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"repeal" Definitions
  1. the act of repealing a law (= making it no longer a law)

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He previously voted for the Senate's last repeal and replace proposal, as well as partial repeal and "skinny" repeal.  Sen.
They voted down three different bills — a robust repeal-and-replace plan, repeal only, and "skinny" repeal — over three days.
He did vote for the "skinny repeal" bill, which was a scaled-down repeal bill meant to keep the repeal process moving forward.
We can repeal it, but the best is repeal and replace.
"We can repeal, but we should repeal and replace," he said.
Within 28503 hours, McConnell promised that Senate Republicans would vote to repeal and replace ObamaCare; repeal and later replace ObamaCare; and simply repeal ObamaCare.
Over a few days, the Senate took failed votes on a repeal-and-replace plan, a clean repeal bill, and a "skinny" repeal bill.
Hear no worries about Obamacare repeal, speak no worries about Obamacare repeal.
They voted to repeal and they wouldn&apost vote to repeal it.
The plan would repeal Obamacare, but delay the repeal for two years.
The House also voted to repeal it, but Obama vetoed the repeal.
Now, if Republicans vote to repeal Obamacare, they might actually repeal Obamacare.
McCain, who had expressed skepticism about the Senate repeal-and-replace bill and voted against repeal only, seemed thoroughly unsatisfied with "skinny" repeal as well.
McCain, who had expressed apprehension about the Senate repeal-and-replace bill and voted against repeal only, seemed thoroughly unsatisfied with "skinny" repeal as well.
Republicans' latest attempt to repeal Obamacare just failed Republicans' latest attempt to repeal Obamacare just failed As talks of a "skinny repeal" echo through the Capitol, conservatives' hopes of a more heavyset repeal of Obamacare collapsed on Wednesday.
All this happy talk that went on in November and December and January about repeal, repeal, repeal -- yeah we'll do replace, replace -- I started laughing because if you pass repeal without replace, first, anything that happens is your fault.
While President Trump won't be able to do the full repeal of Obamacare that he's been talking up, he can gut it: Repeal the individual mandate, repeal Medicaid expansions, and repeal subsidies for buying health insurance through the exchanges.
What they're using now with the phrase repeal Obamacare, quote-unquote, is not a repeal like you and I understand the meaning of the word repeal.
The legislation, referred to as a "skinny repeal" bill, would repeal the Affordable Care Act's individual and employer mandates and temporarily repeal the medical device tax.
And all this happy talk that went on in November and December and January about repeal, repeal, repeal — yeah, we'll do replace, replace — I started laughing.
A new administration comes to Washington promising to repeal and replace: "repeal," i.e.
But the restaurant industry managed to immediately block the repeal of the repeal.
"Skinny" repeal — the Senate's last hope, for now, to repeal Obamacare — was dead.
"I promised people repeal, this has nothing to do with repeal," Paul said.
" He added: "All this happy talk that went on in November and December and January about repeal, repeal, repeal -- yeah we'll do replace, replace -- I started laughing because if you pass repeal without replace, first, anything that happens is your fault.
Now, Republicans are discussing a "repeal and delay" plan, in which they would repeal the law, but that repeal wouldn't take effect for two or three years.
Trump flip-flops and calls for repeal of Obamacare without replacement Trump flip-flops and calls for repeal of Obamacare without replacement Repeal and then replace … eventually.
"If we're going to repeal it, we need to repeal the taxes," Meadows said.
"'Repeal and delay' is not better than repeal," The Protect Our Care Coalition said.
Paul supports skinny repeal and wants the repeal-and-replace bill to stay dead.
They promised to repeal Obamacare, and this is the only Obamacare repeal bill left.
Congress would do well to understand that full repeal means exactly that: full repeal.
But a "clean repeal," or even piecemeal "repeal and replace," would be politically difficult.
They could begin considering a straight repeal of ObamaCare or repeal-and-replace legislation.
There's a big difference between ameliorating the damage of repeal and stopping repeal altogether.
On Wednesday, they voted down the Obamacare Repeal Reconciliation Act — a straight repeal bill.
It is likely that the Senate, which has just rejected repeal-and-replace and repeal-without-replace bills, will vote on a "skinny repeal" of the Affordable Care Act.
We can repeal it but the best is repeal and replace and let's get going.
Remember repeal and replace, repeal and replace, they kept saying it over and over again.
While the House passed a repeal bill, Senate Republicans failed to pass multiple repeal plans.
" Trump added that McCain's "last campaign was all about repeal and replace, repeal and replace.
"I just keep hearing repeal-replace, repeal-replace," Mr. Trump said in the signing ceremony.
On Wednesday, it came down against the Obamacare Repeal Reconciliation Act, a straight repeal bill.
Would you rather fight a BCRA-sized Skinny Repeal or 100 Skinny Repeal-sized BCRAs?
Will this mobilize progressives the way the plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act repeal has?
"Repeal and Replace" was largely about repeal because Republicans lacked a coherent plan to replace ObamaCare.
With no agreed-upon repeal plan, the positive or negative effects of a repeal are unclear.
Repeal and replace through reconciliation is just the first step in a full repeal of ObamaCare.
That's true of Republicans too: 48 percent want repeal-and-replace, 31 percent want repeal first.
Realizing that they didn't have the votes for repeal and replace or repeal only, they cooked up so-called "skinny" repeal — eliminating just Obamacare's individual mandate and a few other provisions.
So-called "skinny repeal" could repeal only the individual mandate and little else (though the details are very fluid and bigger changes would still be added, making it a much huskier repeal).
" Over the course of a single week, then, his health care position has evolved from "Repeal and Replace" to "Repeal Now, Replace Later" to "Let Obamacare Fail" back to "Repeal and Replace.
Republican leaders, realizing that they didn't have the votes for repeal and replace or repeal only, cooked up so-called "skinny" repeal — eliminating just Obamacare's individual mandate and a few other provisions.
A bit of prognostication: Since Paul Ryan's "repeal and replace" approach to Obamacare has morphed into "repeal and delay," the "repeal" bills will pass easily in both the Senate and the House.
The two key issues: repeal of Essential Health Benefits and repeal of the existing community ratings provision.
Mulvaney said the president wants to repeal and replace, so a "pure repeal" is off the table.
Continue to push, get the petitions signed, go to your neighbors and coworkers and repeal the repeal!
This has left repeal supporters grasping for tactical maneuvers that might salvage the repeal-and-replace strategy.
All told, partial repeal would leave uninsured nine million Americans who would have insurance under full repeal.
The options: a repeal-only bill or an updated version of the Senate's repeal-and-replacement measure.
It has lots of different scenarios — full repeal, partial repeal — and is kind of hard to follow.
But Congress has failed to pass a repeal-and-replace bill or any kind of Obamacare repeal.
" On congressional Republicans' effort to repeal Obamacare: "So we're gonna do repeal and replace, very complicated stuff.
"It may have to be a 'replace and repeal' — replace them and repeal the bill," she said.
But you can't just say repeal is out there and it has to be repeal or nothing.
Public support for repeal is low, and support for repeal without a replacement is in the basement.
They could have chosen to just repeal it now, with an effective repeal date in one year.
"This isn't an Obamacare repeal, it's a Medicaid repeal," as the political writer Jonathan Allen put it.
So "repeal and delay" went away and leadership vowed that "repeal and replace" would happen in one swoop.
Republican lawmakers filed a bill called "Repeal HB2" -- but it wasn't the "clean repeal" that many had expected.
Still, skinny repeal is the likely outcome if Senate Republicans can't coalesce around a repeal-and-replace legislation.
THAT'S NOT SAYING WE WANT REPEAL OF ALL REGULATION OR REPEAL OF DODD FRANK OR EVERYTHING LIKE THIS.
You mentioned earlier that we've seen a shift from Republicans supporting just repeal toward supporting repeal and replace.
Under the GOP repeal guidelines, four committees would have until late January to hand over their repeal proposals.
Republicans' Obamacare repeal efforts, which everyone thought kind of died after the "skinny repeal" debacle, have new life.
The kind of partial repeal possible through the reconciliation process could lead to greater instability than total repeal.
Repeal and replace is being offered as a "secondary amendment" to an amendment on the 85033 repeal bill.
Back then, Republicans could get credit for attempting to repeal Obamacare without the consequences of a full repeal.
Lacking large enough majorities in Congress to pass outright repeal, GOP leadership has sold Obamacare repeal and replacement as a three-phase plan, with partial repeal now and other key changes left for later.
Austin: I think they'll do it because they so thoroughly own the idea of repeal, having passed bills to repeal, partly repeal, delay or defund the A.C.A. in the House something like 60 times.
By the wee hours of Friday morning, three different Senate plans — a robust repeal-and-replace bill, a cleaner repeal bill, and finally so-called skinny repeal — had failed over three days of debate.
The full repeal brigade — shunning partial repeal and replacement In 2015, virtually every Senate Republican voted for a straight repeal of Obamacare — secure in the knowledge that then-President Barack Obama would veto it.
"It's so incredibly irresponsible to forward the notion that they have been preaching repeal and replace, repeal and replace, and they're going to repeal without telling the American people what the replace is," said Sen.
The ObamaCare repeal bill that the House passed in May would repeal the tax retroactively to the start of 2017, and the draft bill the Senate unveiled last month would also retroactively repeal the tax.
No. "Our rules won't allow us to call another meeting to repeal the repeal," City Council member Autry says.
There are competing bills, one to repeal and replace Obamacare, one to partially repeal it but with no replacement.
Americans remain divided on the question of Obamacare repeal, with 51 percent saying Congress should not repeal the law.
After the defeat of repeal and replace efforts, McConnell proposed a plan to repeal Obamacare without an immediate replacement.
This approach, dubbed "repeal and delay" because it offsets the repeal of Obamacare by two years, raises significant concerns.
California gas tax repeal: California voters Tuesday rejected a largely Republican-backed attempt to repeal a 2017 gas tax.
This week, the Senate will likely move to proceed on a bill to repeal and maybe repeal/replace Obamacare.
That capped a week of failed Senate votes on whether to simply repeal, or repeal and replace the law.
Consider now the past actions by presidents to enact-affirm-repeal-reenact-repeal and now reenact the policy again.
Republicans have long said that they want to repeal Dodd-Frank, and they'd probably send him a repeal bill.
Repeal Obamacare Republicans in Congress failed to repeal Obamacare last year, but the administration wants them to try again.
"I think the slogan will be 'repeal and replace,' 'repeal and replace,'" Mr. McConnell told reporters the next day.
It's unclear if even a clean repeal, rather than a repeal-and-replace plan, would pass muster for reconciliation.
John KennedyJohn Neely KennedyMORE (R-La.) said he thought mandate repeal brings full repeal and replacement a step closer.
Well, it's whether you have full repeal, whether you have partial repeal, whether you have the basis of it.
Nor is it the only way that net neutrality supporters are angling to repeal Pai's repeal, so to speak.
Politico's Dan Diamond has a timeline of the basic steps still remaining for repeal to pass: (You can read more about the mechanics of repeal in this explainer by Vox's Sarah Kliff.) Road to Obamacare repeal☑️ Senate passes budget House passes budget House drafts repeal bill House votes Back to Senate Senate debates bill, possible amendments Senate votes on repeal Conference committee Trump signs into lawMany steps still ahead.
The final Obamacare repeal bill that the Senate voted on in late July — so-called "skinny" repeal — got 49 votes.
It said that if the Charlotte City Council would repeal its ordinance, then they would fully repeal House Bill 2.
Already, the GOP plans to repeal Obamacare, and Paul Ryan announced on Thursday that the repeal includes defunding Planned Parenthood.
But to the most conservative Republicans, and their supporters, repeal means repeal — which includes everything, whether it's popular or not.
"There will be a repeal first, and I think the repeal will be at a minimum in name," Bertolini said.
No one would argue about whether it was a full repeal if they managed to repeal 90 percent of Obamacare.
Even in the GOP's 2015 repeal bill that was ultimately vetoed by Obama, Republicans didn't try to repeal the protections.
Senate rejects Obamacare repeal bill -- The ongoing health care debate started out with a delay of the Obamacare repeal vote.
Whatever provisions Republicans think they can actually agree to repeal, delay or weaken, they'd better repeal, delay or weaken soon.
Obamacare repeal is back The Republican effort to repeal Obamacare has re-emerged with a new bill led by Sens.
I also must add that I'm much less confident of a repeal (or partial repeal) without agreement on a replacement.
If you want a candidate to repeal Obamacare, then support a candidate who has LED the fight to repeal Obamacare.
The two leading options are a repeal-only bill or an updated version of the Senate's repeal-and-replacement measure.
First, the new Republican establishment leaders needed something they could call Obamacare repeal — anything that they could call Obamacare repeal.
Remember that the GOP couldn't even complete the "repeal" part of the "repeal and replace" Obamacare efforts back in 2017.
The two leading options are a repeal-only measure or an updated version of the Senate's repeal and replace bill.
Bills to cleanly repeal much of Obamacare or to more fully repeal and replace it don't currently have the votes.
What's next for you in terms of trying to repeal Hyde, and why is that repeal so important right now?
Americans' information independence is under attack, whether it's the repeal of net neutrality or the repeal of broadband privacy protections.
The findings indicate that a slight majority of voters would approve of either wholesale repeal or the law, or partial repeal.
John McCain (R-AZ) voted against the so-called "skinny repeal" version of the GOP plan to repeal Obamacare, joining Sens.
Repeal bills Bills to repeal HB2 have been introduced and placed on the Monday calendar for the state House of Representatives.
John McCain Well, it's whether you have full repeal, whether you have partial repeal, whether you have the basis of it.
For the latest repeal proposal, Cooper put forward a deal that would repeal HB2 in its entirety — with two big catches.
What we've seen among Republicans is a movement from those who support just repeal to those who support repeal and replace.
NO to a repeal-and-replace proposal The Senate Tuesday rejected a repeal-and-replace proposal in a 43-57 vote.
Since the House passed Obamacare repeal earlier this year, Senate Republicans have been crafting their own repeal bill behind closed doors.
Multiple senators who voted to repeal in 2015 seem to be going back on their vote and their promises to repeal.
Since the House passed Obamacare repeal earlier this year, Senate Republicans have been crafting their own repeal bill behind closed doors.
It would also repeal the adoption tax credit, no longer allow deductions for tax preparation and repeal credits for alimony payments.
In reality, all of the "repeal and delay" or "repeal and replace" plans on the table would harm millions of people.
Over the summer, Paul was critical of GOP leadership's repeal-and-replace bill, advocating for a clean repeal of ObamaCare instead.
The rule's repeal depends on whether enough moderate or populist Republicans join the rest of their party to repeal the rule.
The caucus voted Monday night to oppose any repeal bill that does not go as far as the 2015 repeal bill.
The third option would tie the debt ceiling vote to an ObamaCare repeal effort in case Republicans split repeal and replace.
Republicans had talked of returning to ObamaCare repeal in 2018 after their push to repeal the law collapsed in September. Sen.
When repeal-and-delay seemed like it might carry the day, he opposed it on the grounds that repeal-and-replace should be undertaken at the same time; now that Republicans are deep into negotiations to repeal and replace simultaneously, he's become enthusiastic about the repeal-and-fill-in-the-blanks-later revival he once opposed.
Republican leaders appear to leaning toward a vote to "repeal and delay" approach: passing a repeal bill as soon as possible but delaying the repeal measures from going into effect for several years until they approve a replacement plan.
How Republicans who voted against ObamaCare repeal fared in midterms Democrats relentlessly hit Republicans over their votes to repeal ObamaCare during the campaign this year, but there were 20 Republicans who didn't vote for the repeal bill last year.
The highlights: Repeal now and replace later: 20 percent Repeal only after a replacement plan is ready: 28 percent Don't repeal at all: 47 percent Repealing Obamacare is a top health care priority of only 37 percent of Americans.
They include a straight repeal of ObamaCare with a two-year delay; a Senate repeal-and-replace bill; and a slimmed-down repeal that would end the individual and employer mandates as well as a tax on medical devices.
Beyond these four holdouts, there are other GOP senators who have expressed concerns about various Obamacare repeal proposals in the past, or who voted against either McConnell's repeal-and-replace bill or the repeal-and-delay bill in July.
Republican leaders are considering a "repeal and delay" approach of preventing the repeal from going into effect for two or three years.
I believe that we'll repeal the Waters of the US, we'll repeal the Clean Air Act, and we'll pass Keystone Pipeline again.
When he turned his thumb down, "skinny" repeal — the Republican Party's last hope, for the time being, to repeal Obamacare — was dead.
Efforts to defund Planned Parenthood threaten Obamacare repeal Instead, Paul wants to replace Obamacare on the same day Republicans repeal the law.
Skinny repeal was an exceptionally narrow subset of Obamacare repeal, and even it caused three Republican defections, enough to kill the effort.
He had far worse 'stains' than this, including thumbs down on repeal and replace after years of campaigning to repeal and replace!
He had far worse "stains" than this, including thumbs down on repeal and replace after years of campaigning to repeal and replace!
"We can repeal, but we should repeal and replace, and we shouldn't leave town until this is complete," Trump told Republicans Thursday.
Other conservative members are pushing instead for a bill that would repeal Obamacare and working on a repeal bill at another time.
GOP unveils bills to repeal and replace ObamaCare: House Republicans on Monday unveiled their long-awaited legislation to repeal and replace ObamaCare.
That 2015 repeal language should be the floor, the bare minimum," they each tweeted Monday night along with the hashtag "full repeal.
It's unclear whether the Senate would take up a repeal-only measure or an updated version of its repeal-and-replace legislation.
As talks of a "skinny repeal" echo through the Capitol, conservatives' hopes of a more heavyset repeal of Obamacare collapsed on Wednesday.
"And understand that when people talk about partial repeal, it's because the process that's being used for repeal is reconciliation," Rubio continued.
After initially calling for an immediate repeal, Trump has relented, saying instead that the repeal and replace process could last into 2018.
Senate Republicans failed last month to repeal ObamaCare when all 48 Democratic senators and three Republican senators voted against the repeal bill.
"ACA repeal would reduce federal government spending, which appears to be one of the goals of those advocating repeal," the study finds.
But he has made Obamacare repeal a priority, suggesting he is likely to sign the repeal bill even if it arrives alone.
But he has not specified whether the bill will be to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, or simply repeal it.
Under Senate procedure, lawmakers need to vote on the repeal-and-replace proposal first, before then voting on the repeal-only amendment.
He voted no on two ObamaCare repeal proposals, before backing a so-called "skinny" repeal measure, that included more protections for Medicaid.
These early concerns indicate swelling reservations over what's become known as the GOP's "repeal and delay" strategy -- voting on repeal but delaying the repeal from going into effect for several years, buying the party time to craft a replacement plan. Sen.
First step, repeal-plus The House GOP is moving a repeal-plus plan, which seeks to repeal all it can via the budget rules and includes elements of replacement allowed by both the budget rules and the parliamentarian's interpretation of them.
The idea of "skinny" repeal — eliminating only the law's individual and employer mandates, as well as its tax on medical device companies — has surfaced only because Senate Republicans look painfully short on votes for repeal-only or repeal-and-replace legislation.
"Skinny repeal": If the Senate votes to start the debate, but it can't pass either its repeal-and-replace bill or a straight repeal bill, the last move might be something that just gets rid of the individual and employer mandates.
Read the complete CNN/SSRS poll here A majority still favor some form of repeal (34% would prefer repeal with replacement at the same time, and 18% favor repeal regardless of whether the law is replaced at the same time).
The sources said the repeal of ObamaCare's individual and employer insurance mandates, as expected, will also be included in the "skinny" repeal bill as a part of Senate GOP leaders' attempt to pass any legislation to keep the repeal process alive.
The conservative House Freedom Caucus voted Monday night to oppose an ObamaCare repeal bill if it does not go as far as the repeal measure that passed in 2015, drawing a line in the sand that could complicate Republican repeal efforts.
GOP leaders are currently considering passing a repeal bill but holding off on the repeal from going into effect for a few years.
In light of Trump's DACA repeal, Batalla Vidal is amending his lawsuit to include a challenge to the legality of the repeal itself.
Y.: He passed President Trump&aposs litmus tests -- repeal women&aposs freedom for their reproductive rights and repeal America&aposs health care. SEN.
And only then can Pai's critics, in Silicon Valley and beyond, embark on their efforts to repeal the FCC's repeal, so to speak.
It would be "a big loss" for hospitals financially if Trump's repeal of the ACA did not repeal that particular provision, Wilson said.
After all, the reason that congressional leaders did "repeal and replace" was because their initial idea of "repeal then replace" wasn't going anywhere.
As with many other regulations, the Trump administration is grappling with whether to repeal only or repeal and replace this particular methane rule.
This time, he cast the decisive vote defeating the Republican effort to repeal Obamacare, known as the "skinny repeal" bill, early Friday morning.
Perhaps the Republicans who assumed the Medicaid and insurance subsidies would survive under repeal were assuming repeal would include a full replacement, too.
Congressional Republicans voted earlier this month to lay the groundwork for ObamaCare repeal by passing a budget resolution that includes rules for repeal.
Republicans head into the weekend unsure of which bill they will be voting on — a clean repeal or the repeal-and-replace bill.
Those seeking its repeal are eager to argue that consumers bear the brunt of the costs as they push for the fee's repeal.
"We can repeal, but we should repeal and replace, and we shouldn't leave town until this is complete," Trump said at the meeting.
Fitzgerald cited the study in asking the EPA to repeal the rule, and the EPA cited it in a proposed repeal last year.
What's next: Since the EPA proposed last year to repeal the glider truck provision, it is now working to make that repeal final.
Comstock voted against Obamacare repeal but for the individual mandate repeal in the GOP tax cut bill, which Democrats are hitting her on.
A broader repeal measure, as well as a plan to repeal and replace ObamaCare simultaneously, also failed to get enough votes to pass.
Located in Virginia Beach, Virginia, Repeal Bourbons and Burgers gets its name from the push to repeal Prohibition in the early 20th century.
His vote in July was one of three key votes against a "skinny" ObamaCare repeal bill that ultimately helped doom the repeal effort.
MORE (Arizona) in voting against a barebones ObamaCare repeal bill put forth by GOP Senate leadership that was known as the "skinny" repeal.
McConnell called GOP efforts to repeal ObamaCare "the right thing for the country," despite their final efforts to push for repeal being unsuccessful.
Restarting the ObamaCare repeal debate after a repeal bill's stunning defeat by one vote in the Senate in July would reopen old wounds.
Unlike broader efforts at ObamaCare repeal earlier this year, the repeal of the mandate has been largely free of controversy among congressional Republicans.
Senate Republicans are running out of options to use for ObamaCare repeal, and momentum for a bare-bones ObamaCare repeal plan is growing.
"John McCain, if you look at his last campaign, it was all about repeal and replace, repeal and replace," Trump told the crowd.
The AARP opposes the House's push to repeal the deduction for medical expenses and the Senate's push to repeal the ObamaCare individual mandate.
Last year, he enraged conservatives by voting against the repeal, and then ultimately angered Democrats by turning around and voting for partial repeal.
But now, 52 senators have voted to essentially turn skinny repeal into policy buy tacking the individual mandate repeal onto their tax bill.
The key numbers: If they repeal everything (unlikely): Costs $350 billion over 10 years If they just repeal the coverage provisions (unlikely): Saves $1.6 trillion over 10 years If they repeal the coverage and taxes, but keep the Medicare payment cuts (more likely): Saves $750 billion over 10 years The group says repeal would increase the uninsured by 23 million.
GOP leaders have so far indicated a preference for the "repeal and delay" approach: passing a repeal bill as soon as possible but delaying the repeal measures from going into effect for several years as they develop a measure to replace the law.
But in the end, she voted all of them down: A major repeal-and-replace plan, a clean repeal and even "skinny" repeal — which did little more than end the law's individual mandate — proving a decisive vote against the GOP's top legislative item.
"If we can't repeal and replace it at the same time, we repeal the law and stay to work on replacement," Sasse told the crowd, reiterating his call to work through the congressional August recess, if necessary, to craft a repeal bill.
"He had far worse 'stains' than this, including thumbs down on repeal and replace after years of campaigning to repeal and replace!" the president tweeted on Saturday afternoon, invoking McCain's vote against the GOP effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act in 2017.
In late July of 2017, Republicans put forward three bills: one to repeal and replace the current healthcare law, one to partly repeal it, and one to repeal the mandates requiring individuals to have health insurance and employers to provide health insurance.
Less than 24 hours after President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell ditched their embattled plan to simultaneously repeal and replace Obamacare in favor of just a repeal, three Republican senators announced their plans to vote against the repeal-only bill.
Trump, who had loudly advocated for Obamacare repeal, several days ago appeared to suggest on Twitter that the repeal effort was dead, and that Republicans in Congress should not imperil his proposal for tax reform by spending any more time on repeal.
Mike Lee attended a Heritage Foundation roundtable titled "Congress Must Repeal Obamacare Immediately," which again showed conservatives getting nervous about the timeline for repeal.
Whether this is a temporary setback or a final blow for the repeal effort, though, repeal is far less likely than it was Thursday.
While the repeal vote occurred last December 14, the repeal itself doesn't take effect until 60 days after it's published in the Federal Register.
Cruz's call on his party to "repeal every word of Obamacare" came as the GOP is grappling with how quickly to repeal the law.
In Tuesday's repeal and replace vote, nine Republicans voted "no" (two women; seven men) and in Wednesday's repeal vote, seven (three women; four men).
Repeal Obamacare Republicans have been trying to repeal President Obama's signature health care law pretty much from the moment it was signed in 2010.
Technically, straight repeal and repeal-and-replace could both get a vote once the debate begins — but only one can be the final product.
The attempt to repeal and replace health care repeal is stalled indefinitely, with no sign of progress in the House, let alone the Senate.
Murkowski was one of three Republican senators who voted down a Republican ObamaCare repeal attempt over the summer, which included repeal of the mandate.
The company cited the study in asking the EPA to repeal the rule, and the EPA cited it in a proposed repeal last year.
This proposal is far different from their repeal efforts, focusing on the stabilization of markets while giving states more flexibility to repeal ObamaCare regulations.
It could be a clean ObamaCare repeal with a two-year delay, or a repeal-and-replace bill that has fractured the GOP conference.
What's next: If Republicans can't pass a repeal bill without a replacement, Obamacare repeal might take a lot longer than everyone thought it would.
It should repeal protocols that are undermining hospital flexibility in hard-hit areas and repeal restrictions on telemedicine and doctors practicing across state lines.
Skinny repeal is believed to be the only option that enough Republicans will vote to pass and that could still be called Obamacare repeal.
Congressional Republicans spent much of 2017 debating various plans to repeal Obamacare, but they ultimately did not have the votes for a broad repeal.
If the repeal of Dodd-Frank comes before Congress, CBO is capable of making a reasonable estimate of the likely budgetary effect of repeal.
Senate rejects repeal-only ObamaCare plan Senators on Wednesday rejected a key proposal that would repeal much of ObamaCare, despite intense pressure from conservatives.
Despite promising for nearly a decade to repeal ObamaCare, Mr. "Repeal it root and branch" himself, Leader McConnell, couldn't bring his conference to heel.
Even net neutrality repeal is not really final since the repeal will be challenged in court and stands a reasonable chance of being overturned.
Some Republican lawmakers are openly fretting about their leaders' repeal strategy, saying they must develop an Affordable Care Act replacement before they repeal it.
It only gets tougher if Obamacare repeal fails and you have to repeal all of its associated taxes through a tax reform bill instead.
Repeal and replace could happen simultaneously, in late 2017 or early 2018, with the replacement bill mitigating the coverage losses that come with repeal.
At the beginning of the new Congress, Ryan and others promised that the party would take a "repeal and delay" approach -- repeal the law first, but delay the repeal from going into effect while lawmakers figured out how to replace what was rolled back.
GOP Still Trying to Repeal Obamacare After Replacement DiesSenate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced late Monday that his party would draft a bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act entirely after it became clear the plan to pass a repeal and replace bill was dead.
"He had far worse 'stains' than this, including thumbs down on repeal and replace after years of campaigning to repeal and replace!" the president tweeted, referring to the Arizona lawmaker's vote against the GOP Senate majority during the Republican attempt to repeal ObamaCare in 2017.
The skinny bill would retroactively repeal the Obamacare penalty on individuals who do not purchase health insurance, repeal for eight years a penalty on certain employers who do not provide employees with health insurance and repeal a medical device tax through the end of 2020.
"He had far worse 'stains' than this, including thumbs down on repeal and replace after years of campaigning to repeal and replace!" the president tweeted, referring to the Arizona lawmaker's vote against the GOP Senate majority during the Republican attempt to repeal ObamaCare in 2017.
McConnell has two Senate bills at his disposal: the Obamacare Repeal Reconciliation Act, the clean (partial) repeal bill, and the Better Care Reconciliation Act, the plan to repeal and replace the health care law that Republicans have been debating for the last two months.
Another Obamacare repeal push was always going to be an uphill battle, especially after the dramatic floor votes that saw three repeal proposals voted down.
If you scrape away the duplicates, those numbers whittle down to 1.7 million unique comments against repeal and 24,000 unique comments in favor of repeal.
Since that publication occurred this week (you can find the full repeal order here), the actual repeal will now take effect sometime in late April.
The leadership aides also noted that the current repeal package being crafted by top Republicans would include more replacement provisions than the 2015 repeal bill.
Republicans have reworked their Obamacare repeal bill to funnel more money to states that also happen to be represented by senators pushing back against repeal.
Bill Cassidy Republicans have revived Obamacare repeal from the dead and are sprinting towards passing a new repeal bill by the end of next week.
Instead, he thinks Republican pollsters are watching a different trend much more closely: Republicans shifting their views from supporting repeal to supporting repeal and replace.
But here's the problem: There would be huge real-world impact of merely enacting a repeal law, regardless of when the actual repeal takes effect.
Rand Paul argued that some form of a repeal bill must be viable because Republicans already voted in support of repeal when Obama was president.
Many, including Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, said they did not know if their current plan is to pursue straight repeal, or repeal and replace.
McConnell had announced last week -- after a repeal and replace bill seemed immovable -- that the Senate would vote on a 2015 bill to repeal Obamacare.
If President elect Donald Trump manages to repeal the ACA, the repeal wouldn't take place until 2018, so coverage for 2017 would still be good.
Working with the Campaign to Repeal FATCA, grassroots taxpayer and free market groups, such as Americans for Tax Reform and National Taxpayers Union, support repeal.
But to credibly threaten repeal, first the resolution has to pass; then Republicans have to write their repeal bill; then that bill has to pass.
Completing the repeal  The next step for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is to publish its proposal to repeal Obama's plan in the Federal Register.
Trump had pushed for leadership to include a repeal in the bill after Republicans failed to fully repeal the health care law over the summer.
The Graham-Cassidy measure revives the GOP's efforts to repeal and replace parts of the ACA after a slimmed-down repeal bill failed in July.
Trump officials are working on a repeal-and-replace plan  Pruitt wants to repeal the rule and replace it with a more industry-friendly version.
Tuesday afternoon, Senate Republicans voted to start a debate on their version of a bill that will repeal and replace ObamaCare, or, repeal it only.
Obamacare repeal fight is back -- Republican leadership is looking to advance the Graham-Cassidy repeal bill, and it really comes down to convincing GOP Sens.
It sent a mailer out Tuesday demanding Republicans get behind full repeal, and it plans to release digital ads pushing full repeal later this week.
Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) and conservative think tanks unveiled their latest proposal to repeal the ACA, which could presage yet another repeal effort by Congress.
Voting on a clean repeal bill appeared to be McConnell's Hail Mary effort to get his conference to vote on some form of Obamacare repeal.
Republicans didn't stop working on Obamacare repeal this past summer, after the Senate rejected three separate Obamacare repeal bills within the course of three days.
Those Republicans who advocate "skinny repeal" as just a lighter version of "repeal and replace" are likely to be very surprised at the unintended result.
Republicans fell short of their goal to repeal and replace the law over the summer, when a scaled-down repeal bill failed in the Senate.
"He had far worse 'stains' than this, including thumbs down on repeal and replace after years of campaigning to repeal and replace!" the president continued.
While he once wished for "root-and-branch" repeal of the Affordable Care Act, he is not disappointed about the Republican failure to repeal it.
After opposing the GOP's first attempts to repeal Obamacare last spring, he eventually co-sponsored the Graham-Cassidy repeal legislation that nearly passed the Senate.
John McCain's iconic "thumbs down" vote denied Trump a full congressional repeal (even a "skinny repeal") of former President Barack Obama's signature health care law.
But now that they realize that repeal can't work, if they back off repeal, of course we'll work with them to make it even better.
Many spoke out against the idea of stand-alone repeal of the individual mandate this summer, when a bill known as "skinny repeal" was introduced.
And Plan A during the transition — called "repeal and delay" — was to quickly pass a repeal bill and then work out a replacement plan later.
Its passage would not be as big of a deal as Obamacare repeal would have been (and, no, the bill does not stealthily repeal Obamacare).
Eventually, Senate Republicans will swap the House bill for either the partial repeal bill or the repeal-and-replace plan — if they get that far.
Majorities of both parties on Hill want to repeal the IPAB, so it was a question of which vehicle was going to repeal the IPAB.
Democrats plan all-night "talk-a-thon" on Obamacare before early repeal vote — This event will not stop Republicans from moving forward on repeal efforts.
Obamacare repeal "Repeal and replace" has been the regular Republican refrain from virtually the day President Barack Obama's signature health care law became law in 2010.
"First it's repeal and delay; now it's repeal and hide," said Slavitt, who served as acting administrator of the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
The posting of the repeal in the federal register begins a 60-day shot clock for impacted parties to begin filing lawsuits to overturn the repeal.
You can say it's a partial repeal, that it repeals elements of Obamacare or that it puts several portions of Obamacare on a pathway to repeal.
You have Republican senators who have expressed reservations about voting for repeal and delay — but who are still open to voting for repeal without a replacement.
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The Republicans' failure to repeal the law they've been promising to repeal makes it clear that the only health care solution will be a bipartisan one.
That is why, in a completely bipartisan way, companies of all sizes and from all industries are asking Congress to repeal the repeal of net neutrality.
His decision to vote "no" on a "skinny repeal" of the Affordable Care Act was credited with killing the last Republican attempt to repeal the law.
McCain cast the decisive vote against the GOP's repeal bill in July and appears conflicted about whether to support the repeal bill sponsored by his friend.
It's not full repeal of ObamaCare, partially because a complete repeal isn't possible under Senate rules without Democrat cooperation, something we are not going to have.
It was plausible, if Republicans had won Congress in 20123 and won the presidency in 2012, that repeal and replace — or at least repeal — might happen.
Their current strategy seems to be to repeal Obamacare, but delay putting the repeal into effect in order to give themselves time to craft an alternative.
It's not immediately clear whether other Democrats would sign onto the effort to repeal SALT — and or if the repeal has a shot at becoming reality.
The reform would repeal ObamaCare's 3.8 percent tax on investment income, and would repeal the Alternative Minimum Tax and the Estate Tax (AKA the Death Tax).
Both senators opposed the repeal-and-replace plan and have said they would not vote to advance an alternative repeal-only bill backed by McConnell. Sen.
Trump can't simply repeal it himself, because it's written into law—Congress could repeal it, but they've tripped over themselves trying to do so thus far.
Senate Republicans are considering several legislative courses on healthcare, including a straight repeal of ObamaCare with a two-year delay, a Senate repeal-and-replace bill and a slimmed-down repeal that would end the individual and employer mandates as well as a tax on medical devices.
The repeal of the budget caps was discussed by lawmakers during nomination hearings but as of now there's been no legislation presented to formally repeal the sequestration.
The nearly even split between repeal advocates and repeal foes reflects the public's overall views of Obamacare, with 46 percent seeing it unfavorably, and 43 percent favorably.
On the other hand, when people are informed of anti-repeal arguments, which include people losing coverage, support for repeal drops to as low as 27 percent.
The GOP's incredible, shrinking Obamacare repeal In one faction are lawmakers increasingly wary of the pitfalls of a quick and sweeping repeal of the Affordable Care Act.
Opinion: Let transgender people achieve their American dream Repeal filed HB 946, a bill to repeal the controversial law, was filed Monday by North Carolina State Rep.
Bills to cleanly repeal much of Obamacare or to more fully repeal and replace the 2010 health care law don't currently have the votes necessary to pass.
House Democrats voted to repeal the 2001 war authorization Wednesday, the first time the House has successfully passed a repeal of the AUMF since it was enacted.
A straight repeal bill could easily be defeated, but it is essentially the last choice for a party that has spent seven years vowing to repeal Obamacare.
The two main options are the newest Senate repeal and replacement bill and a another bill that would merely repeal Obamacare and put off replacement until later.
The budgetary process will allow the repeal to clear the Senate with only 50 votes, preventing Democrats from being able to block the repeal with a filibuster.
Reductions of up to 50 percent in corporate rates, mentions of estate tax repeal, cuts in capital gains and repeal of the alternative minimum tax float around.
McConnell announced Monday night (after it was clear that his repeal and replace strategy had run aground) that members would vote on a 2015 repeal-only bill.
After the Senate's latest effort to repeal and replace Obamacare fell apart, Trump tweeted Monday that Republicans should just repeal the act now and replace it later.
He was at the helm when the GOP Congress tried more than 50 times to repeal the law, passing more than 50 repeal bills in 6 years.
Washington (CNN)The Senate has dealt a devastating setback to Republican efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare, defeating a GOP "skinny repeal" bill early Friday morning. Sens.
McConnell is now moving on to a repeal-without-replace bill (also known as repeal-and-delay), which is even more difficult to pass among moderate Republicans.
The first step would be to repeal ObamaCare as soon as possible, but to push back the effective date of the repeal to a year from now.
Cruz also said that Republicans should use tax reform as an opportunity to repeal Dodd-Frank, since the law would be difficult to repeal except under reconciliation.
"I think it's impractical to say — they're saying repeal everything, even those things the parliamentarian says we can't repeal, and then put them back in place," Sen.
The medical device industry mounted a major public relations blitz from the start for its repeal — and won some surprising backers for repeal, such as liberal Sens.
A broader repeal proposal and a measure to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act simultaneously also failed to get enough votes to pass in the Senate.
About one-third of the supporters of the mandate's repeal — or 20 percent of the public overall — switch to opposing repeal once they hear what could happen.
"If we get to impasse, if we go to a bill that is more repeal and less big government programs, yes, I'll consider partial repeal," he said.
The Senate bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act would start phasing out the expansion program in 2021 and fully repeal it three years later.
His skepticism about the political chances of ACA repeal, and his doubts that repeal could occur without potentially causing millions to lose their health insurance, proved prescient.
On Wednesday afternoon, a cleaner repeal bill, the Obamacare Repeal Reconciliation Act, also failed, 45 to 55, with seven Republicans and all Democrats voting to block it.
President Donald Trump called the failure of Congress to repeal Obamacare "disgusting" on Monday — and expressed deep pessimism that a latch-ditch Republican repeal effort will succeed.
But those attitudes had already started to shift by the time the GOP began its repeal drive in 245 -- and the repeal effort itself accelerated the reversal.
The more than 50 votes to repeal ObamaCare in the GOP-led House have all been sharply along party lines with few Democrats in favor of repeal.
The House version of the "repeal and replace" bill, the American Health Care Act, fell short of nearly a decade's worth of promises to actually repeal ObamaCare.
"The big (insurers) were generally insulated from coverage effects of repeal but would have benefited from health insurer fee repeal," said analyst Michael Newshel of Evercore ISI.
One of the reasons the repeal effort has stalled is that people are beginning to understand that repeal and cuts to Medicaid would touch all of us.
The trade association has been mostly silent during the repeal process, but did come out against a "skinny" repeal bill that died on the floor in July.
" He added on Wednesday that the effort to get either an ObamaCare repeal, or an ObamaCare repeal and replace bill, through the Senate "certainly won't be easy.
Senate Republicans have been widely seen as the likely holdouts in efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, pushing for a robust replacement before any wholesale repeal.
Repeal efforts have stalled in Congress as Senate GOP leaders mull whether to vote on a bill to repeal the CFPB measure under the Congressional Review Act.
After years of unity on the need to repeal Obamacare, Republicans are splintering over the American Health Care Act, the bill that would repeal and replace it.
His growing concern has pushed him toward wanting to just vote for clean repeal, despite having argued against a repeal-and-delay strategy only six months ago.
Collins: 'I'm not crazy' about ObamaCare repeal bill Cruz: House's ObamaCare repeal bill can't pass the Senate Trump to dine with Cruz amid healthcare push Paul 'emboldened' by Trump tweeting at him on ObamaCare DNC chairman: 'Reckless' repeal plan shows GOP clueless on health policy Amash: GOP wants to 'ram' ObamaCare plan through Congress Schumer: 'Reckless' to vote on ObamaCare repeal without budget score White House goes after budget office scoring healthcare bill And check out The Hill's Whip List, tracking where Republicans stand on the ObamaCare repeal and replace legislation.
The Senate is currently working with two versions of a health care bill: the Better Care Reconciliation Act — a version of the House bill that would repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act — and the Obamacare Repeal Reconciliation Act, which would repeal first and delay replacement by two years.
It scrutinizes the proposals to repeal the Clean Power Plan and replace it with a far weaker alternative that environmentalists say could increase greenhouse gas emissions, to repeal future plans to increase car fuel efficiency standards, and to repeal methane emissions standards for oil and natural gas drillers.
"Health care" was in our style guide before this year — but we did add related terms, such as "essential health benefits" and "cost-sharing reduction subsidies," which frequently featured in stories about Republicans' many attempts to repeal and replace (or "clean repeal," or "skinny repeal") the Affordable Care Act.
" Brooks continued, "And you may not even see a vote to repeal Obamacare, you might see something where they call it a repeal but really it's an amendment.
Unable to pass even a so-called "skinny repeal," it was unclear if Senate Republicans could advance any health bill despite seven years of promises to repeal Obamacare.
Senate leaders have said they want to use a pared-down repeal bill only to enter negotiations with the House for a more robust repeal-and-replace plan.
This was the "repeal and delay" strategy — pass a quick repeal, set it to go into effect in a few years, and write the replacement in the meantime.
McConnell, for his part, seems allergic to any risk of another repeal humiliation, after Senate Republicans tried and failed to pass three different repeal bills in late July.
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi warned Republicans on Thursday against efforts to repeal or "sabotage" Obamacare, as House Speaker Paul Ryan said the GOP remained committed to repeal.
The delayed repeal strategy would buy them time to work on the replacement, but some Republicans want a replacement to happen at the same time as repeal. Sen.
With Mr. Trump confidently voicing his pledge to repeal and replace Obamacare as one of the first orders of business, his appointment of pro-repeal and replace Rep.
Some are demanding that the "Obamacare repeal resolution" allow committees more time to draft repeal legislation, so that it can be introduced in tandem with an Obamacare alternative.
Recent headlines make clear that after multiple failures to repeal Obamacare this year, the GOP has no plans to pull back from its Affordable Care Act repeal effort.
The medical device tax is not the only tax that groups are looking to find a way to repeal, now that the larger ObamaCare repeal effort is stalled.
Carlos Curbelo (R-Fla.), a top target for Democrats who voted for repeal, released a lengthy four-paragraph statement in Spanish and English defending his vote to repeal.
I hope my colleagues will join me in this dual path – support this clean repeal and oppose the bailouts and fake repeal that come with the leadership bill.
"  Sasse said if the Senate does push through a clean repeal, lawmakers should remain in Washington, D.C. in August to work on repeal plans in "full public view.
"The idea of 'repeal and replace' is really, 'repeal and collapse,'" Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell said in an interview with "PBS Newshour" this week.
In a nationwide poll by Public Opinion Strategies, when voters were asked if they agree more with proposals to repeal or implement the tax, two-thirds favor repeal.
Earlier this week, the Charlotte city council voted to repeal its ordinance, based on what they thought was a guarantee that Republicans in Raleigh would then repeal HB2.
For millions of Americans who are fans of the ACA, a skinny repeal may not be as bad as a full repeal, but it isn't much better either.
Congressional Republicans have vowed a prompt repeal of President Obama's signature healthcare law but have yet to coalesce around a replacement plan or the timing of a repeal.
But the Graham-Cassidy repeal bill, the GOP's last-ditch attempt to pass a repeal before the deadline, is considered dead after failing to win enough Republican votes.
Holler, the Heritage Action spokesman, said the repeal vote demonstrates to voters that Republican leaders will follow through on repeal if and when they win the White House.
Mr. Trump has said he would seek to repeal it, but some provisions, like the requirements that there be no pre-existing exclusions, are too popular to repeal.
McConnell then pivoted to the idea of repeal and delay: holding a clean Obamacare repeal vote this week and setting a deadline for two years in the future.
President Trump himself helped launch a boomlet of repeal-now-replace-later speculation last week, when he tweeted that a repeal-only bill would be better than nothing.
The new ObamaCare repeal bill gives states a way to repeal protections for people with pre-existing conditions, a controversial move that opponents of the bill are denouncing.
Republicans haven't been able to reach consensus on a full repeal-and-replace plan, but leaders hope they can at least agree to repeal the law's unpopular mandates.
The "skinny" repeal bill being considered by the Senate is likely to repeal the individual insurance mandate, as well as the employer mandate and the medical device tax.
During the ObamaCare repeal debate, Republicans warned that lawmakers could either vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act or slide closer to a government-run health insurance system.
Repeal of the rule has set off an unrelated debate — did this action indicate an increased willingness by Congress to repeal or moderate other aspects of Dodd-Frank?
Although Republicans didn't make good on their promise to repeal "every word of ObamaCare" this summer, they can take an important step and repeal at least the IPAB.
Congressional Budget Office estimates of uninsured rates and consumer costs under both the repeal and replace and the repeal-first plans' effects stirred concerns among more moderate Republicans.
Some Democrats are open to repeal of that board, known as the Independent Payment Advisory Board, in theory, but they object that repeal would not be paid for.
GOP leadership signaled that they might not know what the ultimate outcome will be, repeal-only or repeal-and-replace, until after they get on the House bill.
McCain's vote in July was one of three key votes against a pared-down repeal bill that ultimately helped doom Republican efforts to repeal and replace the law.
Groups are also pushing for the repeal or further delay of several taxes created by ObamaCare, including the repeal of the "Cadillac tax" on high-cost health plans.
The bill has divided the Republican Party, with some wanting to replace and repeal portions of the current law simultaneously and the rest wanting to repeal it first.
Remember: The GOP's skinny repeal proposal, which didn't do much more than repeal the ACA's mandates, couldn't get 50 votes in the Senate, in part for those reasons.
We don't know if Obamacare repeal will face protest from the right-wing House Freedom Caucus, which doesn't like the idea of putting off Obamacare repeal at all.
The collective of states aren't the only ones suing Trump over the DACA repeal — the National Immigration Law Center is looking to amend one of their active cases in Texas challenging the repeal of Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA) to address the DACA repeal, too.
To quell the widespread concerns, GOP leaders committed to simultaneously "repeal and replace" parts of the law, and got to work on inserting replacement measures into the repeal package.
I come back to the idea that Obamacare repeal is an alluring prospect to Republicans, and even if it's not their ideal repeal, they will line up behind it.
I'll be wearing a Repeal T-shirt in support of the Repeal the Eighth campaign, and tying a "Healthcare Not Airfare" tag to my luggage when I fly home.
"If we get to impasse, if we go to a bill that is more repeal and less big government programs, yes I'll consider partial repeal," Paul said on ABC.
In the 48 hours since progressives won the repeal vote, there were more than 170 rallies and events all over the country to fight back against repeal and sabotage.
NO to a repeal-only measure, with a two-year delay The Senate Wednesday rejected a proposal to repeal Obamacare without an immediate replacement in a 45-55 vote.
Already, McConnell and Paul Ryan have caved a bit, saying that, while they plan to push ahead with repeal, they may include some "replacement provisions" in the repeal bill.
As Republicans hurry to repeal the law, "they're not even close to agreement about what comes next — or even when the repeal should take effect," Politico reported late Wednesday.
Other lawmakers are worried repeal could cause chaos in the insurance market that would be politically damaging to Republicans, or simply that their constituents could lose coverage under repeal.
Estimates on the actual Republican repeal bill are likely to differ because under the fast-track rules the GOP is using, lawmakers cannot repeal every provision in the law.
But about the same amount of Republicans said Congress should continue its efforts to repeal the former president's signature healthcare legislation completely or try again to repeal and replace.
The final option would be to link the debt ceiling to the ObamaCare repeal effort in the event that the bill was split into separate repeal and replace sectors.
McConnell said last week the Senate will continue to pursue a joint repeal and replace of ObamaCare, despite Trump's tweet regarding a clean repeal followed by a later replacement.
Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), a critical swing vote who opposes repeal only and the current repeal-and-replace plan, said late last week in a local radio interview.
The repeal is part of a broad Trump administration effort to repeal environmental rules it finds unnecessary and to promote domestic production of fossil fuels and other energy sources.
"We support a single repeal-and-replace package, but are concerned that a strategy to repeal now then later replace the A.C.A. could have serious consequences," Mr. Kasich wrote.
McConnell was visibly emotional during brief remarks on the floor after falling short of his promise to repeal ObamaCare after three GOP senators voted against the "skinny" repeal bill.
Although a repeal of the tax was also a part of the 2015 effort to repeal the health law that passed Congress, it was vetoed by former President Obama.
The Republican-dominated committee that approved the repeal bill did so under South Dakota's "state of emergency" provision that would prevent voters from reversing the repeal with another referendum.
The effort to repeal and replace ObamaCare in the Senate collapsed early Friday morning when the "skinny repeal" of the Affordable Care Act failed in a 51-49 vote.
"We can repeal it, but we should repeal it and replace, and we shouldn't leave town until this is complete, until this bill is on my desk," Trump said.
Heller and Sandoval joined in initial opposition to Senate Republicans's first effort to pass an ObamaCare repeal this summer, but Heller eventually voted for a scaled-down repeal bill.
Moving to repeal Obama's net neutrality rules In another blow to regulations enacted under Obama, the Federal Communications Commission voted to repeal its landmark net neutrality rules this month.
It is no surprise that yet another attempt to "repeal and replace" or maybe just "repeal" or maybe just "pass something so we can say we did something" failed.
The thing they had repeatedly passed only to face Obama's veto pen was repeal of Obamacare — repeal that was always supposed to be paired with some unspecified future replacement.
For example, the order is poorly drawn: It doesn't force repeal, it simply calls for the agency that writes a new regulation to "identify" two for (presumably future) repeal.
That would take some of the wind out of the sails of repeal in Congress, but it's not clear that ACA repeal is a personal passion point for Trump.
Obviously, ACA repeal did not happen, and in particular the Medicaid cuts that Ryan pushed for in the House versions of ACA repeal fared extremely poorly in the Senate.
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John McCain, who previously suggested he would like his party to slow down on repeal efforts, demurred when asked Monday if he had concerns about a "repeal and delay" strategy.
"On a difficult issue where the parties don't have a lot of trust, we got thrown a curveball by the less than full repeal by Charlotte," Republican repeal supporter Rep.
Obamacare repeal efforts In addition, Democrats are pointing to two new provisions added in the rules package that they say are designed to help the GOP effort to repeal Obamacare.
They slammed Republican leaders for getting cold feet on a "clean repeal" now that they finally have a GOP President in the White House to sign an Obamacare repeal bill.
The White House and House leadership had inched their way in offering to repeal a key insurance mandate, but they wanted more -- a repeal of Obamacare's entire insurance regulation infrastructure.
Pointing to the potential repeal of the estate tax as an example, he argued that its repeal would only compel the wealthiest Americans to protect those savings in family trusts.
While the full details have not been revealed yet, "skinny repeal" would reportedly essentially repeal the more unpopular parts of Obamacare, such as the individual mandate to buy health insurance.
And when the Republicans took control of the House in 2011 and the whole of Congress in 2015, all we saw from their side was repeal vote after repeal vote.
After announcing that he would oppose any Republican effort to repeal and replace Obamacare in June 2017, Heller went on co-sponsor an Obamacare repeal-and-replace bill with Sens.
It was the political motivation behind Republican efforts to pass a widely unpopular repeal-and-replace plan, and then to consider a risky repeal-and-delay plan in the Senate.
What's next: Twenty hours of debate, followed by votes on the Senate's repeal and replacement plan and a 2015 bill that would repeal much of the ACA without replacing it.
And "skinny repeal" is in some ways comparable to a new motion to proceed — to another unknown and secretive process, but with a little bit of repeal as a backstop.
Jerry Moran, one of the senators who stood in the way of the earlier repeal-and-replace plan, won't stand in the way of the current repeal-then-replace plan.
There will be one amendment for a straight repeal bill with no replacement, one for the repeal-and-replace plan proposed by Senate Republican leadership, and possibly several more options.
On Friday, President Trump called for an immediate repeal of Obamacare, but the majority leader said he plans to continue the effort to repeal and replace the current health mandate.
He announced shortly thereafter that the Senate would attempt to consider a full repeal of the Obamacare legislation, but with a two-year delay on the repeal going into effect.
Even though the Republican Senate now lacks the votes to repeal and replace the ACA, President Trump is tweeting to repeal the act now and replace it in the future.
Senate Republicans have been unable to reach consensus on an approach, with McConnell failing to secure enough votes for either a repeal and replacement of Obamacare or a straight repeal.
People living in high-tax states would be hit by repeal of federal deductions for state and local taxes under the Senate bill, and partial repeal under the House measure.
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But grassroots conservatives took the votes and campaign promises to repeal ObamaCare seriously, only to watch a vote on a 2015-style repeal amendment receive only 45 votes in July.
Some Republicans are pushing to repeal the mandate in their tax reform bill to help pay for cuts, so a projection of less savings would make mandate repeal less useful.
Freedom Caucus members have been pushing for a straight repeal of the healthcare law since efforts to repeal-and-replace came to a halt in the Senate this week. Rep.
Senate GOP considers adding opioid funding to ObamaCare repeal bill Senate Republicans are considering adding funding for opioid abuse treatment to their ObamaCare repeal bill, according to senators and aides.
The adult beverage-centric group was hosting a "Repeal Day" event by the Capitol South Metro station in Washington to mark the 85th anniversary of the 1933 repeal of Prohibition.
Protesters were also reportedly planning to speak out against GOP plans to repeal and replace ObamaCare, push for the repeal of North Carolina's bathroom bill and voice opposition to gerrymandering.
This year, the American Civil Liberties Union is working to get Democrats on the record supporting a repeal of Hyde — 2020 hopeful Pete Buttigieg has already called for a repeal.
Central to this program is the so-called Great Repeal Bill – which would repeal the 1972 European Communities Act and effectively end the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.
"If they can't pass this carefully crafted repeal and replace bill — do those two things simultaneously — we ought to just repeal only," Pence said in an interview with Rush Limbaugh.
The president and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had called for a simple repeal, but three Republican senators — all women — announced their plans to vote against a repeal-only bill.
Medical device tax repeal gets traction in part because it seems a realistic target at a moment when passing any sort of Obamacare repeal has proved a vexingly difficult task.
First, the idea was to do "repeal and delay": Pass a bill, like Price's, to quickly repeal the law and then spend the next couple of years formulating a replacement.
But what is truly "reckless, outrageous and undignified" are Mr. Flake's votes to repeal the Affordable Care Act, to repeal consumer protections and to delay hurricane relief to Puerto Rico.
The scaled-back bill the Senate is expected to pass Thursday night will likely include a repeal of ObamaCare's individual insurance mandate and a partial repeal of the employer mandate.
On Monday, the Senate Republican repeal-and-replace bill appeared stalled, and McConnell said the chamber would vote on a motion to begin debate on the House's ObamaCare repeal bill.
"If they can't pass this carefully crafted repeal and replace bill -- do those two things simultaneously -- we ought to just repeal only," Pence said in an interview with Rush Limbaugh.
"We can repeal it, but we should repeal it and replace, and we shouldn't leave town until this is complete, until this bill is on my desk," Trump said Wednesday.
I have watched from afar with excitement and solidarity as women marched for repeal across Ireland on Women's Day and as politician after politician comes out in favor of repeal.
GOP leadership will need at least 50 senators to vote to take up the House bill and pave the way for trying to either repeal or repeal and replace ObamaCare.
Some Republicans are pushing to repeal the mandate in their tax-reform bill to help pay for cuts, so a projection of less savings would make mandate repeal less useful.
Nevertheless, the real test comes later — when net neutrality-supporting Democrats have to rally a majority of votes in the Senate in order to repeal Pai's repeal, so to speak.
Maybe even worse, when asked what would happen when "Obamacare" was repealed, roughly 44 percent of people did not realize that would mean a repeal of the Affordable Care Act—12 percent said a repeal of Obamacare would not result in a repeal of the ACA, and 32 percent said they didn't know.
Though it seemed as if the effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act was dead in the water after the so-called "skinny" repeal bill failed this summer with a dramatic late-night vote against it by McCain, there is a renewed push to pass a repeal before the end of the month.
Instead of threatening the Freedom Caucus — whose members took the stand they did because they wanted to help President Trump keep his campaign promise to repeal ObamaCare — the president and Speaker Ryan should think about the two goals of the "repeal and replace" promise on which they campaigned: First, repeal ObamaCare entirely.
If they want new entitlement programs and they want new government, Obamacare-lite, they can put that separately as a replacement bill, but the repeal bill ought to be a repeal.
Jim Jordan, a member of the House Freedom Caucus, announced that he and Paul would introduce in each chamber a "clean repeal" bill in order to separate out repeal and replace.
Since senators came out against both the original and revised version of the repeal-and-replace bill, and against the repeal-only bill, the plan is pretty much on life support.
Republicans' last-ditch effort was a "skinny repeal" bill that would have eliminated a few major Obamacare guidelines, but their third repeal attempt couldn't pass an early Friday morning vote, either.
" (A reference to a 2015 repeal bill passed through the same Senate process.) Conn Carroll, a Lee spokesman, on what he wants next: "Full [Consumer Freedom Amendment] or 2015 repeal bill.
How Obamacare repeal defines the campaign: You might have forgotten about the Upton amendment, which was cooked up in the frantic final days before the House passed its Obamacare repeal bill.
Paul's position (also on "This Week"): He said the current proposal isn't a repeal of Obamacare, but he'd compromise and vote for an 80% repeal if leadership would work with him.
That was why the emergence of the "skinny repeal" option Tuesday is noteworthy -- a scaled back version of repeal that would knock out the Obamacare mandates and some of the taxes.
CNN Money: 'Skinny repeal' of Obamacare would wreck the insurance market Experts have already warned the skinny repeal could drive up the cost of insurance and destabilize the individual insurance market.
Rand Paul has asked for similar assurances regarding the 2015 repeal-only bill, or a very clear opportunity to separate the insurance stabilization aspects of any bill from the repeal portion.
The independent scoring agency released two scores: one on an updated score of the 2015 repeal-only bill, and another on a revised version of the Senate's repeal and replace bill.
The EPA under President Trump opposes and is working to repeal the Clean Power Plan, the water rule and the methane rule, and is reviewing the ozone rule for potential repeal.
" Repeal and replace:Speaker Paul Ryan spokesman Doug Andres: "The speaker does not see anything that changes his view that the Senate should keep its focus on repeal and replace of Obamacare.
But for procedural reasons, the Senate would first need 50 votes to start debate on the repeal-and-replace plan before McConnell can force a vote on the clean repeal bill.
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The Senate GOP's effort to repeal and replace ObamaCare collapsed this week after a "skinny" repeal of the law failed to pass the upper chamber by a vote of 49-51.
Healthcare CEOs: Not so fast on ObamaCare repeal More than two-thirds of healthcare CEOs oppose the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, according to a new survey by Modern Healthcare.
The legislation from Toomey and Cotton represents the latest legislative effort to repeal small parts of Obama's health law after Congress failed to repeal and replace the law in its entirety.
It would also repeal the deduction for state and local income and sales taxes, cap the property tax deduction and limit the mortgage interest deduction and repeal the alternative minimum tax.
It was not immediately clear which bill McConnell wanted to move to -- a straight repeal of ObamaCare or the Senate's ObamaCare repeal-and-replace legislation, which had seemed dead days ago.
Legislation to repeal ObamaCare with a two-year delay only secured 28500 votes on Wednesday, a day after a repeal-and-replace bill won just 6900 votes in a procedural motion.
STATES SUE FCC OVER NET NEUTRALITY REPEAL: Twenty-two state attorneys general have filed a lawsuit against the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) over the agency's repeal of its net neutrality rules.
On Tuesday, McConnell said the Senate would move forward with a plan to repeal ObamaCare, even as the repeal-only plan has already faced opposition by some members of his conference.
But, Null says, those regulations actually predate Congress's repeal of the FCC rule (in the aftermath of that repeal, Nevada also passed a bill to enhance the state's existing privacy protections).
Should the net neutrality repeal survive a looming storm of court challenges, the FCC's repeal "preempts" states from protecting consumers in the wake of this newfound federal apathy to consumer welfare.
The Medicaid problem: The House Freedom Caucus voted Monday evening to oppose anything narrower than the 2015 repeal bill passed by both chambers, which included a repeal of the Medicaid expansion.
It was not immediately clear which bill McConnell wanted to move to — a straight repeal of ObamaCare or the Senate's ObamaCare repeal-and-replace legislation, which had seemed dead days ago.
The Kentucky Republican floated that Senate leadership should guarantee votes on some of the caucus's most prominent healthcare proposals — including repeal-only, repeal-and-replace and a bill created by Sens.
Last month, Republicans' efforts to repeal and replace ObamaCare collapsed in the Senate, with a scaled-down repeal measure failing after three GOP senators broke from the party and voted no.
Of the repeal supporters, a larger share (28 percent) want lawmakers to wait on abolishing the ACA until they have a firm replacement plan than want an immediate repeal (18 percent).
Thus even as he touted his tax cuts, Trump effectively buried further efforts at Obamacare repeal by suggesting that the repeal of the unpopular individual mandate sufficed as health care policy.
Beginning in October, Republicans would need Democratic votes in order to pass a repeal bill, a seeming impossibility given that Democratic senators have been unified in opposition to the repeal push.
GOP leader: Repeal ObamaCare now, replace it later House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Tuesday that Republicans could repeal ObamaCare even before they have come up with a replacement.
Trump said Republicans have been promising for years that they'd repeal ObamaCare, and now with Republicans controlling Congress and the White House, he said he's "waiting" to sign a repeal bill.
Top Senate Republicans ding CBO amid concerns over ObamaCare repeal: Top Senate Republicans are knocking the Congressional Budget Office amid growing concerns about House Republicans' bill to repeal and replace ObamaCare.
Trump is reportedly mocking McCain over his opposition to the Senate GOP's ObamaCare repeal legislation, including mimicking his dramatic thumbs down to the "skinny repeal" bill in July, according to Axios.
By passing a so-called "skinny" repeal bill, Senate Republicans would keep the repeal effort alive long enough to try to negotiate a broader compromise bill with the House of Representatives.
Early this morning, lawmakers narrowly voted down a plan to repeal parts of the Affordable Care Act, with three Republicans — Susan Collins, John McCain and Lisa Murkowski — opposing the "skinny" repeal.
A rigorous poll found that only 20 percent of Americans favor a repeal without an immediate replacement, and a handful of Senate Republicans have publicly expressed anxiety about repeal-and-delay.
Republicans, many of whom had already moved on from repeal, face a busy September of funding the government and raising the debt ceiling, making time for action on repeal extremely slim.
She and other Democrats say his vote for skinny repeal was a step away from the opposition to repeal promised during a high-profile June press conference with popular Nevada Gov.
There was, in January, a bit of chatter about "repeal and delay," where Congress would quickly pass a repeal plan and, a few years into the future, figure out the replacement.
As of Monday morning, nobody is even sure what the end goal for Republicans is: A bill to repeal and replace Obamacare or a clean (partial) repeal bill with no replacement.
Though many members of Congress seem reluctant to take up repeal again, some reporting this week suggests House Republicans insist they are still searching for a way to push forward repeal.
North Carolina fails to repeal 'bathroom bill' -- now what?
Consider a small proposal — repeal of the estate tax.
Senate Republicans have admitted defeat on Obamacare repeal — again.
First, he denied he'd ever promised to repeal — ObamaCare.
"All I hear is 'repeal and replace,' " Trump said.
" But Trump also said, "Where is repeal and replace?
Neither bill — Obamacare repeal, or immigration reform — went anywhere.
Trump's sudden re-resolve to get "Obamacare" repeal-and-replace passed came after he's been on all sides of the issue in a whiplash-inducing series of remarks over recent days and weeks, supporting repeal and replace, straight repeal, and finally doing nothing so "we'll just let Obamacare fail," as he declared on Tuesday.
Trump just turned the Republican effort to repeal Obamacare into an even bigger fiasco Trump just turned the Republican effort to repeal Obamacare into an even bigger fiasco Donald Trump on Tuesday urged Republicans in Congress to repeal Obamacare immediately and worry about a replacement plan later, during an interview with the New York Times.
But importantly, it still remains possible that Republicans can pass something — the repeal-and-delay bill (the Obamacare Repeal Reconciliation Act), the House bill (the American Health Care Act), or some kind of stripped-down "skinny" repeal — with a bare majority under the reconciliation process, so long as it abides by the chamber's rules.
You're either going to vote with Donald Trump to repeal and replace Obamacare or you're going to vote with Nancy Pelosi to defeat the only bill that will repeal and replace Obamacare.
Effort to defund Planned Parenthood threatens Obamacare repeal Republicans have been criticized for wanting to repeal the Affordable Care Act quickly without having a clear plan on replacing what they roll back.
Dean Heller — one of the most-watched holdouts in the GOP's effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act — announced this afternoon that he'd vote to allow debate to proceed on repeal efforts.
At first he was against the Senate bill, then he was a maybe, then he voted against both the Senate replacement and its partial repeal bill but for the skinny repeal bill.
"This hearing will be an important opportunity to hear what the repeal of net neutrality means for the American people," said Doyle, "and what has happened since the repeal went into effect."
One Obamacare repeal plan was voted down on Tuesday evening and a second plan, to just repeal Obamacare and it replace it later failed on Wednesday afternoon, with seven GOP no votes.
Trump signs repeal of transparency rule for oil companies: President Trump signed legislation Tuesday to repeal a controversial regulation that would have required energy companies to disclose their payments to foreign governments.
Between the lines: Note the repeal bill that the conservative groups aren't key voting: any version of the Better Care Reconciliation Act, the Senate repeal-and-replace bill that failed last night.
Instead of the current bill, many conservatives in both the House and Senate are seeking a clean repeal of ObamaCare along the lines of a repeal that passed both chambers in 2015.
If the repeal vote also fails, it might be time for Republicans to give up the ghost of Obamacare repeal entirely and move on to smaller fixes to the health care system.
While several congressional leaders have stepped up to taking leading roles in advocating for death tax repeal, congressional members generally have been less vocal about the necessary inclusion of gift tax repeal.
Some Democrats opposed repeal of the tax, though, pointing out it would deprive the government of about $85033 billion over 10 years and that repeal of the tax is not paid for.
Chapter Two: RIP Repeal & Replace The last-ditch attempt to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act -- a promise eight years in the making for Republicans -- failed without even a floor vote.
The six-month delay from the date of the Federal Communications Commission's controversial repeal of net neutrality was essentially about red tape; on Monday, the full terms of the repeal take effect.
"There is absolutely no electoral empirical evidence whatsoever that favoring repeal of ObamaCare or favoring Medicaid reform or even repeal of the expansion … has ever cost a Republican an election," he said.
CALIFORNIA LEADS SUIT AGAINST FRACKING RULE REPEAL: California and a group of environmental organizations sued the Trump administration Wednesday over the Interior Department's repeal of its hydraulic fracturing rule for federal land.
Introducing a repeal of the individual mandate into the tax debate, however, is a risky proposition for Senate Republicans who failed to repeal the mandate in July after three Republicans -- Collins, Sen.
"When we told voters we were going to repeal ObamaCare, we didn't say, 'We're going to repeal ObamaCare but keep some of the taxes,' which is in the leadership plan," he said.
Susan Collins: Collins has voiced concerns about the inclusion of the repeal of Obamacare's individual mandate, as well as the repeal of the state and local tax deduction (also known as SALT).
Republicans needed a simple majority of votes to clear the repeal rules, instructing committees to begin drafting repeal legislation, through the upper chamber, with the vote falling largely along party lines.  Sen.
ObamaCare repeal has largely fallen off the GOP agenda for 2018, in part due to the realities of a narrower Senate majority than one that already failed to pass a repeal bill.
Hell, if it were as bad as they say it is, straight repeal would be an improvement — but even conservative Republicans don't dare discuss repeal without some kind of vague, wonderful replacement.
If the GOP succeeds in getting the votes to pass a repeal without a replace, they're going to make sure voters understand exactly how the repeal hurt them, and who is responsible.
And Rand Paul has said he's voting against the budget resolution starting the repeal process because of the amount of government spending, but will probably eventually vote for the Obamacare repeal bill.
Debate about "Trumpcare" — the repeal, and replacement, of the 2010 Affordable Care Act — has ignored the fact that congressional Republicans are, effectively, also working to repeal, and replace, the 2023 Medicaid Act.
The House bill would repeal the estate tax, Furman wrote, and it "would also retain the step-up-basis loophole that even" President George W. Bush's estate tax repeal would have eliminated.
That's not obviously the case — it may be that Republicans just want to repeal Obamacare and replace it with lower taxes, or to repeal Obamacare and replace it with less subsidized insurance.
" She also pointed out the particular threat the ACA repeal might hold for women: "ACA repeal at the same time that Planned Parenthood is under threat can mean no recourse for [women].
Therefore I believe it will fail," Paul said, adding, "If we cannot pass full, clean repeal, I've also been told we will vote on whatever version of CLEAN repeal we can pass.
The GOP is moving forward this month with plans to repeal ObamaCare without a replacement, but delay repeal going into effect for a few years to buy time for drafting an alternative.
Republican leaders are assuring senators that the narrow repeal would be merely a vehicle to begin negotiations with House Republicans on a broader compromise to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.
It is unclear if including only some elements of a replacement along with repeal would satisfy the sizable contingent of Republicans who want repeal and replace to happen at the same time.
In tandem with such repeal, Congress should also repeal the McCarran-Ferguson Act of 1945 that has been used in many states to limit access to a competitive market in health insurance.
The new ObamaCare repeal measure from Senate Republicans would give states a way to repeal protections for people with pre-existing conditions, a controversial move that opponents of the bill are denouncing.
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The idea to first repeal and then replace the former president's signature healthcare legislation was previously floated by President Trump, amid lack of support for the Senate GOP's repeal-and-replace bill.
While a literal repeal of the Second Amendment is fortunately a pipe dream at this point in time, leftists don't need repeal in order to make exercising this constitutional right nearly impossible.
ADOPTION ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS The House had proposed to repeal the deduction for financial assistance that an employer may provide when an employee adopts a child, but the final bill has no repeal.
We received several variations on this question: Are Senate Republicans just passing skinny repeal so they can go into negotiations with the House and revive a bigger repeal-and-replace bill there?
Asked whether they'd be more or less likely to support their own member of Congress should they vote to repeal the ACA, 36% said they'd be more likely to back a repeal-supporting member of Congress and 32% less likely, but fully 30% said whether their congressperson voted to repeal wouldn't matter to their 2018 ballot choice.
"So what we're introducing today is consistent with what we told the voters we were going to do and, frankly, what I think they expect us to do, and that is a clean repeal," he said Wednesday on Fox News, referencing an alternative repeal plan from conservatives that calls for a straight repeal of the Affordable Care Act.
Rand PaulRandal (Rand) Howard PaulGraham promises ObamaCare repeal if Trump, Republicans win in 85033 Conservatives buck Trump over worries of 'socialist' drug pricing Rand Paul to 'limit' August activities due to health MORE (R-Ky.), who opposed earlier GOP repeal bills as keeping too much of ObamaCare alive, and two moderates who helped sink the GOP's repeal bill: Sens.
She accused Republicans of pursuing a strategy of "repeal and delay" -- noting that it lacks even the GOP's "repeal and replace" alliteration and saying it "does nothing" and is "an act of cowardice."
The repeal fight has laid clear a truth that Republicans had refused to accept in seven years of promising to repeal Obamacare: The law is, in many ways, fundamentally conservative and market-reliant.
Conservatives in the House Freedom Caucus want to pass a full-blown repeal bill that mirrors a plan that Congress approved in 2015 -- and Obama vetoed -- which would also repeal the Medicaid expansion.
Republicans have vowed to "repeal and replace" the law for six years, but after more than 60 votes to repeal it, they still haven't put forward any workable alternative to replace the law.
Paul said they both want to repeal Obamacare, and the disagreement came over how exactly to replace it -- and whether or not that replacement should be combined with the repeal in one bill.
" While DeParle said she doesn't think repeal is a foregone conclusion, she said that the threat of repeal alone is undermining the health insurance system, with "markets (that) are already feeling very rickety.
FCC Commissioners that voted against the repeal were quick to issue statements urging net neutrality supporters to keep fighting the good fight as numerous efforts at walking back the FCC's repeal take root.
Pai's net neutrality repeal was finalized in June 2018, so even this year's report—with data through 2017—won't reveal if the repeal had any impact unless Pai offers some additional data sources.
The bill would repeal all of the provisions of the Affordable Care Act, but delay repeal by two years, effectively setting a hard deadline for Congress to come up with a new plan.
So they're left with a terrible choice: Vote against Obamacare repeal after campaigning on repeal for seven years, or vote to cover 24 million fewer people and potentially raise premiums for senior citizens.
The rest are divided: One in five say the GOP should both stop trying to repeal Obamacare completely (21%) and the same share say Republicans should keep trying to repeal it anyway (21%).
"The only way to end it is to repeal that statute ... we will repeal Obamacare, but unlike Obama, I don't intend as president to be - to use his word - an emperor," Cruz said.
So when McCain cast a performative last-minute vote against "skinny repeal," it immediately overshadowed the two women Republican senators who did far more to halt Republicans' reckless efforts to repeal Obamacare. Sens.
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A month before, a McClatchy-Marist poll had asked whether the current Congress should repeal the policy and respondents were split, with 47% saying it should repeal and 48% saying Congress should not.
Earlier this year, the EPA sent a new repeal proposal to the White House Office of Management and Budget for review, and the agency won't say why it's trying again to repeal it.
Republicans, who control both chambers of Congress, have said they will quickly repeal Obamacare, but will delay the implementation of the repeal for two to three years as they develop a new plan.
The House ways and means committee was also still deliberating over how to repeal the estate tax -- whether to do it all at once, or wait a few years and repeal it later.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer said in an interview Wednesday that President Trump will keep fighting to repeal ObamaCare, despite the collapse of the Senate GOP's bill to repeal and replace it.
And the week after Pai circulated his plan to repeal the 85033 rules (the day before Thanksgiving), nearly one million people called their members of Congress to voice their objections to the repeal.
With the GOP effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act crashing and the Supreme Court nomination hearings ending last week, the privacy repeal was thrust into the public spotlight this week.
The poll comes nearly a week after Republican efforts to repeal ObamaCare failed in the Senate, with three Republican senators joining all 48 Democrats in voting against a so-called "skinny" repeal bill.
Having a record of who voted for and supported the first real attempt to undo the FCC's repeal provides great fodder for Democrats who can blame net neutrality's repeal squarely on the GOP.
But Mr. Graham still held out the hope that the repeal proposal would pass — just later, after Republicans tackle taxes, and when Republicans can consider the repeal plan in a more deliberative fashion.
Senate Republicans are pushing to pass an Obamacare repeal plan this week despite party divisions and concerns from Murkowski and others that current repeal or replacement options will not adequately fix Obamacare's flaws.
Now, Democrats have every interest in opening that box as repeal efforts barrel forward, and they would need to peel off only a few Senate Republicans to slow the fast-track repeal movement.
They say CBO's previous analyses of GOP ObamaCare repeal bills were inaccurate because CBO overestimated how many people would lose coverage due to the repeal of the health law's mandate to have insurance.
"We strongly disagree with this repeal and are asking senators to vote no on the repeal of the hotel/motel tax," Katherine Bishop, the group's vice president, said in a Facebook message Thursday.
Following the meeting, it wasn't immediately clear whether McConnell would move to a straight repeal of ObamaCare — something the White House had urged earlier in the week — or the repeal-and-replace bill.
During his campaign, Mahathir promised to repeal the law and he delivered on that promise Thursday, when the Malaysian parliament passed the Anti-Fake News (Repeal) Bill 2018, according to state media Bernama.
The party's new drive to repeal Obamacare without implementing an immediate replacement has already shown signs of struggle, after three GOP senators announced that they wouldn't support the repeal without an instant replacement.
Trump's words of encouragement came nearly an hour after Senate Republicans unveiled their so-called skinny repeal bill, which would eliminate ObamaCare's individual mandate permanently and repeal the employer mandate for eight years.
That capped a week of failed Senate votes on whether to simply repeal, or repeal and replace, the 2010 law, while Trump repeatedly berated lawmakers in a late attempt to influence the legislation.
"If we cannot bring the conference together and agree on repeal legislation, then I think President Trump's absolutely right that we should pass a clean repeal," Cruz said, according to The Washington Post.
The conservatives say their repeal now and replace later plan is a way to make sure the GOP keeps its promise to repeal the law before worrying about the harder task of replacement.
The USA Today survey found eight out of 10 Republicans said they supported ObamaCare repeal, and a third said they would support a repeal plan even if a replacement plan was not ready.
The clean repeal proposal would "wipe the health law's coverage expansion off the books without a replacement in 2020," Vox's Sarah Kliff wrote, in what Republicans have named a "repeal and delay" strategy.
House Republicans haven't just failed to repeal Obamacare — their attempts to do so seem to have also caused the law's popularity to skyrocket, making the path to future repeal even tougher to achieve.
Update: The repeal bill passed this afternoon with 70 votes.
Finally, the scope of repeal is causing tension among Republicans.
Dan Forest said in a statement summarizing opposition to repeal.
Repeal pushback is coming from an odd direction -- Republican governors.
Republicans in the state legislature, in turn, would repeal HB2.
First up, the ongoing negotiations to repeal and replace Obamacare.
But they have not sought to fully repeal the program.
Trump and the GOP Congress have pledged to repeal Obamacare.
But that "repeal and delay" strategy drew almost immediate pushback.
Trump during his campaign signaled he would repeal those orders.
Are you surprised how much Republicans are talking about repeal?
Senate Republicans rejected four different Obamacare repeal plans this summer.
But will it stop them from voting for a repeal?
We weren't trying to repeal the 2,700 pages of Obamacare.
Bernie Sanders pledged on Twitter to repeal the Hyde Amendment.
Killing skinny repeal meant all this didn't come to pass.
"We're going to repeal it and replace it," he said.
Trump has already vowed to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
Particularly damning is what today's repeal will mean for marginalized
He voted against the tax bill but for Obamacare repeal.
What he came up with was this: Repeal Obamacare entirely.
Repeal legislation later fell one vote short in the Senate.
Yesterday, the repeal of net neutrality rules went into effect.
We still want to repeal Obamacare, of course, we're Republicans.
Jon Kyl, who says he would support repeal, AP reports.
Lisa Murkowski, who opposed the last repeal effort, and Sen.
Meanwhile, Republicans insist their fight for repeal is not over.
Republicans still have dreams of reviving Obamacare repeal next year.
But Moore's comments suggest he wants more repeal, not less.
Corporate AMT repeal is not part of the Senate version.
A repeal attempt after Trump took office last year failed.
And he voted to repeal the entire Affordable Care Act.
Repeal the authority of Montana's livestock department to slaughter bison.
He urged people to vote "yes" in favor of repeal.
A movement to repeal the bill failed on January 503.
Last November we overwhelmingly rejected a repeal of rent control.
Immigration: Wants to repeal law that criminalizes unauthorized border crossings.
"We're going to repeal it," Scaramucci was quoted as saying.
I strongly support efforts to amend and repeal this bill.
The implications of the FCC's repeal are vast and complicated.
"We can't repeal it and we can't start over," Mrs.
He could make it harder for Republicans to repeal Obamacare.
"Please don't repeal net neutrality," wrote one user called daddys.cummie.
Election Day is a reckoning for Republicans on Obamacare repeal.
The "repeal" bill looks more like the ACA every day.
But they can't repeal rules that directly regulate health insurance.
But would a President Kaine actively fight to repeal Hyde?
No one at airport knows what my repeal jumper means.
Tuesday's failure means the first Obamacare repeal proposal is dead.
You want to repeal and replace it, but with what?
After 21987 years of hearing Repeal & Replace, why not done?
He ran on a platform to repeal and replace Obamacare.
They'll sue to block the FCC repeal in federal court.
Susan Collins — has previously expressed reservations about the FCC's repeal.
You really wanted to see repeal and replace of Obamacare.
Apple and Ireland have said they will repeal the ruling.
They'll lose the House over repeal of Obamacare in 2018.
Pai could also start formal proceedings to repeal the rules.
The repeal efforts appeared to boost public opinion of Obamacare.
The Tea Party wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
If we don't repeal all of it, hey, that's democracy.
For seven years you promised the people you'd repeal Obamacare.
The repeal of Obamacare is standing squarely in the way.
"Tell Congress: Don't repeal without an immediate replacement," it states.
He has said he will repeal Obamacare and replace it.
Will the Republicans will ever stop trying to repeal Obamacare?
He's not confident repeal and replace will fix the issue.
Mike Bishop for his vote to repeal and replace Obamacare.
And now the Senate repeal and replace bill has imploded.
That will come first, not the vote on repeal only.
Individual mandate repeal will boost the ranks of the uninsured.
Republicans campaigned and won on the promise to repeal Obamacare.
Veselnitskaya has also sought the repeal of the Magnitsky Act.
Republicans have been promising for years to repeal the law.
They repeal the Death Tax and the Alternative Minimum Tax.
We are going to work on our repeal legislation immediately.
Republicans are moving forward quickly with plans to repeal ObamaCare.
The proposal to repeal FIRPTA is not a new idea.
Background: The Republicans' tax plan would repeal the individual mandate.
Persistence pays on Obamacare repeal, but with a veto pen!
So far, Trump has signed measures to repeal 13 regulations.
"We want to begin immediately to repeal Obamacare," Alexander said.
He referenced the president's fight to repeal and replace ObamaCare.
Without the filibuster, Republicans could pursue complete repeal and replace.
They are trying to repeal the basic laws of business.
Conservatives have made it clear that their baseline is repeal.
The "skinny repeal" vote ultimately ended close to 2 a.m.
What happens to tax reform if Obamacare repeal doesn't pass?
The pollsters dug into more specific consequences of repeal, too.
"I'm not here to repeal the Second Amendment," she said.
She even fought to repeal it as a national holiday.
But the drive to repeal Obamacare has its own momentum.
John McCain for voting against the GOP's "Obamacare" repeal bill.
Their first should be outright repeal of the Cadillac tax.
Prepare for the eventual repeal or abrogation of the VFA.
GOP's plan to "repeal and replace," his arguments don't improve.
One 2014 poll found that 91% of respondents opposed repeal.
We haven't had that opportunity because it's always just repeal.
But conservatives aren't going to give up on ObamaCare repeal.
Bill supporters say this is because they cannot repeal ObamaCare.
Republicans repeatedly failed last year to repeal and replace ObamaCare.
Numerous Republican proposals would partially or fully repeal the requirement.
I have been told repeatedly that we must "repeal" ObamaCare.
The rub is that we each define "repeal" very differently.
We shouldn't simply misappropriate the meaning of "repeal" any more.
It's exactly how Pai handled the 2017 net neutrality repeal.
What is the blueprint or the pathway forward for repeal?
Thune has repeatedly introduced legislation to repeal the estate tax.
It's high time for Congress to repeal the 1967 law.
On healthcare, we are going to repeal and replace Obamacare.
I will keep working with the President for real repeal.
McCain is voting 'no' on GOP's new repeal bill Sen.
Every California Republican in the House voted to repeal ObamaCare.
The administration previously said it plans to repeal both rules.
The deadline for that repeal bill was also last Saturday.
Senators trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act hope so.
The new proposal does not look to repeal the rule.
So the repeal vote is expected to be widely bipartisan.
City councilman Rafael Espinal of Brooklyn introduced the repeal bill.
The privacy repeal was signed into law by President Trump.
But those repeal efforts have failed without a credible alternative.
Third, Trump says he wants to repeal and replace ObamaCare.
Republicans have infuriated conservative voters for failing to repeal ObamaCare.
But be sure to celebrate its repeal next December 5!
He has called for repeal and replace since day one.
It's time to repeal this monstrosity once and for all.
Democrats in Congress universally oppose repeal of the individual mandate.
Since becoming Speaker, Pelosi has not sought to repeal it.
As the E.P.A. administrator, Pruitt has promised to repeal it.
Let's examine Donald Trump's shifting ObamaCare repeal and replace schedule.
Mr. Trump has pledged to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
It's the same problem that doomed the Obamacare repeal efforts.
David Young (Iowa), who is opposing the ObamaCare repeal bill.
Congressional Republicans won't be voting to repeal ObamaCare anytime soon.
And they promised over and over again to repeal it.
Half of all voters support a partial repeal of Obamacare.
This is all to say, Obamacare repeal is dead now.
Trump and Republicans have pledged to "repeal and replace" Obamacare.
The first scenario examined partial repeal without a replacement plan.
When introducing bill H.R. 494 to repeal the act, Rep.
The deadline: the submission of comments regarding the CPP's repeal.
Those amendments, like Rand Paul's repeal only amendment, failed miserably.
ISPs successfully lobbied Congress to repeal those rules last year.
He voted for ACA repeal and the GOP tax cuts.
Yoder voted for the GOP tax cuts and Obamacare repeal.
He voted for the GOP tax bill and Obamacare repeal.
Paulsen voted for the GOP tax cuts and Obamacare repeal.
He voted for the GOP tax cuts and Obamacare repeal.
Bacon voted for Obamacare repeal and the GOP tax cuts.
He voted for Obamacare repeal and the GOP tax cuts.
Republicans were, obviously, unable to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
But what happens after that repeal is far from clear.
Attempts to reform or repeal the program have been unsuccessful.
Repeal it and the organization has little to stand on.
Hedges insisted Prohibition wasn't a complete failure despite its repeal.
But, Jeff, we all voted for [clean repeal of Obamacare].
We need to repeal DACA [Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals].
Poll of doctors: Only 15% of physicians support Obamacare repeal
" But on whether he supports repeal without a replacement: "No.
Here's why: Skinny repeal isn't really that skinny at all.
In short, it's not a straight repeal of the law.
In July, the board voted to repeal those fees permanently.
Once finalized, regulations are often difficult to modify or repeal.
Trump promised on the campaign trail to repeal the regulation.
On ObamaCare repeal, the ball is now in their court.
Just the other day Senator Mitch McConnell endorsed repeal (again).
Other opponents began efforts to repeal the ban in Congress.
Plus the corporate tax cuts and the estate tax repeal.
It turns out the real repeal and replace ... was love.
President Donald Trump campaigned on a promise to repeal Obamacare.
It helped kill Obamacare repeal repeatedly over the past year.
The Senate is taking up the House's Obamacare repeal bill.
Six weeks later, the House passed their Obamacare repeal bill.
The GOP's fourth attempt to repeal and replace Obamacare died.
The repeal could take effect in just a few weeks.
The industry made repeal of the regulation a top priority.
A final repeal of the rule would come after that.
It hopes to repeal it when parliament reconvenes this month.
Some Republican senators therefore refuse to repeal the regulations nationwide.
The bill is the most disruptive repeal plan to date.
Colorado became the 22nd state to repeal the death penalty.
Still, the current bill would only repeal parts of Obamacare.
They have a president who can sign a repeal bill.
Republicans had hoped the same could happen with Obamacare repeal.
He was horrible — what he did with repeal and replace.
Skinny repeal would, somewhat surprisingly, keep the Medicaid program safe.
They were skiing when his first Obamacare repeal push floundered.
The repeal of the ACA may intensify that need further.
Repeal would mean that abortion becomes legal throughout the country.
She finally decided to vote "yes," in favor of repeal.
"Who's ready to repeal and replace Barbara Comstock?" she shouted.
But the repeal effort failed, and the tax will remain.
President Trump has said he continues to back repeal efforts.
Texas turns on Congress's decision to repeal Obamacare's individual mandate.
The E.P.A. declined to answer questions about the repeal process.
Unsure, but "would work to repeal" the amendment No answer.
"It's not that they're not interested in repeal," she said.
The notion that repeal would be simple is a fantasy.
Rules that would repeal existing regulations would also be exempt.
No text of a skinny repeal bill has been released.
Murkowski and Collins also voted against that "skinny" repeal bill.
Progressives have introduced a bill to repeal the 2010 law.
Additionally, the bill did not repeal any of ObamaCare's taxes.
Repeal of all three taxes is also not paid for.
Repeal Obamacare Obamacare should be the easiest of the three.
Obamacare repeal and replace is not merely a political goal.
Lawmakers began their quest to repeal the law on Wednesday.
Several Republican senators have expressed concerns about the repeal plan.
The ESSA repeal effort shows that center no longer holds.
Many banks have hoped that Congress will repeal the system.
We have to know that this repeal bill is dead.
So maybe the "skinny repeal" could become law after all?
Bahrain's Parliament voted last year to repeal a similar law.
The company also was seeking repeal of net neutrality regulations.
The Senate's effort to repeal Obamacare is in serious trouble.
Lisa Murkowski's vote for the latest Obamacare repeal bill. Sens.
Republicans have to pass an Obamacare repeal bill before Sept.
"Only in Washington does repeal translate to restore," he said.
Plans to repeal it were moving forward, no firearms necessary.
"I've always been a yes for repeal," he told NBC.
A full repeal of Obamacare would also worsen the deficit.
McCain's no vote tanked the ObamaCare repeal effort in July.
After Trump pitched separating repeal and replacement on Friday, Sen.
But the FCC's prospective repeal would have the opposite effects.
The bill would repeal that itemized deduction, effective in 2018.
Read more here   Key senator backs 'skinny' ObamaCare repeal Sen.
MORE (Ariz.) joined together to kill the "skinny" repeal legislation.
It is my view that Congress should repeal the BCA.
And even those vulnerable Republicans who opposed repeal, including Reps.
The House voted overwhelmingly to repeal the tax this year.
First, finally repeal ObamaCare and reform the health care system.
The House narrowly approved its version of repeal last month.
Voting for repeal without a decent alternative would be inhumane.
Number 13: Repeal Obamacare WILL NOT borrow money off dadN.
Republicans can't find the votes to repeal or replace it.
That's basically the wall Obamacare repeal has just smashed into.
The corporate tax changes and individual mandate repeal are permanent.
For eight years, Republicans in Congress promised to repeal ObamaCare.
Repeal and replace, which we know needs to be done.
The bill would repeal that itemized deduction, effective in 2023.
The Republican push to repeal ObamaCare is officially on ice.
But Ryan got legislation to repeal ObamaCare through the House.
Mandate repeal is a top priority for House conservatives. Rep.
The last dissenting GOP lawmaker on the "skinny repeal," Sen.
Trump mockingly mimics John McCain's vote against ACA repeal pic.twitter.
The repeal was supported by Republicans but opposed by Democrats.
So we're gonna do repeal and replace, very complicated stuff.
The vote for a partial, "skinny" repeal may follow that.
A House committee unexpectedly voted to repeal the 2001 AUMF.
ObamaCare repeal was defeated in the Senate by Arizona Sen.
That bill, called a "skinny repeal," was an acknowledged sham.
That opens the door to letting Democrats filibuster repeal efforts.
Critics called the partial repeal "insidious discrimination" in another form.
Criticisms intensified after the party's failed effort to repeal Obamacare.
Tom MacArthur might have singlehandedly saved the Obamacare repeal effort.
It's too early to declare the repeal of Obamacare dead.
The failed sprint to pass another repeal plan by Sens.
Republican efforts toward a widespread repeal of Obamacare collapsed again.
Conservatives are reconciling themselves to a world without Obamacare repeal.
" And to do that, "you must repeal and replace Obamacare.
Your amendment to repeal Hyde was rejected earlier this month.
This is Senate Republicans' first attempt at a repeal bill.
Democrats are hoping for a similar story over Obamacare repeal.
That doesn't mean the Obamacare repeal effort is dead forever.
Never say never, but the repeal bubble has popped again.
The House bill did not repeal the Obamacare individual mandate.
Getting one Obamacare repeal bill through the House was tough.
I followed her closely myself during the Obamacare repeal debate.
Rand Paul, the Republican most bent on full Obamacare repeal.
The easy part is the repeal of the payroll taxes.
Trump has also said he wants to repeal Roe v.
But for Republicans, repeal and delay makes the consequences worse.
I've used the term skinny repeal in my own reporting.
That repeal would trigger a domino effect, the CBO found.
John Faso of New York said defunding Planned Parenthood in a repeal bill would mean "walking into a gigantic political trap" that could end up with "millions of people on social media" protesting repeal.
In the past few years, the House has voted more than 60 times to repeal or alter Obamacare but Republicans had no hope a repeal would become law as long as Obama was president.
These conservatives were among first to insist that repeal and replace happen simultaneously, the aides said, but are now endorsing a repeal bill from 2015 that would not replace Obamacare at the same time.
By summer of 2017 it became clear that Republicans could not agree on a single repeal-and-replace bill, so they tried to forge ahead on a repeal-and-figure-it-out-later plan.
Trump appeared on stage as the latest Republican effort to repeal Obamacare looked to be faltering after Republican Senator John McCain announced his opposition to a measure to repeal and replace the healthcare law.
Under the GOP's "repeal and delay" plan, however, they would pass a bill scrapping the ACA, then put off the effects of the repeal until they figured out their own health insurance reform plan.
Health insurers told Republicans in a letter that they are not entirely supportive of so-called "skinny repeal," the plan that would get rid of the individual mandate and partially repeal the employer mandate.
Unlike issues such as healthcare where the GOP recognized it needed to replace, and not just repeal, President Obama's accomplishments, Republicans aren't focused on replacing Obama's climate regulations — repeal remains the focus for now.
The House Obamacare repeal and replacement bill failed to advance to a vote in the House on Friday afternoon, a stunning defeat for a party that campaigned on repeal for the last seven years.
Trump, the GOP presidential nominee, included a repeal of the estate tax in the tax plan he released last year, and he reiterated his support of repeal in an economic speech Monday in Detroit.
But some Democrats and LGBT rights groups have assailed the compromise as a repeal in name only, noting that it is not a full repeal and blocks governments from enacting similar ordinances until 2020.
He said the Senate would vote in the coming days on a bill that would delay the repeal of Obamacare for two years -- all as Trump called for a wholesale repeal of the law.
Dems: Don't repeal offshore tax rules: Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee are urging their colleagues to oppose a resolution that would repeal Obama administration rules aimed at curbing offshore tax deals.
Alexander also said that while Republicans will move quickly to repeal Obamacare, the repeal probably would not take effect for two or three years, during which time lawmakers can work on a replacement plan.
Repeal, round 2: House Republicans just can't stop trying to fuck with people's health care and are set to vote today on the GOP American Health Care Act bill, which would effectively repeal Obamacare.
That's when the EPA plans to finalize its Clean Power Plan repeal, its Clean Water Rule repeal and its American Clean Energy rule, the replacement for the Clean Power Plan, according to the agenda.
When Trump wanted to repeal and replace ObamaCare, study after study indicated that the majority of the negative impacts of that repeal would be for people in the counties that Trump won in 85033.
Net neutrality supporters are fighting back on multiple fronts, including a last-ditch effort to overturn the repeal through Congress and a multi-state lawsuit against the FCC itself seeking to block the repeal.
Fishpaw said other details are still being worked out, like how many of ObamaCare's regulations to repeal, and whether to repeal the rules preventing people with pre-existing conditions from being charged higher premiums.
GOP leadership reportedly assured the senators that the January 27 deadline for repeal legislation is a placeholder and that the party will be prioritizing replacement plans and interim steps to prevent chaos after repeal.
She was one of three GOP senators who voted to sink a GOP repeal bill in July, and the Trump administration sought to put pressure on her to vote for the latest repeal bill.
The repeal bill, which the government says will help achieve a smooth transition as Britain leaves the EU, will transpose EU law and repeal the 1972 European Communities Act which formalizes Britain's EU membership.
The call is a sign that Trump is still pushing forward on the repeal effort, despite indications that a repeal-only measure the Senate will vote on next week lacks the support to advance.
And as Senate Republicans pondered repeal of the law, they ultimately ended up finding that there was more legislative support for a "skinny" repeal bill that would wreck the marketplaces and leave Medicaid intact.
"[Skinny repeal] is not a very good solution — it's a solution if it keeps the process going so we can set up a more complete repeal and replace in the House-Senate conference," Sen.
He increased pressure on Senator Lisa Murkowski, Republican of Alaska, to cast what could be a deciding vote to kill the repeal effort, just as she voted against the last repeal bill in July.
Members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus said after a meeting at Tortilla Coast that they want more repeal details on repeal and replacement before voting on the guidelines for rolling back the law.
They will shout "repeal, repeal" and cause such confusion that some insurance companies will drop out, premiums will rise and patients will be so uncertain about their options that they will not sign up.
The rule will apply to new transactions beginning next March, but House Republicans have already voted to repeal it and the Senate could take up its own repeal measure as early as next week.
The bill, to repeal and replace major provisions of the Affordable Care Act, is a top priority for President Trump and Republicans in the House, which passed its own repeal bill in early May.
While Congress has used the Congressional Review Act more than a dozen times since 28503 to repeal formal rules issued under former President Obama, it has never before used the law to repeal guidance.
But as conservatives in the House and Senate did their best to find a path forward on ObamaCare repeal, we learned this was never really about repeal; it was only a rebranding of ObamaCare.
The political party's new drive to repeal Obamacare without implementing an immediate replacement has already shown signs of struggle, after three GOP senators announced that they wouldn't support the repeal without an instant replacement.
Nonetheless, Speaker Paul D. Ryan vowed to renew efforts to repeal the law, despite last week's crushing setback when House Republicans tossed aside a repeal bill because they lacked the votes to pass it.
The groups largely have been shut out of the process, and their opposition didn't stop the Senate from voting on a repeal bill in July or the House passing its repeal bill in May.
Here's what you need to know about EPA move to repeal the rule:  The proposal is the first formal step EPA has taken toward fulfilling President Trump's campaign promise to repeal the 2628 regulation.
And even if repeal fails today and the Trump administration decides to break off talks, the issue will remain alive in the Senate, and any progress toward repeal there would surely revive Senate interest.
But Senate leaders are turning to narrow repeal now only because their grander ambitions are falling short and they are anxious to pass any bill that they can sell as Obamacare repeal through the Senate.
The federal judge hearing the first legal challenge to President Trump's repeal of DACA harshly criticized the repeal and is pushing the administration to extend an October deadline for Dreamers to reapply for the program.
But luckily for him, the president has a tremendous amount of leeway on immigration enforcement; he didn't need Congress to repeal Obama-administration memos on deportation priorities the way he needed them to repeal Obamacare.
The Repeal Bill, which the government says will help achieve a smooth transition as Britain leaves the EU, will transpose EU law and also repeal the 1972 European Communities Act which formalizes Britain's EU membership.
Obamacare Repeal Efforts Stall Earlier in the week, the Senate opened debate on healthcare legislation, but Republicans failed to pass a bill replacing Obamacare, one simply repealing much of it, and a "skinny repeal" bill.
I kept hearing informed voters, who had watched the election closely, say they did hear the promise of repeal but simply felt Trump couldn't repeal a law that had done so much good for them.
Trump told the New York Times Tuesday that he wants the repeal and replacement of Obamacare to be "simultaneous," a very different approach than the repeal-and-delay strategy that congressional Republicans have focused on.
A poll released in February by the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California found essentially an even split on the repeal effort – with 47 percent of likely voters supporting repeal and 48 percent in opposition.
Here's what's now in it: Individual mandate repeal Partial repeal of the employer mandate A one-year defunding of Planned Parenthood More money for community health centers A provision addressing the ACA's 1332 innovation waivers.
The Senate has voted down a bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act without replacing it — the leading alternative to the Senate repeal-and-replace bill, a version of which got shot down last night.
" In the group's television and web ads, titled "Repeal Now," the House Republicans who supported the GOP's healthcare bill are touted for "taking on Nancy Pelosi" and "standing with President Trump to repeal ObamaCare now.
Trump's commitment to the plan from the House GOP leadership comes as it faces opposition from conservative lawmakers, who have called for a straight repeal of ObamaCare instead of tying repeal to a replacement plan.
Trump's latest visit to his Virginia property comes days after House Republicans pulled their bill to repeal and replace ObamaCare, in a blow to Trump, who promised during his campaign to repeal the healthcare law.
Repeal of the tax was included in the White House's April plan But Democrats criticized Republicans when they were considering eliminating the tax as part of ObamaCare repeal, and the health care measure from Sens.
After the collapse of wholesale Obamacare repeal this summer, the GOP's "skinny repeal" and tax plans each offered one more chance to tear out the heart of Obamacare, as Trump now believes he has done.
House GOP whip: Entitlement reform, ObamaCare repeal on 6900 agenda ObamaCare repeal and entitlement reform are at the top of the agenda for House Republicans in 2628, Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) said Tuesday.
The future of the legislation is even more uncertain now that the Senate's tax bill includes a repeal of the individual mandate, which would repeal the penalty individuals pay if they don't have health insurance.
While lawmakers are expected to repeal ObamaCare at some point through the budget reconciliation process, Republicans worried at their congressional retreat last week that a rushed repeal would hurt the party in the 2018 elections.
Freedom Caucus members have been pushing for a straight repeal of the healthcare law since efforts to repeal and replace it at the same time came to a halt in the Senate this week. Rep.
The Republicans have been trying to kill it for years: In 2011, they first voted to repeal it because of "wasteful, unaccountable spending," and it has been a mainstay of Obamacare repeal efforts ever since.
It broke my heart to see these people and others who desperately need health care demonstrating in the capital last year against repeal of the Affordable Care Act and some legislators voting for repeal anyway.
GOP leadership could ultimately try to pass a "skinny repeal," which would include a repeal of the individual and employer mandate and the medical device tax, if broader proposals aren't able to garner enough support.
GOP leadership could ultimately try to pass a "skinny repeal," which would include a repeal of the individual and employer mandates and the medical device tax, if broader proposals aren't able to garner enough support.
A second lawmaker confirmed that Trump pressed McConnell to insist on a vote on the Senate repeal-and-replace bill, not just the motion to proceed to the House bill and the repeal-only bill.
The Senate GOP's effort to repeal and replace ObamaCare appeared to die Thursday night after the three Republicans defected and joined with Democrats to defeat the the Senate's "skinny" repeal of the Affordable Care Act.
Throughout all the ObamaCare repeal attempts, from the skinny repeal to Graham-Cassidy bill to the elimination of cost share reductions, Republicans have tried so hard in so many ways to make America sick again.
An explainer: When the Senate voted 51-50 to begin debating the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, technically senators were bringing the repeal bill that was passed in the House to the Senate floor.
Is McConnell hoping his senators (nearly all of whom supported this repeal-only bill in 2015) will now put their qualms aside and decide to open debate anyway rather than kill Obamacare repeal for good?
Among the Democrats' arguments are that the legality of the rule has not been settled, an executive order cannot repeal a regulation and Trump ought to consult with stakeholders about the impact of repeal first.
There's apparently a "secret" GOP bill to repeal Obamacare — and Rand Paul is determined to find it There's apparently a "secret" GOP bill to repeal Obamacare — and Rand Paul is determined to find it Sen.
This tactic isn't going to hold up Senate repeal efforts forever, but it is going to attempt to draw more attention to the Republican repeal efforts that have so far proceeded largely behind closed doors.
In fact, nine Republican senators voted against the House repeal bill.
That's in addition to everyone who'd lose coverage through ACA repeal.
His party hasn't been able to repeal Obamacare after multiple attempts.
But Republicans are already facing challenges, even in the repeal process.
McCain still wants to repeal Obamacare, remember, just not this way.
John McCain's vote against the so-called "skinny repeal" of Obamacare.
One of Vox's campaign promises is to repeal the 2007 law.
"If they repeal it, they're going to own it," he said.
I have for years said we have to repeal and replace.
For more on House Republicans' Obamacare repeal bill, read Vox's explainer.
Trump is expected to make the repeal of Obamacare a priority.
Congressional Republicans have been trying to repeal the law for years.
Repeal of the individual mandate penalty would be retroactive to Dec.
Republicans apparently couldn't reach an agreement on how to repeal HB2.
Carl Ford, a Republican, said before voting no on the repeal.
Republicans decided that would be Obamacare repeal, for a few reasons.
A series of votes to repeal the law starts this morning.
Obamacare repeal is more or less dead and NATO is alive.
Eventually, Heller and Capito did vote to repeal the individual mandate.
They have initiative on the ballot, but you can repeal that.
Having failed to repeal Obamacare, they yearned for a legislative victory.
The campaign makes almost no mention of the repeal of Obamacare.
The trouble is that most of them are hard to repeal.
It's not good enough just to repeal Obamacare, the thinking goes.
WHAT ELSE IS NEW ON DAY 14... OBAMACARE Repair, repeal, replace?
Dennis Daugaard, a Republican, signed the repeal bill on Thursday night.
Chairman Pai's proposal to repeal Title II regulations will ensure the
A group of 22 states sued the FCC over the repeal.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican, backs the FCC repeal.
The so-called "skinny repeal" bill that the late Republican Sen.
If Donald Trump wins, he could repeal the Affordable Care Act.
Would they settle for this bill that is essentially partial repeal?
Jeff Flake introduced a resolution on Tuesday to repeal the rules.
Voters will be asked to consider a repeal of Article 40.3.
The odds of Republicans reviving their repeal bill were already low.
The FCC's repeal of those rules went into effect in 2018.
Then, in March, Senate Democrats introduced a resolution against the repeal.
The repeal of the religious exemption was progressing in the legislature.
But the "skinny repeal" bill is not expected to touch Medicaid.
I really don't know what to do if they repeal ACA.
It runs through the current movement to repeal the 14th Amendment.
Some have blamed the law's partial repeal for the financial crisis.
Republicans are still trying to figure out how to repeal Obamacare.
That failed repeal effort was funded largely by big business groups.
Let's start with Trump's desire to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
The Federal Communications Commission has voted to repeal net neutrality rules.
Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, a doctor, voted in favor of repeal.
Sanders pledged at the time he would act to repeal it.
Meanwhile, the clock is running out for Republicans on Obamacare repeal.
Support for Obamacare repeal did not decline as millions gained coverage.
And he also restated his pledge to repeal and replace Obamacare.
Another welcome Trump proposal is the repeal of the estate tax.

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