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Trump tells Republican lawmakers: Enough talk. Time to deliver

EghtesadOnline: President Donald Trump pushed Republican lawmakers on Thursday for swift action on a sweeping agenda including his planned U.S.-Mexican border wall, tax cuts and repealing the Obamacare law, despite tensions over timetables and priorities.
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Publish Date:27/January/2017 | 16:30

US House Bill Seeks to Sabotage Iran’s Plane Deals

EghtesadOnline: A Republican congressman has introduced legislation in the new US Congress that could complicate Boeing and Airbus sales to Iran Air, made possible by a multinational nuclear agreement signed in July 2015.
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Publish Date:21/January/2017 | 14:22

Republican Governors Balk as Congress Races to End Obamacare

EghtesadOnline: Republican governors, while remaining publicly committed to ending Obamacare, are telling their congressional delegations that repealing the health-care law without an adequate replacement would ravage budgets and swamp hospitals with the uninsured.
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Publish Date:20/January/2017 | 13:25

GOP Embarks on Obamacare Repeal With No Agreement on Replacement

EghtesadOnline: Congressional Republicans completed the first step Friday toward their long-promised repeal of Obamacare, but now they face the much more difficult task of finding a way to unravel the massive health-care law and replace it.
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Publish Date:14/January/2017 | 05:26

Republicans pass sweeping bill to reform 'abusive' U.S. regulation

EghtesadOnline: Republicans on Wednesday passed a bill in the House of Representatives that touched on nearly every step U.S. agencies take in creating and applying new rules, continuing their blitz to radically reform "abusive" federal regulation of areas from the environment to the workplace.
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Publish Date:12/January/2017 | 08:58

Trump's choices for top Cabinet posts face big tests this week

EghtesadOnline: Senate confirmation hearings this week for President-elect Donald Trump's nominees for top jobs - from secretary of state to attorney general - should provide a test of his ability to work with fellow Republicans in Congress to enact his agenda.
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Publish Date:09/January/2017 | 13:20

Kentucky lawmakers to take up 'right-to-work' legislation

EghtesadOnline: Republican lawmakers in Kentucky will take up a bill on Saturday that would make it the 27th U.S. state to allow workers the right to work in union-represented shops and receive union-negotiated benefits without paying dues to the representing body.
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Publish Date:07/January/2017 | 15:25

Republicans make repealing Obamacare 'first order of business'

EghtesadOnline: President Barack Obama exhorted fellow Democrats on Wednesday to preserve his legacy-defining healthcare law as Republicans moved ahead with their long-sought bid to scrap it in what Vice President-elect Mike Pence called the "first order of business" of Donald Trump's administration.
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Publish Date:05/January/2017 | 04:50

U.S. Republican senator introduces Obamacare repeal resolution

EghtesadOnline: Republican U.S. Senator Mike Enzi introduced on Tuesday a resolution allowing for the repeal of President Barack Obama's signature health insurance program, which provides coverage to millions of Americans, Enzi's office said in a statement.
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Publish Date:04/January/2017 | 05:06

Trump’s Border Wall, Deportation Plans Face Pushback From GOP

EghtesadOnline: Donald Trump’s pledges to deport undocumented immigrants and build a U.S.-Mexico border wall helped fuel Republicans’ surprising election victories, but they now face growing challenges from fellow party members.
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Publish Date:31/December/2016 | 04:43

Ryan Proposes Fines, Ethics Moves on Grandstanding House Members

EghtesadOnline: U.S. Speaker Paul Ryan and his Republican lieutenants want to hit fellow lawmakers with fines and potential ethics violations if they engage in live-streaming or other disruptions on the House floor.
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Publish Date:25/December/2016 | 11:09
No GOP leader since World War II has dodged a downturn

Republican Presidents and Recessions: A Pattern Trump Would Like to Break

EghtesadOnline: Here’s a frightening factoid for Donald Trump as he prepares to take office next month: Every Republican president since World War II has been in power during at least one recession.
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Publish Date:21/December/2016 | 19:35

U.S. intelligence agencies feud with Republicans over Russian hacking

EghtesadOnline: Republican members of Congress are complaining that U.S. intelligence agencies are refusing to brief them widely on a classified CIA report that concluded Russia hacked Democratic Party data in an effort to help Donald Trump win the presidency.
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Publish Date:17/December/2016 | 08:03

Federal Reserve and Republican critics may compromise on oversight after Trump win

EghtesadOnline: Republican lawmakers and the Federal Reserve may be ready to strike a compromise deal on legislation that would give Congress greater scrutiny over the central bank, now that there is no longer the threat of a presidential veto, but it would likely stop short of dictating rules on setting interest rates.
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Publish Date:12/December/2016 | 14:38

GOP Unity With Trump Faces Test Over Spending Early Next Year

EghtesadOnline: Congress just navigated through the threat of a U.S. government shutdown, but Republicans may have set themselves up for an even bigger showdown next year at the start of Donald Trump’s presidency.
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Publish Date:11/December/2016 | 18:32

Trump Era Brings Moment of Truth for Republican Spending Hawks

EghtesadOnline: The most conservative House Republicans helped shut down the government and oust their own speaker in pursuit of cutting U.S. spending. Now they must decide whether to fight to hold Donald Trump to the same standard.
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Publish Date:10/December/2016 | 13:23

Never-Trump Senate Republicans Grapple With His Upset Victory

EghtesadOnline: Don’t ask Senator John McCain about Donald Trump. "I’m not talking about President-elect Trump. I will not talk about Donald Trump. Now look, tell all your friends, OK?" the Arizona Republican told reporters last week. "Do not ask me again about Donald Trump."
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Publish Date:05/December/2016 | 11:50

Republicans aim to coax Trump toward House trade tax plan

EghtesadOnline: Republicans in the U.S. Congress hope to convince President-elect Donald Trump to support an untested strategy of using the tax code to promote exports while slashing corporate taxes, framing it as a way to fulfill his campaign promises to restore blue-collar jobs.
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Publish Date:30/November/2016 | 20:00