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Healthcare bill really could become 'Trumpcare' with centrists in play

The votes in play right now seem to belong to centrists and soft conservatives from Medicaid expansion states...  Read more

Senate leadership scrambles to lock down healthcare votes

It is not clear if McConnell can reach a deal by the end of the week...  Read more

Big energy users: Trump's natural gas exports will take away jobs

Industrial users of energy are warning that exporting natural gas will hurt U.S. manufacturing and reduce jobs in the long run...  Read more

McConnell Yanks Senate Health Bill

The legislation faces opposition from both conservatives for not doing enough and from moderates for cutting too much...  Read more

Another bleak Supreme Court decision for property rights

Property owners have long suffered under the Supreme Court's erratic rulings...  Read more

Conservatives target insurance requirements in Senate health bill

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., suggested that people with pre-existing conditions could enroll in group plans or association plans...  Read more

Trump to rally Congress on immigration after healthcare setback

President Trump wants to penalize so-called sanctuary cities, or jurisdictions that do not cooperate with federal immigration officials...  Read more

Paul Ryan: Republicans will be vindicated in 2018 on healthcare

"The Democrats are in disarray," Ryan told the Washington Examiner...  Read more

Supreme Court Unanimously Allows for Partial Implementation of Travel Ban

The court will hear oral arguments regarding the ban next term...  Read more

Tax reform can level the playing field in the energy market

When it comes to energy, a sector that is helping drive economic growth nationwide, tax policy can be profoundly influential in investment decisions...  Read more

White House leaving healthcare heavy lifting to Senate Republicans

President Trump has not been as directly involved in courting votes for the Senate healthcare bill as he was for the House's legislation, instead relying heavily on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell...  Read more

Supreme Court strikes a blow against 19th century religious intolerance

Seven of the nine justices on the Supreme Court of the United States ruled against a provision in many state constitutions that was originally aimed at curtailing the influence of Catholicism...  Read more

Lawmakers launch measures to fight terrorism online

Many technology companies have already instituted their own policies to deal with terrorist chatter, and industry groups warn that government intervention is not the appropriate step forward...  Read more

Mike Lee Thinks the Healthcare Bill Is a Joke

But he'll vote for It under one condition...  Read more

Should the US pull its nuclear weapons out of Turkey?

"Welcome to Incirlik AB, Turkey," reads the big gold letters over one of the entrances to a key staging base for the fight against the Islamic State, strategically located in southern Turkey, just 70 miles from the Syrian border...  Read more

As Washington debates infrastructure, states aren't waiting for help

Congress should focus on reinvestment rather than building new infrastructure because many roads, bridges and other systems across the country are reaching the end of their useful life...  Read more

Senate Republicans can't pass an inoffensive healthcare bill -- they need an effective one

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has overseen the crafting of a bill that does more to rescue Obamacare than reform and repeal it, and many conservatives now realize they cannot expect the "root and branch" removal of the law they were promised...  Read more

James Comey visits the New York Times building for charity event

The Daily Mail originally reported that James Comey had been spotted entering the New York Times office building but the Times' White House correspondent, Maggie Haberman, clarified on Twitter that Comey was there for a charity event...  Read more