Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: GOP Tax Dilemma — Somebody’s Got to Pay More
It is a major reason why the final stripped-down Senate health care bill eliminated all efforts to repeal the Obamacare taxes on high-income Americans.
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Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: Forget the Moderates, Only the Die-Hards Can Get Health Care Back on Track
James Inhofe, R-Okla., managed to pass some of the only major legislation of the last several years, including a highway bill and a chemical safety bill, even though their personal politics could not have
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: Despite Pressure, John McCain Chose Honor
</p> His dramatic wee-hours vote to stop a diluted version of the Obamacare “repeal and replace” bill killed their hopes of delivering on a seven-year-old promise to their constituents — one made so long
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: Summertime and the Living Is Easy in Trump’s Washington
</p> For the sake of historians chronicling the torpor of the Trump years, here are some of the things that happened on this forgettable Thursday: </p> The attorney general went on Fox News to describe
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: ‘Values’ Are Relative When Rooting for Your Political Team
if their family’s medical or Medicaid coverage is not included in whatever bill follows.
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: Lessons in Loyalty From John McCain and That Other Guy
As the day began on Tuesday, McConnell had no bill, no CBO score, and almost no leverage over senators. McConnell had to lean on his holdouts hard.
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: Democrats Cut the Cards in Search of a Better Deal
</p> Yes, at first glance, the issue seems abstruse.
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: The Freewheeling John McCain — An Appreciation
No topic was off-limits from his rage against Mitch McConnell (the leading foe of the McCain-Feingold campaign reform bill) to his campaign strategy.
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: For Whom and What Do Faith Leaders Pray?
</p> White — most of them, anyway — evangelicals, recently photographed laying hands on President Donald Trump perhaps were praying that the proposed Senate health care bill, the one estimates predicted
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: Meet the New President — All 50 of Them
Dean Heller in Nevada, who had announced he was a “no” on the initial Senate health care bill.</p> But Sandoval and Kasich, among others, made sure their senators, including Sen.
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: History Lessons — Ted Kennedy, Watergate and the Bravest Senate Vote
</p> But with no coherent White House defense of the bill, each day of delay allows the opposition to mount and GOP second thoughts (“Why again are we doing something this unpopular?”) to set in.
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: The New Senate Health Care Bill — A Little Bit Louder and a Little Bit Worse
Placating Donald Trump seems a bizarre rationale since the president has already betrayed House Republicans by calling their version of the bill “mean.” </p> Helping the rich?
Opinion · 115th Congress
Analysis: Health Care Insiders Are Outside Looking In
</p> It’s already clear that the political forces driving the bill, or the ones that might ultimately take it down, are bigger than they are.
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: Don’t Skip the Recess, Skip the Games
, and a Food and Drug Administration user authorization bill.
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: Fourth of July — A Time to Rate Baseball Teams and Presidents
</p> Begin with Trump’s bizarre decision to hold a mock White House signing ceremony after the House passed its Grinch-like health care bill.
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: Trump’s White Flag Signals Trust Problem
</p> Trump’s bully pulpit Friday’s tweet had the feel of the Trump who threatened Democrats with sinking Obamacare after the House first balked at a repeal-and-replace bill.
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: The Politics of Drug Policy
</p> Many fear the Senate bill is not enough to meet a challenge that is intertwined with unemployment, the economy and more.
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: Let the Senate Be the Senate Again
I have a question for the senators trying to decide whether to vote for the Obamacare repeal bill when it comes up in the Senate:</p> Did you really fly 1,000 miles in coach for this?
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: Wanted — Three Senate Republicans to End the Mean Season for Health Care
In similar fashion, voters rejected the House bill by nearly a two-to-one margin in a recent CBS News poll.</p> Every tweak to the current Senate bill invites new problems.
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: What’s at Stake for McConnell, Conservatives and the GOP
</p> Four Republican senators—Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee and Ron Johnson — have said they are “not ready” to vote for the bill for a variety of reasons.