Author: Stephanie Moffat

Americans Want Democrats In Charge Of Congress: Poll Half the country wants the Democratic Party to control Congress after the 2018 midterm elections, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released Thursday. The poll found that 50 percent of those polled said they want Democrats to control the legislative branch, while 42 percent said they want the Republican Party to retain control of Congress. The results come after Democrats lost all special elections in 2017 to Republicans and the party debates how to proceed in the Trump era. The poll also found that Donald Trump’s approval rating...

Hospital Group Tells GOP To ‘Go Back To The Drawing Board’ On Health Bill   The nation’s largest hospital group, the American Hospital Association blasted the newly released Republican Senate health bill on Thursday. In fact, the American Hospital Association told Republicans to “go back to the drawing board” on its healthcare legislation and warned that the current GOP plan would hurt the nations most vulnerable. “From the onset of this debate, America’s hospitals and health systems have been guided by a set of key principles that would protect coverage for Americans,” AHA President Rick Pollack said in a...

Trump Admits He Lied About Comey Tapes Trump Admits He Threatened James Comey With Fake Tapes.  After weeks of speculation, Donald Trump on Thursday admitted that he does not have any recordings of his conversations with former FBI Director James Comey – despite having threatened Comey with the tapes on Twitter. “I did not make, and do not have, any such recordings,” Trump tweeted. Trump however, raised the possibility that a third party could have recorded his conversations with the ousted FBI director. “With all of the recently reported electronic surveillance, intercepts, unmasking and illegal leaking of information, I...

Protestors At McConnell’s Office Dragged Out Of Capitol Building Just as Senate Republicans released their secret Obamacare repeal bill, a group of protestors assembled outside of Mitch McConnell’s office.  Under orders from Republican leadership, Capitol Police dragged protesters, many of them in wheelchairs, out of the Capitol. Here are photos and videos of the disturbing event: Tense situation outside McConnell's Russell office as protesters gather. Capitol Police blocking off hallway pic.twitter.com/48H3KUipfK — Andrew Desiderio (@desiderioDC) June 22, 2017 Capitol Police are physically removing protesters who are staging a "die-in" in front of McConnell's office pic.twitter.com/8BU0dW63VI — Andrew Desiderio (@desiderioDC)...

Bernie Sanders: Senate Health Bill ‘Worse Than Expected’ Senator Bernie Sanders on Thursday blasted the Senate Republican plan to repeal Obamacare saying the legislation “is even worse” than he expected. “The bill Republicans announced today is even worse than expected and by far the most harmful piece of legislation I have seen in my lifetime,” Sanders said in a statement. “This bill has nothing to do with health care. It has everything to do with an enormous transfer of wealth from working people to the richest Americans.” “Our job now is to rally millions of Americans against this disastrous...