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Senate Republican leaders changed their Obamacare replacement bill, but they could not save it. The effort to pass health care reform has officially collapsed.It fell apart when Senators Mike Lee, of Utah, and Jerry Moran, of Kansas, came out against the bill on Monday night. Their opposition surprised the White House.That makes four GOP senators promising to vote no, so the plan could never get the 50 votes it needed to pass.                                        As CBS News correspondent Nancy Cordes reports, Senate leader Mitch McConnell is reverting quickly to Plan C, and it s a Hail Mary pass that puts a number of his own Republican members in a tough spot. He s asking them to vote on a straight-up repeal of most of Obamacare, no replacement -- a bill they passed two years ago w stanley cup hen the stakes were a lot lower because they knew it would never become law. It s a very hard time they re having with the Obamacare situation,  stanley deutschland  President Trump said.  So, we re going to get that done.                 WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 27: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell  R-KY  speaks during a press conference after a closed-door  stanley quencher Senate GOP conference meeting on Capitol Hill, June 27, 2017 in Washington, DC.                                                      Drew Angerer / Getty Images                                        Hours after the president predicted victory, his own party members handed him a defeat. Kansas Sen. Moran said  we should not put our stamp of approval on bad pol Zbsg Friday Cat Blogging - 2 May 2008
  caneca stanley By Michael Barone, Thomas Jefferson Street blogTom Edsall, longtime Washington Post political reporter now at the Huffington Post, has a splendid post on the stimulus package, pointing to an issue I ve mentioned frequently over the years: the Alternative Minimum Tax. This tax, originally intended to prevent millionaires from completing avoiding income tax, is not indexed and threatens every year to apply to millions of affluent folks in high-tax states--Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Ma stanley mugs ryland,  California--who also tend to be Democrati stanley cup c voters. These states have 12 Democratic senators and 88 Democratic congressmen. An annual AMT patch is a political must for Democrats, both to propitiate these affluent voters and to reward public-sector unions, which might face downward pressure on spending and taxes if many voters could no longer deduct state and local taxes on their federal income taxes  as is the case for those hit by the AMT . By putting the AMT patch into the stimulus package, Democrats have avoided having to pay for it under the  paygo  rules, which has been a big problem for them every year.As Edsall points out, this means that the Democrats have tilted the stimulus package toward aiding the affluent rather than those at the lower end of the income spectrum.                                        On Facebook  You can keep up with Thomas Jefferson Street blog postings through Facebook s Networked Blogs.-- Read more by Michael Barone.        -- Read mo

Qouq Gun Ban s Lapse Triggers Debate
Senate Republican leaders changed their Obamacare replacement bill, but they could not save it. The effort to pass health care reform has officially collapsed.It fell apart when Senators Mike Lee, of Utah, and Jerry Moran, of Kansas, came out against the bill on Monday night. Their opposition surprised the White House.That makes four GOP senators promising to vote no, so the plan could never get the 50 votes it needed to pass.                                        As CBS News correspondent Nancy Cordes reports, Senate leader Mitch McConnell is reverting quickly to Plan C, and it s a Hail Mary pass that puts a number of his own Republican members in a tough spot. He s asking them to vote on a straight-up repeal of most of Obamacare, no replacement -- a bill they passed two years ago w stanley cup hen the stakes were a lot lower because they knew it would never become law. It s a very hard time they re having with the Obamacare situation,  stanley deutschland  President Trump said.  So, we re going to get that done.                 WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 27: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell  R-KY  speaks during a press conference after a closed-door  stanley quencher Senate GOP conference meeting on Capitol Hill, June 27, 2017 in Washington, DC.                                                      Drew Angerer / Getty Images                                        Hours after the president predicted victory, his own party members handed him a defeat. Kansas Sen. Moran said  we should not put our stamp of approval on bad pol Zbsg Friday Cat Blogging - 2 May 2008
  caneca stanley By Michael Barone, Thomas Jefferson Street blogTom Edsall, longtime Washington Post political reporter now at the Huffington Post, has a splendid post on the stimulus package, pointing to an issue I ve mentioned frequently over the years: the Alternative Minimum Tax. This tax, originally intended to prevent millionaires from completing avoiding income tax, is not indexed and threatens every year to apply to millions of affluent folks in high-tax states--Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Ma stanley mugs ryland,  California--who also tend to be Democrati stanley cup c voters. These states have 12 Democratic senators and 88 Democratic congressmen. An annual AMT patch is a political must for Democrats, both to propitiate these affluent voters and to reward public-sector unions, which might face downward pressure on spending and taxes if many voters could no longer deduct state and local taxes on their federal income taxes  as is the case for those hit by the AMT . By putting the AMT patch into the stimulus package, Democrats have avoided having to pay for it under the  paygo  rules, which has been a big problem for them every year.As Edsall points out, this means that the Democrats have tilted the stimulus package toward aiding the affluent rather than those at the lower end of the income spectrum.                                        On Facebook  You can keep up with Thomas Jefferson Street blog postings through Facebook s Networked Blogs.-- Read more by Michael Barone.        -- Read mo