The Senate will take a test vote as early as today on Republicans’ bid to repeal the U.S. health- care overhaul, President Barack Obama ’s biggest domestic achievement.
Jan
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share: digg facebook twitter AUSTIN — Border security funding would get a slight boost but public schools, higher education, criminal justice and health care for poor Texans would be cut under Senate leaders' first crack at a bare-bones budget. Neither the House nor Senate initial measures would raise taxes or dip into the state's rainy-day fund savings account, which will have a projected $9.4 ...
Jan
23
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Senate Republicans want to box majority Democrats into allowing a health care repeal vote even if GOP lawmakers expect to be on the losing side.
Jan
23
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Senate Republicans want to box majority Democrats into allowing a health care repeal vote even if GOP lawmakers expect to be on the losing side. We need to have a vote on it, because we promised the people we would, Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican, said Sunday on Face the ...
Jan
23
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Senate Republicans want to box majority Democrats into allowing a health care repeal vote even if GOP lawmakers expect to be on the losing side.