reform legislation carries high political stakes for President Trump and Republican leaders in Congress, who view passage as critical to the GOP's success at the 2018 polls. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

New Senate tax bill phases out most individual tax cuts in 2025

Joseph Lawler · November 15, 2017 3:57 am

Sens. Patty Murray, D-Wash., and Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., brokered a bipartisan deal that would fund Obamacare insurer payments for two years in exchange for more flexibility for states to waive the law's regulations. But Senate Republicans crafting tax reform legislation have put that deal in jeopardy. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Democrats mum on abandoning Alexander-Murray if GOP guts Obamacare individual mandate

Kimberly Leonard · November 15, 2017 1:08 am

House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., has said he opposes a bipartisan deal to stabilize Obamacare in return for repealing the law's individual mandate that everyone buy insurance. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Obamacare stabilization deal draws opposition from some House Republicans

Robert King · November 14, 2017 11:52 pm

Following last week's Washington Post report alleging Roy Moore pursued sexual relationships with teenagers while he was in his 30s, one as young as 14, a new accuser came forward. (AP Photo/Hal Yeager)

Roy Moore tells campaign staff he will finish Senate race despite sexual misconduct allegations

Mandy Mayfield · November 14, 2017 10:28 pm

Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., said Tuesday that getting rid of Obamacare's individual mandate, which forces all Americans to have health insurance or pay a penalty, will disrupt the marketplaces and cause people to pay more. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Patty Murray stops short of abandoning bipartisan Obamacare deal

Robert King · November 14, 2017 9:59 pm

Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch recessed the panel, promising an amended bill later Tuesday, although he did not say when it might come. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Finance committee halts work to fix Senate tax bill’s budget problems

Joseph Lawler · November 14, 2017 9:43 pm

Senate Republican leaders are optimistic that inserting the individual mandate repeal in the GOP tax reform bill "will be helpful." Republicans made the announcement following a closed-door meeting with rank-and-file members. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Senate GOP tax bill will attack Obamacare’s individual mandate

Susan Ferrechio, Robert King · November 14, 2017 7:41 pm

Beltway Confidential

Speaking straight to cameras, fifth Roy Moore accuser cuts media out of the equation

Emily Jashinsky · November 14, 2017 11:16 am

Beltway Confidential

Alabama media have whispered about Roy Moore’s alleged behavior for years, as this 2002 article shows

Becket Adams · November 14, 2017 8:21 am

Although a number of problems could crop up, as of the start of the week Republicans were on track to throw a bill together and put it on President Trump's desk by the end of the year. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House, Senate GOP want to pass tax bills, worry about differences later

Joseph Lawler · November 14, 2017 1:51 am

Sen. Luther Strange, R-Ala., has been floated as a write-in candidate amid sexual misconduct allegations against the current Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)

Luther Strange says write-in candidacy is ‘highly unlikely’

Diana Stancy Correll · November 14, 2017 12:51 am