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Senate starts bipartisan effort to overhaul Obamacare

Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chairman Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington...  Read more

Republicans worry about eroding Hispanic support after Trump's DACA rollback

The Republican Party has seen its support from Hispanic and other nonwhite voters diminish precipitously since the 2004 presidential election...  Read more

Trump and wary Republicans head for the fall

President Trump has showed no hesitation piling on new items to the crowded legislative to-do list...  Read more

Is socialized healthcare a litmus test for Democrats in 2018?

Sen. Bernie Sanders talks with seniors at the Franklin County Senior Center in St. Albans on Aug. 14. Sanders says he will introduce a medicare for all bill shortly after Congress reconvenes in September...  Read more

Why Does Rex Tillerson Want Affirmative Action for Ambassadors?

Tillerson says the State Department needs to be more diverse and that there needs to be a Rooney Rule for ambassadorships...  Read more

What You Missed While You Were on Vacation

It was an interesting August around the world...  Read more

Trump and Sessions to End DACA

Plus, will the United States halt trade with any country that does business with North Korea?...  Read more

For every Amazon package it delivers, the Postal Service loses $1.46

In many places, Amazon locates a depot near a post office, presorts the packages, and delivers them to the post office...  Read more

Governors Offer Plan to Keep Obamacare and Fund It More

Kasich, Sandoval join Democratic counterparts in petitioning Congress...  Read more

Hurricane Harvey and the climate change alarm bells

No serious person believes that climate policy could bring us into a brave new world of fewer hurricanes. And if the number of large hurricanes we get is determined by policy...  Read more

Child tax credits back in Republican tax reform talks

The idea wasn't part of the joint principles on tax reform that the Trump administration put out and has never had support from House or Senate GOP leadership...  Read more

Trump forces midterm Republicans into an awkward situation

President Trump's unusual divisiveness inside his own party could pose extra political challenges to Republicans on the 2018 ballot...  Read more

Reform the ethanol mandate

Because the RFS requires E15 and higher ethanol-blend fuels to comprise a larger share of the fuel supply, the chances of consumer misfueling are rising...  Read more

Trump Touts Tax Reform, Pressures Democrats in Speech

The president tries to "kick off" a signature goal while a pivotal budget fight looms...  Read more

Trump should want Barbara Jordan's immigration debate, not Joe Arpaio's

There is a case to be made that at present, admitting immigrants in lower numbers but with higher skills would benefit many black and Latino American workers...  Read more

Missile defense is now the only hope for world peace

For years, U.S. military and intelligence leaders assessed that North Korea had ICBM capability, but their weapons were largely unproven...  Read more

Pass a Harvey emergency bill, not a pork bill

It's cynical to use the cover of emergency response to fund other priorities. Here, an elderly man is carried to dry ground as he evacuates a neighborhood in west Houston inundated by floodwaters on Tuesday...  Read more

Defund terrorism: Pass the Taylor Force Act

The Senate Foreign Affairs Committee overwhelmingly approved the Taylor Force Act, which would cut off U.S. assistance to the Palestinian Authority as punishment for its support of terrorism...  Read more