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McCain’s surprise thumbs down doomed the GOP bill. Did it open the door for Senate bipartisanship?

August 22, 2019 at 12:17 a.m.

Sen. John McCain is usually happy to spar with reporters, but he ducked into an elevator ahead of the Senate healthcare vote late Thursday without saying a word about how...

Sen. John McCain's office at the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill.

McCain’s absence complicates Obamacare repeal and wider agenda for GOP Senate

August 22, 2019 at 12:12 a.m.

To Senate Republicans, John McCain is a real-life hero, a leader and a trusted voice who speaks his mind in the often muddled milieu of Washington politics. He is also...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell talks about working through part of the recess with senators John Barrasso, (R-Wyo.), left, and John Thune, (R-S.D.), at his side.

Divided Senate Republicans will take another crack at Obamacare repeal today

August 22, 2019 at 12:07 a.m.

Senate Republicans are set to unveil revised legislation Thursday to roll back the Affordable Care Act, even as political support has deteriorated so dramatically that it is now unclear whether...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., joined by Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., listens during a news conference on July 11, 2017, following a closed-door Republican strategy session.

Republicans in Congress still don’t want to talk about Trump and Russia

August 18, 2019 at 4:20 p.m.

Three times on Tuesday Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was asked about Donald Trump Jr.'s attempt during the campaign to collect damaging information about Democrat Hillary Clinton from Russia. And...

Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) talks on his phone outside the Senate office buildings on Capitol Hill.

GOP’s Plan B for Obamacare repeal began with quiet push from Koch network

August 21, 2019 at 11:58 p.m.

President Trump's surprise suggestion Friday that deadlocked Senate Republicans shift their focus to simply repealing Obamacare — and worry about replacing it later — has its roots in a Koch...

Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., center, with Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., and Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., by his side addresses reporters about the health care legislation on June 27, 2017.

Hopes fade for Friday revise of Senate Republican health care bill

August 21, 2019 at 11:57 p.m.

Senate Republicans appeared unlikely to hit a self-imposed Friday deadline for revising their health care bill, as negotiators considered scaling back promised tax cuts for the wealthy in order to...

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, speaks amid a crush of reporters after Republicans released their long-awaited bill to scuttle much of President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, June 22, 2017. She is one of four GOP senators to say they are opposed to it as written which could put the measure in immediate jeopardy.

Key GOP senators say they may block Senate health care bill

August 21, 2019 at 11:55 p.m.

The Senate Republican health care bill ran into serious trouble late Monday when key GOP senators indicated they may block the Obamacare overhaul from proceeding to a vote this week.Political...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill.

Republican secrecy faces mounting criticism as senators work behind closed doors to repeal Obamacare

August 21, 2019 at 11:47 p.m.

Senate Republicans are facing increasing criticism for ducking public scrutiny as they craft legislation to roll back the Affordable Care Act with little input from outside experts, patients, physicians and...

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C. listens on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 11, 2017, during opening remarks at the committee's hearing on major threats facing the U.S.

Not the tweets, the Russian issue or Comey’s firing: So what will it take for Republicans to break with Trump?

August 21, 2019 at 11:22 p.m.

They fume privately at President Trump's coziness with the Russians. They wince almost every time he tweets. They talk among themselves about what might have been with a different Republican...

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan with other Republican leaders.

White House will continue Obamacare payments, defusing a potential obstacle in talks to avert shutdown

August 21, 2019 at 11:08 p.m.

One potential obstacle in the negotiations to prevent a government shutdown was averted Wednesday when the White House announced it would continue — at least for now — to provide...

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