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Today, Congressman Lloyd Doggett, Senior Member of the House Ways and Means Committee and Ranking Member of the Tax Policy Subcommittee, reacted to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report detailing the consequences of the GOP health care bill:
Race, not partisan advantage, was the key to changes made in the maps of three Texas congressional districts, including two in San Antonio.
That was the conclusion of a federal judicial panel that invalidated the three Republican-drawn districts. In a 2-1 ruling, it said the 2011 changes diluted minority votes in violation of the U.S. Voting Rights Act.
The Ways and Means Committee endorsed language rolling back Obamacare fees on health insurers and certain pharmaceutical manufacturers, moving a step closer to advancing the House GOP’s repeal bill.
Democrats on Wednesday used the House Ways and Means Committee's markup of legislation to repeal and replace ObamaCare to make another unsuccessful push for the panel to request President Trump's tax returns.
House Republicans on Wednesday began debating a plan to repeal Obamacare amid Democratic accusations that the GOP is jamming through a bill to fulfill a campaign pledge that will rip health care away from millions of Americans.
Democrats on Wednesday broadly blasted a proposed Obamacare replacement bill after learning the federal government would lose about $400 million in lost tax revenue over the next decade due to a sweet break for health insurers.
U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett said a GOP plan to repeal Obamacare will be reviewed by the Ways and Means and Energy and Commerce committees in the U.S. House on Wednesday.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, House Ways and Means Committee Democrats urged Chairman Kevin Brady to refrain from holding a full committee markup of any legislation to replace the Affordable Care Act without conducting a single hearing or obtaining a score from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office and any estimates from the Joint Committee on Taxation.
Reaction to President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress split along predictably partisan lines, with Republicans praising what they described as the president’s optimistic agenda, and Democrats saying “talk is cheap.”
The Trump Organization is looking to expand its luxury hotel brand into dozens of the nation’s major cities because that’s where the tourists and business travelers are.
But they’re also where the strongest opposition to Trump is.