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</p> July 18: Mitch McConnell’s Plan B on Health Care Appears Dead</p> “For months, I have expressed reservations about the direction of the bill to repeal and replace Obamacare.
</p> Over in the House, lawmakers are preparing to take up a so-called security minibus, which includes the Defense appropriations bill.
</p> The chamber is set to hold the first of a series of votes on the House-passed bill to repeal and replace the health care law at noon on Wednesday.
Senate appropriators’ forthcoming Pentagon spending bill for fiscal 2018, which will contain tens of billions of dollars less than the House’s measure, should be taken seriously, but not literally.
Several parts of the Senate health care bill would violate the chamber’s budget reconciliation rules, the Senate parliamentarian said in a guidance late Friday.
</p> The $31.5 billion fiscal 2018 Interior-Environment spending bill approved by the House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday includes $145 million for the National Endowment for the Arts.
</p> McCain’s Absence Leaves Health Care Bill Stalled</p> [jwp-video n=”1″]</p> The more than two-hour meeting late Wednesday night comes a day after McConnell proclaimed there was not enough Republican
the long-term impacts of the bill.
</p> Lawmakers voted, 254-175, to pass a bill by Rep.
</p> Sen. Marco Rubio’s office was one of the first targets. Protesters crowded inside the Florida Republican’s office and chanted, “Kill this bill, don’t kill us!”
”</p> Trump later added: “By the way, Obamacare isn’t failing, it’s failed. It’s gone.”</p> It’s unclear where Republicans stand on the subsidies now.
</p> In a letter of support to House and Senate leadership, the American Petroleum Institute, along with 146 other industry groups, endorsed the bill as “an important step towards national ambient air
</p> “What this bill does, it guts the Clean Air Act,” Rep. Kathy Castor, D-Fla., said during a June 28 House Energy and Commerce Committee markup of the bill.
</p> McConnell delayed a vote on the revised health care bill after Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., announced Friday he had undergone surgery for a blood clot behind his eye.
As investors give up on a Mississippi carbon-capture coal plant and the Trump administration continues to push for “beautiful clean coal,” a bipartisan group of senators on Wednesday reintroduced a bill
</p> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Still deep cuts to Medicaid in Senate bill. Will vote no on MTP. Ready to work w/ GOP & Dem colleagues to fix flaws in ACA.</p> — Sen.
</p> Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has urged his colleagues to vote to begin debate on the bill, citing the opportunity for virtually endless amendments during the so-called vote-a-rama that
Senate leaders hope to bring the health care bill to the floor next week.