With the apparent demise of the Senate Republican’s health-care bill, President Donald Trump and others have called for repealing the Affordable Care Act without having a successor program in hand. U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, a Maine Republican, said Tuesday she’s opposed to repeal alone. “I do not think that it’s constructive to repeal a law […]
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Susan Collins, Angus King both oppose revised Senate health care bill
A new health care proposal by the Senate GOP may face a rocky future. Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine said changes made to the measure’s first draft aren’t enough. “Still deep cuts to Medicaid in Senate bill,” she said in a statement on Twitter, where she said she’ll vote no on whether to […]
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Susan Collins and Angus King oppose GOP health care bill
WASHINGTON — After the Congressional Budget Office estimated Monday that the Senate Republican health care bill would leave 22 million more Americans uninsured in 2026 than under President Barack Obama’s health care law, Maine’s senators said they will oppose the bill. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said she would vote against a GOP procedural motion, expected Wednesday, to begin […]
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Opposition pressuring Susan Collins to reject Senate health care bill
Working as a long-term substitute teacher and with a baby on the way, 31-year-old Tom Kelley figured he was young enough and healthy enough to “coast a little” without coughing up scarce cash for health insurance for a while. Then the Lewiston man noticed something unsettling, went to his doctor and learned that he really […]
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Angus King blasts GOP healthcare bill while Susan Collins studies it
Denouncing a new Republican health care bill Thursday, independent U.S. Sen. Angus King of Maine called it a “really cruel” bid to take health care away from the poor, disabled and elderly “so very wealthy people can get a tax cut.” While King offered harsh words about the proposed overhaul of the Affordable Care Act, […]
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A skeptical Susan Collins may decide fate of GOP's health care bill
Almost nobody knows what the Senate’s health care plan will look like because it’s been drafted behind closed doors with no public hearings, no copies for anyone to see and no updates on what it might contain. The other thing nobody knows is whether it has a future. One of the people who may decide […]
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Maine lawmakers praise Capitol Police for response to shooter
Nobody from Maine’s congressional offices attended the early morning baseball practice disrupted by a gunman in northern Virginia Wednesday. But all of the state’s lawmakers reacted quickly to the shooting of a lawmaker, staffer, lobbyist and police officers by offering support to the wounded and uniformly praising the officers at the scene. U.S. Sen. Susan […]
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Angus King calls for release of Oval Office tapes, if they exist
A Maine senator called for the release of possible recordings that may be a simple way to determine whether President Donald Trump or the FBI director he fired is telling the truth about a strange Valentine’s Day meeting between the two men in the Oval Office. “Lordy, I hope there are tapes,” ex-FBI chief James […]
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Who are the senators asking James Comey questions?
WASHINGTON — The Senate Intelligence Committee hosts the most-anticipated congressional hearing of the year Thursday, when former FBI director James B. Comey is scheduled to testify and share details of his firing by President Donald Trump and the conversations they had about ongoing investigations into Russia’s alleged meddling in U.S. elections. Rarely do congressional hearings […]
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Angus King fumes at intelligence officials who refuse to answer his questions
Senate Intelligence Committee members, from left, Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Sen. Angus King, D-Maine, listen to testimony from Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and other security chiefs about gathering intelligence on foreign agents, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 7, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) At a […]