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Lauren Fox / Talking Points Memo:
A lead Republican in the fight to repeal Obamacare said Monday night that he wanted to work in a step by step manner to repeal Obamcare once a replacement was “available to the American people ” — Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) is the chairman of the Senate's HELP Committee and has been a leading voice …
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Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
5 GOP Senators Propose Delay On O'Care Repeal To Work Out Replacement — After publicly airing some of their grievances with the GOP's current strategy of repealing Obamacare without a replacement plan, a handful of Republican senators put their concerns in legislative writing.
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Bloomberg:
Breakaway Senate Republicans Push to Delay Obamacare Repeal — More support for ‘repeal and replace’ to happen simultaneously — Republicans increasingly open to delaying repeal of tax hikes — A breakaway group of five moderate Senate Republicans pushed Monday to delay …
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
GOP leaders vow to plow ahead with Obamacare repeal — House and Senate Republican leaders are forging ahead with plans to repeal Obamacare then replace it later — dismissing mounting pressure from their own party to delay the repeal vote until they have a fully formed alternative.
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Sarah Kliff / Vox:
Today in Obamacare: I used to think Obamacare repeal was for sure. 2 things changed my mind.
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Tom Hamburger / Washington Post:
Sessions failed to disclose oil interests as required, ethics experts say — Attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions did not disclose his ownership of oil interests on land in Alabama as required by federal ethics rules, according to an examination of state records and independent ethics lawyers who reviewed the documents.
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First on CNN: Condoleezza Rice endorses Sessions for attorney general
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The Guardian:
We were ethics lawyers for Bush and Obama. Trump's cabinet hearings must be delayed
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Kenneth Lipp / The Daily Beast:
Jeff Sessions Wanted to ‘Drop the Case’ Against KKK Lynching, Attorney Testified
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Grace Watkins / Politico:
Trump Pick Monica Crowley Plagiarized Parts of Her Ph.D. Dissertation — Monica Crowley, President-Elect Donald J. Trump's pick for a top National Security Council job, plagiarized numerous passages in her Ph.D. dissertation, Politico Magazine has found. — An examination of the dissertation …
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Alyssa Rosenberg / Washington Post:
The Trump team's embarrassing defense of fraudulence — President-elect Donald Trump's ability to inhabit his own private, convenient reality is a firmly established part of his style right now. And one of the many insidious things about his coming presidency is his attempt to force the rest …
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New York Times:
Obama Watchdog in Congress Has New Target in Trump Era: Postal Reform — An Obama watchdog has changed his tune now that a Republican will be in the White House. — President-elect Donald J. Trump, after an intelligence report concluded that Russia tried to help him get elected, is going after ... Meryl Streep.
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Diana Pearl / People.com:
D.C. Dress Shops Dispute Trump's Claim That They Are ‘Sold-Out’ for Inauguration: 'There's Never Been Less Demand'
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Farah Stockman / New York Times:
Women's March on Washington Opens Contentious Dialogues About Race — Many thousands of women are expected to converge on the nation's capital for the Women's March on Washington the day after Donald J. Trump's inauguration. Jennifer Willis no longer plans to be one of them.
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Emma Brown / Washington Post:
Senate postpones confirmation hearing for Betsy DeVos, Trump's education pick — The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions has postponed the confirmation hearing for Betsy DeVos, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for education secretary.
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Benjamin Wermund / Politico:
DeVos' donations spark questions about her stance on campus sexual assault
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Elana Schor / Politico:
Trump Cabinet picks' ethics disclosures lag behind Obama's
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Emma Brown / Washington Post:
Teachers unions mount campaign against Betsy DeVos, Trump's education pick
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Ryan Mac / Forbes:
A Troll Outside Trump Tower Is Helping To Pick Your Next Government — An internet troll, who was once called “the most hated man on the internet” and is banned from Twitter, is recommending candidates to serve in the Trump administration. — Charles “Chuck” Johnson …
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Liam Quinn / Daily Mail:
Shocked waitress is left a racist note by white couple who 'don't tip black people' even after they admitted she gave them ‘great service’ — A waitress who served a white couple at a Virginia restaurant was left a racist message instead of a tip. — The waitress, Kelly Carter …
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
White House defends Meryl Streep's anti-Trump speech — President Obama's top spokesman on Monday defended actress Meryl Streep's Golden Globes speech that criticized President-elect Donald Trump — “She clearly was delivering a thoughtful, carefully considered message that she believes in deeply …
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Ashley Feinberg / Gizmodo:
Trump Just Dismissed the People in Charge of Maintaining Our Nuclear Arsenal — Between the Trump transition team's infighting, incompetence, and high-profile resignations, any decisions that signaled even a modicum of stability for the country would come as a relief at this point.
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Jennifer Calfas / The Hill:
Sanders: ‘Much too early’ to say if I'll run for president again — (I-Vt.) said it is “much too early” for him to consider a 2020 presidential run. — “It is much too early to talk about that,” Sanders said during a CNN town hall Monday night. — Sanders, who will be 79 years old in 2020 …
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Oren Dorell / USA Today:
ExxonMobil and Iran did business under Secretary of State nominee Tillerson — The transactions included $53.2 million in sales to Iran over three years. — ExxonMobil did business with Iran, Syria and Sudan through a European subsidiary while President-elect Donald Trump's nominee …
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