Helen Huiskes
Reporter at NOTUS
reporter @notusreports. previously @washingtonian, @wheatonrecord, @chronicle, @wweek. pdx born & raised.
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5 days ago |
notus.org | Ursula Perano |Helen Huiskes
Congress Sen. John Thune talks after a policy luncheon on Capitol Hill. Senate GOP leaders have just days left if they want to meet their self-imposed July 4 deadline for reconciliation. They’ll have to start flipping votes — fast. There are more than a half-dozen Republican senators with open objections to the bill, which has still not yet been fully written or publicly released.
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1 week ago |
notus.org | Daniella Diaz |Helen Huiskes
As House Republicans repeatedly pressure senators to change a reconciliation bill House lawmakers already had a chance to shape, some Republicans in the upper chamber are getting frustrated. “I think it’s kind of a hollow argument,” Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, a member of Republican leadership, told NOTUS. “They’re entitled to their opinion.
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1 week ago |
notus.org | Ursula Perano |Helen Huiskes
The fate of the GOP’s reconciliation bill may very well come down to Medicaid. The Trump administration is pulling out all the stops to convince holdouts — those who want more cuts and those who want fewer — but as of Tuesday, just over two weeks out from the GOP’s July 4 deadline, Senate Republican leaders don’t appear to have the votes for a bill that doesn’t even fully exist yet. “I’m a ‘no,’” said Sen. Ron Johnson, who opposes the bill over deficit concerns. “I’m a ‘no’ for next week, for sure.”
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1 week ago |
notus.org | Riley Rogerson |Helen Huiskes |Daniella Diaz
As the shootings in Minnesota rattle Capitol Hill, lawmakers are scrambling to disrupt what they see as a long and escalating pattern of political violence — and grappling with the growing fear they might not be able to stop it. “It is so unfortunate what happened in Minnesota, it raises this dark reality that we are all one vote away from losing our lives,” Rep. Norma Torres, a member of the House Administration Committee, which has oversight of member security, told NOTUS.
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1 week ago |
notus.org | Helen Huiskes |Ursula Perano
It’s another make-or-break week for Senate Republicans scrambling to pass their reconciliation bill. Republicans say they want to have a bill ready next week. With Thursday and Friday off for Juneteenth, that gives them essentially three legislative days to work out a whole menu of obstacles. Still at issue: How much of the House’s cuts to Medicaid will Senate moderates tolerate?
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