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GOP-Led Senate Takes First Step Toward Ending Obamacare, 51-48
Jan 12 2017 // The U.S. Senate took the first step toward repealing Obamacare in a razor-thin vote early Thursday, even as House leaders were struggling to line up support for a vote later this week. The 51-48 vote fell almost entirely...
House Republicans Pass Sweeping Regulatory Reform Bill
Jan 11 2017 // Republicans on Wednesday passed a bill in the House of Representatives that touched on nearly every step U.S. agencies take in creating and applying new rules, continuing their blitz to radically reform...
Some in Wisconsin GOP Softening on Medical Marijuana
Jan 9 2017 // As a marijuana extract used to treat seizures becomes more widely embraced, even by former Republican opponents, the conversation in Wisconsin is shifting to whether the time is right to approve medical marijuana. Assembly...
Senate to Begin Repealing Obamacare This Week: McConnell
Jan 8 2017 // The U.S. Senate will take its first steps toward repealing President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare reform act by the end of the week, Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Sunday. Speaking...
Republicans Ready to Repeal Obamacare, Work Out Replacement Later
Dec 30 2016 // The first major act of the unified Republican government in 2017 will be a vote in Congress to begin tearing down Obamacare. But the euphoria of finally acting on a long-sought goal will quickly give way to the reality...
Republicans Prepare Assault on Obama’s Final Regulations
Dec 20 2016 // Republicans in Congress plan to deploy a powerful tool soon after Donald Trump is inaugurated to scuttle a host of rules put in place in the last months of Barack Obama’s presidency, yet they must act quickly for the...
Climate Scientists Coming to Terms with Skeptical Trump Administration
Dec 20 2016 // Climate scientists worried that President-elect Donald Trump will slash their budgets and sideline their research are entering survival mode, trimming the words “climate change” from study proposals,...
Democrats Question Performance of Iowa’s Privatized Medicaid System
Dec 15 2016 // A handful of Democrats in a health oversight committee say they continue to have questions about the performance of Iowa’s Medicaid program, more than eight months after it switched to a privatized system run by...
Insurers Lobby for Clarity as Republicans Move to Repeal Obamacare
Dec 8 2016 // The largest lobbying group for health insurers has asked U.S. lawmakers weighing the fate of Obamacare to push back the due date for 2018 individual insurance submissions to regulators in hopes of obtaining greater clarity...
House Labor Panel Chair Foxx Ready to Take on Unions, Democrats
Dec 6 2016 // The incoming chair of the congressional panel that oversees labor issues on Monday questioned the need for unions and said she wants to repeal various Obama administration labor policies. Organized labor has “sort of...
Senate Bill Would Let Wells Fargo Customers Sue in Court, Bypass Arbitration
Dec 2 2016 // Legislation introduced by two Democratic lawmakers on Thursday would allow Wells Fargo & Co. customers to go to court, instead of private arbitration, to resolve claims about accounts opened without authorization,...
Dozens of Obama Administration Financial Rules that Republicans May Kill
Nov 22 2016 // In recent days Republican Congressional leaders have taken several opportunities to warn Obama Administration regulators not to finish any more rulemakings, but some agency heads, such as U.S. Securities and Exchange...
Regulators Look to State Laws as Republicans Move to Change Dodd-Frank
Nov 17 2016 // State securities regulators said they may have to rely more heavily on local laws to police banks and finance companies if President-elect Donald Trump and a Republican-controlled Congress roll back federal reforms...
House Republicans Question Volkswagen Penalties for Diesel Pollution
Nov 2 2016 // Two senior U.S. House Republicans on Tuesday asked environmental regulators to answer questions about Volkswagen AG’s diesel emissions settlements, including disclosing how the government calculated the penalties...
Attack on North Carolina GOP Office Under Investigation
Oct 19 2016 // Investigators combed through shards of glass, looked for residue of flammable accelerant and tried to narrow down the overnight hours when someone torched a local Republican Party office by throwing a flammable device...
Obama Administration Releases Rules on Paid Sick Leave, Pay Data Reporting
Sep 29 2016 // The Obama administration on Thursday finalized rules requiring federal contractors to provide paid sick leave to employees and expanding the type of data employers must provide on their pay practices. U.S. Labor Secretary...
Senate, House Override President’s Veto of Saudi Arabia 9/11 Lawsuit Bill
Sep 28 2016 // Congress turned aside a last-ditch lobbying effort by the White House and Saudi Arabia Wednesday and overrode President Barack Obama’s veto of a bill that would allow the kingdom to be sued for involvement in the...
Senate Bill Would Help Claimants of Artwork Stolen by Nazis
Sep 19 2016 // Heirs trying to recover artwork lost to Nazi looting during World War II could get some help under a bill approved by a Senate panel on Thursday. The bipartisan legislation backed by the Senate Judiciary Committee on a...
Senate Candidate Eldridge, Arkansas Democrats Back Medical Marijuana
Sep 1 2016 // Democratic U.S. Senate hopeful Conner Eldridge has endorsed legalizing medical marijuana, a move that comes days after Arkansas Democrats voted to support making the drug available to some patients. But both Eldridge and...
2 State AGs Refuse House Republicans’ Subpoenas Over Climate Change
Jul 28 2016 // The New York and Massachusetts attorneys general are refusing to comply with congressional subpoenas seeking records about their investigations into whether Exxon Mobil misled investors about man-made climate change. In an...
