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“There have been some victories at the margins to be pleased about, but they’ve been on pretty inside-baseball stuff,” said Gabe Roth, the executive director of Fix the Court, which presses for more
The storm left the entire island without power, and will require a massive response, including aid dollars, from Washington.
“The emergency issue before us today is not money in the next 24 to 48 hours,” Rubio said.
the budget resolution at the end of the month, they have been trying to ram through the Senate a ramshackle bill (named after Lindsey Graham and Bill Cassidy) that would upend the health care system without
“And yet that’s what each version of this bill did, and I just don’t think you do that without extensive review and analysis.”
“All I know is what you guys have been writing, so now I need to go talk to the source,” Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn said as he emerged from an elevator in the Capitol en route to Majority
“For me, I hope I only need this support for a limited time but lots of families need it even more than I do. If we really value our future, which is our kids, we need to take care of their health.”
“I cannot in good conscience vote for the Graham-Cassidy proposal. I believe we could do better working together, Republicans and Democrats, and have not yet really tried.
“I’m going to reserve judgment until I see what the Senate actually produces,” the speaker said July 27, just hours before the bill was defeated.
“The most important thing is, Tom Farr is a good man,” Burr said when introducing Farr on Wednesday. “And I think what we look for are good people to serve in a capacity like a district judge.
“Like Donald Trump, I speak my mind. I know what I believe. I know why I believe it,” he told the USA Today Network — Tennessee. Carr has registered a federal super PAC, Stand Firm America.
Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia said. “What our state would find in a Graham-Cassidy situation would be the flexibility to put an emphasis on that and the dollars behind it as well.”
“It is the Leader’s intention to consider Graham-Cassidy on the floor next week,” Don Stewart, a spokesman for Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, said Wednesday in an email.
You can complain to me, but I sure as hell don’t run it.
Rand Paul has said he opposes it, and Graham has said he thinks getting his support is a lost cause.
“It goes without saying that in the year 2017, we should be talking about health care as a right for all people, not a privilege,” he said.Sen.
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Goodling was not without his quirks.
“That is an organizational initiative that I think people on Capitol Hill and in the department see as value added,” Schwartz said.
“I think it would hurt the effort that he’s undertaken,” Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., said. “I think it’ll be damaged.”