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President Trump invited all the Re stanley cup publican senators to the White House to discuss health care, soon after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced that the Senate vote on the bill, originally slated for this week, would be postponed until after the July 4 recess.After the Congressional Budget Office released its score of the bill, showing tens of millions more would be uninsured if the Senate bill were to become law, it became evident that McConnell lacked the support to bring the bill to the floor for a vote.At the White House Tuesday afternoon, Mr. Trump told senators that because Obamacare is a total disaster, we really have no choice but to solve this situation. WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 27: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Senate Republicans at the East Room of the White House June 27, stanley cup 2017 in Washington, DC. President Trump invited all GOP Senate members to the White House to discuss the Health Care bill. Alex Wong / Getty Images stanley taza Flanked by moderates Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Mr. Trump said to the senators, This will be great if we get it done. Murkowski had told reporters earlier that she certainly wasn t ready to vote on the bill, and she called the delay an important step. The president contemplated the possibility that the GOP-controlled Senate, divide Evrv Despite calls to move on, Obama talks health care
The dairy industry contributed to most members of a key House committee who voted nearly in lockstep against banning the sale of meat from ill or disabled animals, like the one that tested positive last week for mad cow disease.Political action committees representing dairy farmers gave money to 33 of the 51 members of the House Agriculture Committee, an Assoc stanley cup iated Press review of stanley travel mug campaign repor stanley canada ts shows.Of the 33, 28 voted against the ban on marketing downed animals, four voted for it and one didn t vote, when it was defeated 202-199 in July. The Senate approved the ban on a voice vote in November, but it was left out of the final compromise passed by the House this month and awaiting action in the Senate. Most downers are old dairy cows whose meat can bring farmers a little extra revenue. The Agriculture Department estimates that 130,000 are brought to slaughterhouses every year, and that those showing signs of mad cow disease are tested.To prevent disease, the government prohibits processing the brain and spinal cord of such animals mdash; the pathways for mad cow disease mdash; into meat. Congressional supporters of the ban have warned that downed animals are more likely to have mad cow disease, a brain-wasting illness. In addition, animal rights advocates oppose the sale of downed animals because they say so many are injured or ill that they must be dragged by chains or forklifts to the slaughterhouse.So far this year, t
President Trump invited all the Re stanley cup publican senators to the White House to discuss health care, soon after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced that the Senate vote on the bill, originally slated for this week, would be postponed until after the July 4 recess.After the Congressional Budget Office released its score of the bill, showing tens of millions more would be uninsured if the Senate bill were to become law, it became evident that McConnell lacked the support to bring the bill to the floor for a vote.At the White House Tuesday afternoon, Mr. Trump told senators that because Obamacare is a total disaster, we really have no choice but to solve this situation. WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 27: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Senate Republicans at the East Room of the White House June 27, stanley cup 2017 in Washington, DC. President Trump invited all GOP Senate members to the White House to discuss the Health Care bill. Alex Wong / Getty Images stanley taza Flanked by moderates Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Mr. Trump said to the senators, This will be great if we get it done. Murkowski had told reporters earlier that she certainly wasn t ready to vote on the bill, and she called the delay an important step. The president contemplated the possibility that the GOP-controlled Senate, divide Evrv Despite calls to move on, Obama talks health care
The dairy industry contributed to most members of a key House committee who voted nearly in lockstep against banning the sale of meat from ill or disabled animals, like the one that tested positive last week for mad cow disease.Political action committees representing dairy farmers gave money to 33 of the 51 members of the House Agriculture Committee, an Assoc stanley cup iated Press review of stanley travel mug campaign repor stanley canada ts shows.Of the 33, 28 voted against the ban on marketing downed animals, four voted for it and one didn t vote, when it was defeated 202-199 in July. The Senate approved the ban on a voice vote in November, but it was left out of the final compromise passed by the House this month and awaiting action in the Senate. Most downers are old dairy cows whose meat can bring farmers a little extra revenue. The Agriculture Department estimates that 130,000 are brought to slaughterhouses every year, and that those showing signs of mad cow disease are tested.To prevent disease, the government prohibits processing the brain and spinal cord of such animals mdash; the pathways for mad cow disease mdash; into meat. Congressional supporters of the ban have warned that downed animals are more likely to have mad cow disease, a brain-wasting illness. In addition, animal rights advocates oppose the sale of downed animals because they say so many are injured or ill that they must be dragged by chains or forklifts to the slaughterhouse.So far this year, t
