GOP Gets a Second Shot at Governance Test
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On health care, that was left up to Speaker Paul D. Ryan and other top House Republicans. “Obviously, we’re driving the train on this,” Spicer said.
Peter King says President Donald Trump and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer should broker a political peace.
When President Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan promised that they would finally deliver on the GOP's promise to repeal and replace Obamacare, McConnell sat back.
At the end, House Speaker Paul D. Ryan rushed to the White House to tell Trump he did not have enough votes to pass the bill. Trump conceded, and the bill was pulled.
Democrats are likely to raise the issue in Senate races, like Missouri, Ohio, Indiana, North Dakota, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, where House Republicans could challenge Democratic senators next year
.: In one of House Speaker Paul Ryan's lowest moments, some members of his party begin to offer notes of support.
Should he blame the conservative purists in the House Freedom Caucus or skittish Republicans from swing districts unwilling to sacrifice their careers for an ungainly bill unlikely to survive Senate scrutiny
If the bill fails, Speaker Paul D. Ryan will likely be dealt the heaviest blow, since the plan on which the bill is based was crafted from his "A Better Way" agenda.
The Freedom Caucus has pushed for repeal of the essential health benefits, but leadership has said that wouldn't be allowed under the reconciliation rules the Senate would use to get a bill passed there
The Speaker calls the bill 'an act of mercy.' TrumpCare is a moral monstrosity. It's time to pull the plug."
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But Speaker Paul D. Ryan, R-Wis., has yet to schedule a vote. "It's not a question of trouble," Spicer said when asked if the legislation is indeed in trouble.
[Vulnerable Senate Democrats Stand Firm in Opposing GOP Health Care Plan] "We are continuing to work with the administration on our presidential permit application," Terry Cunha, a TransCanada spokesman
Trump and Speaker Paul D.
the Republican conference Tuesday that the failure of the health care bill could derail the entire GOP agenda and lead to the 2018 loss of seats in Congress, if not their majorities in the House and Senate
Nunes briefed Speaker Paul D. Ryan, R-Wis., about the information before meeting with Trump on Wednesday, though he indicated he had not yet briefed fellow California Rep.
Rand Paul, after leaving a meeting with several members of the House Freedom Caucus, said defeating the bill would be a rebuke to Speaker Paul D.
Compare that to 2009, when then-President Barack Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi whipped House Democrats until the last possible hour on the cap-and-trade climate bill.
That ambitious time frame, however, is at odds with the challenges the legislation faces in both the House and the Senate.