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Paige Winfield Cunningham / Washington Post:
Senate health-care draft repeals Obamacare taxes, provides bigger subsidies for low-income Americans than House bill — Senate leaders on Wednesday were putting the final touches on legislation that would reshape a big piece of the U.S. health-care system by dramatically rolling back Medicaid …
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Jordan Weissmann / Slate:
How Mitch McConnell weaponized our short attention span. — Mitch McConnell is winning, yet again. — Senate Republicans are reportedly close to voting on a bill that would repeal Obamacare and potentially strip insurance from millions of Americans. Under normal circumstances …
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Rand Paul calls to slow down ‘rushed’ ObamaCare repeal process
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Politico, New York Magazine and Politicus USA
Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
What's in the Senate's secret Obamacare repeal bill
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Ted Cruz, Key Conservative Negotiator: I Have No Idea What's In The Senate Health-Care Bill
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Laura Litvan / Bloomberg:
GOP Health Bill Kept Secret From Senators Assigned to Write It
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CNN:
Intel chiefs tell investigators Trump suggested they refute collusion with Russians — Coats and Rogers said interactions with Trump about the Russia investigation were odd, uncomfortable — (CNN)Two of the nation's top intelligence officials told Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team …
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Turns an Iowa Rally Into a Venting Session — CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — President Trump said on Wednesday that he was crafting legislation to bar new immigrants from receiving welfare for at least five years. He announced the proposal in a conquering-hero-returns speech in Iowa …
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The Gazette:
An open letter to President Donald Trump upon his return to Cedar Rapids — Welcome to Cedar Rapids, Mr. President. — The last time you visited us, you were a candidate for the presidency. Now, you're the commander in chief. And you'll no doubt be happy to know interviews …
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CBS News:
“All we do is win, win, win,” says Trump at campaign-style rally in Iowa — As if the 2016 campaign had never ended, a pugnacious President Trump delivered a free-wheeling speech at a rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Wednesdaynight, where he bashed Obamacare, Democrats, and the media …
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Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: Senate's unhealthy start on health care — WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY — Time to show their work: Senate Republicans share their health care draft this morning after negotiating it behind closed doors. The bill is expected to roll back Medicaid expansions but more gradually …
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CNN:
Some House Democrats says it's time for Pelosi to go — (CNN)A small group of House Democrats are publicly saying it's time for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to step aside as the face of the party ahead of the 2018 midterms following Tuesday night's disappointing loss in a special election for a Georgia House seat.
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Pelosi faces growing doubts among Dems after Georgia loss
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Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Nancy Pelosi Faces Heat From Democrats After Georgia Loss
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Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Trumps suggests creating law that has been enacted since 1996 — President Trump in a rally on Wednesday evening said immigrants who enter the United States should not be eligible for welfare benefits for five years, though such a law has already existed for 20 years.
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Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:
FBI Fired Sebastian Gorka for Anti-Muslim Diatribes … The inflammatory pundit Sebastian Gorka worked for the FBI while he was a paid consultant to Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, lecturing bureau employees on counterterrorism issues. — Until the FBI terminated Gorka for his over-the-top Islamophobic rhetoric.
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Philip Wegmann / Washington Examiner:
Jon Ossoff spent six times more than Karen Handel but complains about ‘money in politics’ — Down south in Georgia last night, a woman overcame the odds to win a seat in Congress and prove that money can't always buy elections. Unfortunately for Democrats, that underdog named Karen Handel is a Republican.
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Molly Ball / The Atlantic:
Why Ossoff Lost — ATLANTA—Around midnight, hours …
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Charlie Mahtesian / Politico:
The GOP's Suburban Nightmare — Surveying the Democratic wreckage after a disastrous 1952 campaign, Robert Taft, the typically taciturn Ohio Republican senator, made a bold prediction about the opposition. “The Democratic Party,” the one-time Senate majority leader asserted …
Carrie Levine / Center for Public Integrity:
Trump appointee is a Saudi government lobbyist — Richard Hohlt earning six figures from kingdom bent on influencing Trump — President Donald Trump talks with Saudi King Salman as they pose for photos with leaders at the Arab Islamic American Summit, at the King Abdulaziz Conference Center …
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Laura Beth Nielsen / Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed The case for restricting hate speech — Members of the Westboro Baptist Church picket in front of the Supreme Court in Washington on Oct. 6, 2010. (Carolyn Kaster / Associated Press) — As a sociologist and legal scholar, I struggle to explain the boundaries of free speech to undergraduates.
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Ariana Eunjung Cha / Washington Post:
Not quite half of American teens have had sex by 18. That's actually low. — American teens may be becoming more conservative about sex. — According to a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report reflecting data from 2011 to 2015, about 42 percent of girls and about 44 percent …
New York Times:
White House Tries to Get G.O.P. to Water Down Russia Sanctions Bill — WASHINGTON — The White House is quietly lobbying House Republicans to weaken a bill overwhelmingly passed by the Senate last week that would slap tough new sanctions on Russia for its meddling in the 2016 election …
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Judiciary Committee to continue Russia probe after Mueller meeting — Top members of the Judiciary Committee indicated Wednesday that they will move forward with their own investigation into Russia's election meddling, after meeting with special counsel Robert Mueller.
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Caleb Ecarma / Mediaite:
EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Tom Cotton Intern Calls British ‘Faggots’ and Paul Ryan a ‘Cuck’ in Audio Recording — GOP Senator Tom Cotton's intern is not shy about spouting off incendiary comments, as the young Republican calls Speaker Paul Ryan “a cuck” and the British “faggots.”
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Nicole Brockbank / CBC News:
Woman demanding white doctor ‘not an isolated incident,’ says OMA's president-elect — ‘When someone accuses you that way or treats you that way you feel like an alien,’ says Dr. Nadia Alam — A woman who demanded that a “white doctor” treat her son at a walk-in clinic in Mississauga …
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Priebus keeps tight grip on the RNC — President Donald Trump's embattled chief of staff, Reince Priebus, has been keeping an unusually tight grip on the Republican National Committee even while internal turmoil and a stalled legislative agenda have left his full-time job in peril.
Kathryn Blackhurst / LifeZette:
Spicer: Publicity-Hungry Reporters Want to ‘Become YouTube Stars’ — White House press secretary defends use of off-camera briefings to prioritize ‘substantive discussions’ — White House press secretary Sean Spicer pushed back on reporters' complaints that on-camera news briefings have been limited …
Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
White House shows no sign of reopening Paris talks — Three weeks after President Donald Trump pledged to pull the United States out of the Paris climate agreement and negotiate a better deal, foreign allies and U.S. officials alike remain perplexed about the White House's plans going forward.
John Kass / Chicago Tribune:
Column: What to do with a broken Illinois: Dissolve the Land of Lincoln — Illinois is like Venezuela now, a fiscally broken state that has lost its will to live, although for the moment, we still have enough toilet paper. — But before we run out of the essentials, let's finally admit …
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