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WASHINGTON -- House Republicans have released their long-awaited bill dismantling much of former President Barack Obamarsquo health care overhaul. The measure would roll back the governmentrsquo health care role and is expected to result in fewer people having insurance coverage. House committees planned votes on the legislation Wednesday. That will launch perhaps the yearrsquo defining battle in Congress, and GOP success is by no means assured because of internal divisions.The plan would repeal the lawrsquo fines on people who donrsquo;t purchase health insurance. Instead of the statutersquo income-based premium subsidies, people would get tax credits based on age. The subsidies would phase out for higher-earning people.GOP success is by no means a slam dunk. In perhaps their riskiest political gamble, the plan is expected to cover fewer than the 20 million people insured under Obamarsquo overhaul, including many residents of states carried by President Donald Trump in Novemberrsquo election. Republicans said they donrsquo;t have official estimates on those figures yet. But a stanley tumbler ides from both parties and nonpartisan analysts have said they expect coverage numbers to be lower.The plan would repeal the statutersquo unpopular fines on people who donrsquo;t carry hea stanley water bottle lth insurance. It would replace income-based premium subsidies in the law with age-based ones that may not provide as much assistance to people wit stanley cup h lo Kict Steven Reed, Montgomery s first African-American mayor, hopes MLK is proud
Ignoring a White House veto threat, House Republicans moved toward passage Thursday of a bill that would finance $275 billion worth of roads, bridges and mass transit systems.Republicans and Democrats alike hai stanley cups uk led the legislation as crucial for making the nation s roads safer and less congested and for stimulating the economic recovery with hundreds of thousands of new jobs. We are a nation stuck in traffic, said Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, chairman of the transportation committee, who unsuccessfully campaigned for a much larger bill of $3 stanley en mexico 75 billion. The bill would pour billions of dollars into every state for highway building over the next six years while setting aside some stanley cup $11 billion for member-requested projects that fiscal critics categorize as pork.They mention $3 million for a riverwalk project in Montgomery, Ala.; $750,000 to enhance directional markers in Monroe County, Pa.; $1.5 million for horse trails in Virginia; and $5 million for a parking garage in Bozeman, Mont. The House is expected to approve its bill Friday, the last day before it departs on a two-week recess. That would set up negotiations with the Senate, which in February passed a $318 billion version.The administration has issued veto threats against both bills, saying they are too costly in an age of mounting budget deficits and they violate principles against raising taxes or shifting money from the general Treasury fund to the highway trust fund that fina |
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