A GOP Senator Just Compared Trans Health Care to ‘Genital Mutilation’ (Rand Paul)
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Vice ^
| February 25th, 2021 | by Carter Sherman
She’s set to be the highest-profile trans government official in U.S. history. So
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul used Thursday’s Senate confirmation hearing for Dr. Rachel Levine to falsely compare gender-affirming health care to genital mutilation.“Most genital mutilation is not typically performed by force but, as WHO notes, that by social convention, social norm, the social pressure to conform, to do what others do and have been doing as well as the need to be accepted socially and the fear of being rejected by the community,” Paul told Levine, a Pennsylvania pediatrician and health official who’s nominated to become President Joe...
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GOP senator issues stark warning to Republicans on health care
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The Hill ^
| 04/12/2019 | Jonathan Easley
GOP Sen. Mike Braun (Ind.) has a stark warning for Republicans: Come up with a viable alternative to ObamaCare or face another rout in the 2020 election. Speaking
with The Hill at his office in the Senate Russell Building, Braun described the GOP’s push to repeal ObamaCare without a plan of their own as one of the primary reasons for the Democratic wave election in 2018. “What was it, about 55 House seats?,” Braun said. Republicans lost 40 seats in the 2018 midterm election and Democrats earned a majority in the House for the first time since 2011. The freshman...
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Senator Susan Collins on GOP Senate Healthcare Bill
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Twitter ^
| 7/13/17 | Susan RINO Collins
Still deep cuts to Medicaid in Senate bill. Will
vote no on MTP. Ready to work w/ GOP & Dem colleagues to fix flaws in ACA.
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Key GOP senator: Revised Senate healthcare bill expected Monday
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thehill.com ^
| 7/10/17 | Alexander Bolton
Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.), who has played a central role in negotiating the Senate healthcare reform bill, says a new version of the legislation is expected to be unveiled Monday. The revised bill gives Senate GOP leaders a second chance to round up 50 votes to repeal and replace major parts of
ObamaCare, after their first attempt stalled before the July Fourth recess because of divisions within the Republican conference. “We’ve got a new version that comes out today. We’ll get new scores from CBO. And there’s a shot of getting to 50 [votes]. Mike Pence breaks the tie,” Toomey,...
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Four GOP senators oppose Senate health-care bill in its current form (It won't pass)
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Washington Post ^
| 06/22/2017 | By Sean Sullivan, Kelsey Snell and Juliet Eilperin
The health-care proposal unveiled by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday came under immediate attack from conservative and centrist Republican senators as well as industry officials, casting the bill’s viability into doubt even as GOP leaders plan to bring it to a final vote next week. The
142-page bill, which McConnell (R-Ky.) released after weeks of drafting it in secrecy, drew swift criticism from hard-right senators who argued it does not go far enough in undoing Barack Obama’s signature health-care law — the Affordable Care Act. It also prompted an outcry from centrist senators and medical organizations worried that...
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Report: At Least Three GOP Senators To Oppose Health Care Bill (chuck todd 'solid source')
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Washington Free Beacon ^
| June 22, 2017 12:27 pm | Alex Griswold
A group of at least three Republican senators are planning to openly oppose the newly-released Republican health care bill, NBC's Chuck Todd reported Thursday. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) released the text of the bill Thursday after more than a month of speculation. "For
the past seven years, Obamacare has continued to hurt the people we represent," McConnell said on the Senate floor. "For the past seven years, Republicans have offered ideas for a better way forward. And soon, we will finally have the chance to turn the page on this failing law." But the host of "Meet...
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Trump likely to get GOP senators' revised health care draft Tuesday
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Fox Business ^
| 12 June 2017 | Brian Schwartz , Charlie Gasparino
Members of the Senate’s GOP working group to develop a new health care law are planning to huddle with President Trump on Tuesday as they race to meet a July 4 deadline made by majority leader Mitch McConnell to vote on a bill, the FOX Business Network has learned. {snip} Senate sources
tell FOX Business that aides to McConnell and other key members of the group plan on completing their draft legislation by Monday night. The president is scheduled to give a major health care speech Tuesday afternoon in Milwaukee, and sources say he will likely be briefed by McConnell...
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Democrat Senator Blames GOP for His Own Party's Antics After Health Care Bill Passes
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NewsBusters ^
| May 5, 2017 | P.J. Gladnick
Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey, goodbye! Remember
how the gloating Republicans rubbed in their May 4 health care bill passage in the House of Representatives by singing? Didn't you just find that morally repugnant and un-American? Oops! Wrong party. It was actually the Democrats in Congress who were singing. However, that didn't stop a hilariously wrong California state senator from condemning the singing by the "GOP members of Congress." And this wasn't just some little known state senator. The laughably wrong politician is the California Senate Pro Tempore Kevin de León whom you can see below denouncing...
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