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Vern Buchanan to host town hall meeting on March 18

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Vern Buchanan has never been shy about holding town hall meetings since being elected to Congress a decade ago, but the fact that he hasn’t done so yet in 2017 had caused some consternation from some local groups. Those concerns should be allayed now that Buchanan has announced that he will be holding a town hall meeting on Saturday, March 18 on the campus of New College of Florida in Sarasota “to discuss health care, tax cuts and any other…

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House GOP releases bill replacing Barack Obama health care overhaul

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House Republicans on Monday released their long-awaited plan for unraveling former President Barack Obama‘s health care law, a package that would scale back the government’s role in health care and likely leave more Americans uninsured. House committees planned to begin voting on the 123-page legislation Wednesday, launching what could be the year’s defining battle in Congress and capping a seven-year Republican effort to repeal the 2010 law. Though GOP leaders expect their measure to win the backing of the Trump…

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Charlie Crist demands more transparency from Donald Trump

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Charlie CristĀ says ā€œcount him inā€ on investigations into President Donald Trumpā€™s possible conflicts of interest and ethical violations. The St. Petersburg Democrat supports a Resolution of Inquiry put forward by New York DemocratĀ Jerald Nadler, which calls on theĀ Department of Justice (DOJ) to provide Congress with all information from any investigations into the president. Nadler’s resolution bypasses standard procedures of how bills work through the House of Representatives. It’s written in a way that the resolution must be brought to the…

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GOP proposed health reforms care would ’cause chaos,’ Kathy Castor says

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Tampa Democratic Representative Kathy Castor says that a leakedĀ GOP alternative plan for healthcare would have “direĀ consequences for families here in the state of Florida.” A draft bill detailing Republican plans to begin repealing and replacing many facets of the ACA would provide expanded tax credits and health savings accounts for individuals while reducing federal spending on tax subsidies and Medicaid and practically eliminating both the current employer and individual mandate to provide and carry health insurance, according to NBC News.…

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Charlie Crist signs on to letter calling on GOP to refrain from cutting family planning funding

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St. Petersburg Representative Charlie Crist is adding his voice to a collection of House DemocratsĀ opposing a vote scheduled this week that would banĀ funding for Planned Parenthood and other family planning organizations under the Title X National Family Planning Program. “Title X-funded health centers, like Planned Parenthood, provide birth control, mammograms, cancer screenings and family planning services for millions of women across the country,”Ā Crist said in a statement.Ā “These attempts to restrict a woman’s access to comprehensive reproductive care ā€“ disproportionately impacting…

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For Donald Trump, a solitary start to life in the White House

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Around 6:30 each evening, Secret Service agents gather in the dim hallways of the West Wing to escort Donald Trump home. For some presidents, the short walk between the Oval Office and the White House residence upstairs is a lifeline to family and a semblance of normal life. Others have used the grand residence for late night entertaining and deal-making with lawmakers. For Trump, life in the White House residence is so far a largely solitary existence. With his wife…

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Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell ā€” why are you enabling Donald Trump?

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An open letter to House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell: Gentlemen: It was wisdom rather than whim that guided the founders of our nation in separating the powers of government with a system of checks and balances. As James Madison remarked in The Federalist 47, “the accumulation of all powers … in the same hands, whether of one, a few or many … may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” Their faith in the…

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