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Senate heads for ‘nuclear option’ over Gorsuch nomination. What is it, and why does it matter?

August 21, 2019 at 10:46 p.m.

One of Senate's most serious jobs – confirming the president's choice for a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court – has devolved into a game of political chicken. Senators are...

House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), left, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) at the White House.

Obamacare overhaul faces resistance in Congress from right and left

August 21, 2019 at 10:28 p.m.

House GOP leadership faced mounting opposition Tuesday after introducing an Obamacare repeal and replace bill that was rejected by small government conservatives, panned by Republican moderates and given only lukewarm...

House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), left, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) are promising swift legislative action over the next month to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

Facing big political hurdles, House Republicans ready an ambitious legislative push to repeal Obamacare

August 21, 2019 at 10:26 p.m.

House Republicans, despite stiff political headwinds, are readying an ambitious push this week to begin moving legislation to replace major parts of the Affordable Care Act, a crucial test of...

President Trump and House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.).

With Trump in the limelight, Republicans rush to repeal Obama’s work

August 21, 2019 at 10:10 p.m.

While President Trump's daily activities continue to consume much of the nation's attention, Congress has quietly launched a legislating spree at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue. The House and...

President Barack Obama signs the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as "Obamacare," in the East Room of the White House in Washington onMarch 23, 2010.

Obama envisioned a bipartisan government. Instead, he got deepening partisan rancor.

August 21, 2019 at 9:43 p.m.

He first achieved national renown with a speech hailing bipartisanship, and spent much of his presidency singing the praises of cooperation across party lines. But nearly all of his major...

President-elect Donald Trump, accompanied by his family, arrives at a news conference in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York on Jan. 11, 2017.

Trump’s boldest campaign promises are getting a reality check

August 21, 2019 at 9:41 p.m.

During his campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly promised voters a "big, beautiful wall," an Obamacare replacement "immediately" and a new era for a Veterans Affairs agency that had "failed" service members....

Vice President-elect Mike Pence met Thursday at the Capitol with Republican lawmakers, rallying them around the goal of repealing Obamacare.

Republicans offer no plan to repeal Obamacare as more party members express concern

August 21, 2019 at 9:34 p.m.

After demanding for six years that the Affordable Care Act be gutted, Republican leaders refused Wednesday to outline concrete steps to repeal and replace it, even as members of their...

Democrats look to make deals with Trump — and divide the GOP in the process

June 20, 2019 at 5:06 a.m.

Republicans became known as the "party of no" during the Obama years because of their frequent efforts to block the president's initiatives. As congressional Democrats prepare to deal with a...

Donald Trump on election night in New York.

Now Trump has his chance to change Washington. But it might change him instead

August 21, 2019 at 8:52 p.m.

On Wednesday morning, Washington awoke to a question that few, even in Republican circles, had spent much time thinking about in the past several months: What will a Donald Trump...

Eddie Creech, a tobacco, corn and bean farmer, attends a Donald Trump rally in Kinston, N.C.

Donald Trump built a political movement. Now what?

August 21, 2019 at 8:47 p.m.

Donald Trump has whipped up a political movement like none other in modern politics, but there's a surprising ambivalence from his army of supporters — and even the candidate himself...

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