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We get it—you’re busy. There’s a lot happening on the Hill. So, if you’re wondering, “What happened with Obamacare this week?”—allow us to bring you up to speed. Legislative Hearings This week, a few House committees held hearings to discuss fixing our health care system by way of repealing and replacing Obamacare. First up? Energy and Commerce. Yesterday, the E&C health subcommittee looked at four specific bills designed to rebuild the collapsing health care market (more on that here)—bills that protect taxpayer dollars and give power back to states. As Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) said, “We have to save this...

One of the main areas of contention between Donald Trump and Paul Ryan is the question of Muslim immigration. In early December, when Trump first made his proposal (now a "suggestion") to stop all such immigration until we "understood what was going on," one of the first to react in high dudgeon was Ryan, who declared: "This is not conservatism." (snip) But let's look more closely at what the speaker said during that response: When we voted to pause the refugee program a few weeks ago, I made very clear at the time: there would not be a religious test....