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Republicans Working to Change Healthcare Bill Before House Vote
Mar 19 2017 // U.S. House Republicans are working on changes to their healthcare overhaul bill to provide more generous tax credits for older Americans and add a work requirement for the Medicaid program for the poor, House Speaker Paul...
Republican Health Care Act Moves Closer to House Vote
Mar 17 2017 // Deeply divided Republicans squeezed their U.S. healthcare overhaul, backed by President Donald Trump, through a key House of Representatives panel on Thursday despite defections by three conservatives who consider it too...
Study Shows GOP Health Care Plan Could Cost Oklahoma Millions
Mar 16 2017 // A Republican plan to overhaul the nation’s health care system shows health care could become unaffordable for many poor Oklahomans and the state could be forced to subsidize health care costs for Native Americans,...
Texas Bill Banning Texting While Driving Statewide Goes to Senate
Mar 14 2017 // A bill that passed the Texas Senate State Affairs Committee on March 13 aims to restrict texting while driving statewide. While several cities already have ordinances that restrict texting while behind the wheel, SB 31 by...
Under Republican Health Plan, 24 Million Could Lose Insurance While Deficit Is Cut $337 Billion: CBO
Mar 13 2017 // Fourteen million Americans would lose medical insurance by next year under a Republican plan to dismantle Obamacare that would also reduce the budget deficit, the nonpartisan U.S. Congressional Budget Office said on...
Here is Summary of CBO’s Analysis of Republican Health Care Proposal
Mar 13 2017 // The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) estimate that enacting the Republicans’ American Health Care Act would reduce federal deficits by $337 billion over the...
Louisiana Republicans’ Response to Health Insurance Plan Mostly Muted
Mar 10 2017 // Louisiana’s majority-Republican congressional delegation hasn’t exactly embraced the GOP proposal to replace President Barack Obama’s health care law, with most members instead offering a cautious,...
House Committees Advance Republican Health Care Plan Despite Critics
Mar 10 2017 // The Republican plan backed by President Donald Trump to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system cleared its first hurdles in Congress on Thursday, but its chances for passage looked uncertain and top Republicans scrambled to...
House Balks at Senate Plan for Mississippi Oil Spill Damage Account
Mar 10 2017 // Mississippi lawmakers may be unable to decide this year how to spend $750 million in oil spill damage payments, with sniping between House and Senate members after a bill died at a Tuesday deadline for action when the...
Trump Backs Republican Health Plan Blasted by Conservatives
Mar 8 2017 // President Donald Trump threw his weight behind a House Republican plan to replace Obamacare, even as conservatives mounted their own savage attack on the bill, with one Republican senator declaring it “dead on...
Insurers, Hospitals Worry Republican Plan Makes Insurance Less Affordable
Mar 8 2017 // The House Republican health insurance plan suggests coverage after Obamacare will be less affordable, insurers and industry experts said on Tuesday, raising questions about whether Americans will enroll and insurance...
Here Is a Section-by-Section Summary of Republicans’ Health Care Act
Mar 7 2017 // The following summary of the American Health Care Act, meant as a repeal and replacement for the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), has been prepared by the Republican staff of the House Committee on Ways and Means. A copy...
House Republicans Unwrap Long-Awaited Obamacare Replacement Bill
Mar 6 2017 // Long-awaited legislation to dismantle Obamacare was unwrapped on Monday by U.S. Republicans, who called for ending health insurance mandates and rolling back extra healthcare funding for the poor in a package that drew...
Republicans in Indiana Warn of Fallout from Affordable Care Act Repeal
Mar 2 2017 // Republican legislative leaders in Indiana are warning that repealing the Affordable Care Act could unravel a program for poor residents that Vice President Mike Pence implemented as governor, a conservative blueprint for...
House Republicans’ Report Hits ‘Too Big to Fail’ Designation Process
Mar 1 2017 // Congressional Republicans are taking aim at the regulatory process through which some financial institutions become subject to heightened regulation because they are deemed too big to fail. In a report released on Tuesday,...
Oklahoma Senate OKs Bill Changing Oversight of Online Insurance Verification
Feb 28 2017 // The full Senate has approved legislation to transfer oversight of Oklahoma’s Compulsory Insurance Online Verification System (OCIVS) for motor vehicle liability policies from the Department of Public Safety (DPS) to...
Utah Senate, House Pass Bill to Let Workers’ Comp Fund Become A Mutual
Feb 28 2017 // Both the Utah Senate and House have passed a bill to repeal the statue creating the state’s Workers’ Compensation Fund. Following a court battle and several pieces of legislation, the fund has nearly separated...
Arizona Senate Votes to Raise Minimum Auto Liability Insurance
Feb 27 2017 // The Arizona Senate approved a bill to raise the minimum amount of liability coverage drivers are required to carry on auto insurance policies, a proposal backers say is needed to protect accident victims from loss. The...
Republicans’ Replacement for Obamacare Taking Shape
Feb 27 2017 // Republican lawmakers expect that their Obamacare replacement will result in fewer Americans covered by health insurance, a fact that’s likely to increase blowback amid growing support for the program. New details of...
Trump Administration Reviewing Obama’s Autonomous Vehicle Guidance
Feb 27 2017 // U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao said on Sunday she is reviewing self-driving vehicle guidance issued by the Obama administration and urged companies to explain the benefits of automated vehicles to a skeptical...
