Tuesday, August 1, 2017
Republicans say
time for Senate
to move on from
health care
WASHINGTON (AP) —
Leading Senate Republicans
said Monday it was time to
move from health care to
other issues, saying they saw
no fresh pathway to the votes
needed to reverse last week’s
collapse of their effort to
repeal and rewrite the Obama
health care law.
“For now, until we have a
path forward that gets us 50
votes in the Senate, we’ve
got other things to do and
we’re going to start turning
to those,” No. 3 Senate
GOP leader John Thune told
reporters.
“It’s time to move onto
something else, come back
to health care when we’ve
had more time to get beyond
the moment we’re in,” said
Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri,
another member of the GOP
leadership. “See if we can’t
put some wins on the board”
on bills revamping the tax
system and building public
works projects, he said.
The lawmakers spoke
after last week’s stunning
crash of the GOP’s drive to
tear down President Barack
Obama’s 2010 health care
law and replace it with their
vision of more limited federal
programs.
While the leaders stopped
short of saying they were
surrendering on an issue
that’s guided the party for
seven years, their remarks
underscored that Republi-
cans have hit a wall when it
comes to resolving internal
battles over what their stance
should be.
No. 2 Senate GOP leader
John Cornyn of Texas
signaled pique at White
House budget chief Mick
Mulvaney, who pushed
senators in weekend TV
appearances to keep voting
on health care until they
succeed.
Mulvaney has “got a
big job, he ought to do that
job and let us do our jobs,”
Cornyn said. He also said of
the former House member,
“I don’t think he’s got much
experience in the Senate, as I
recall.”
Despite
Mulvaney’s
prodding and weekend
tweets by President Donald
Trump insisting senators
revisit the issue, even the
White House’s focus turned
Monday to a new horizon:
revamping the tax code.
White House legislative
director Marc Short set an
October goal for House
passage of a tax overhaul that
the Senate could approve the
following month.
Plans envision Trump
barnstorming the country
to rally support for the tax
drive, buttressed by conser-
vative activists and business
groups heaping pressure on
Congress to act.
On health care last week,
Republican defections led
to the Senate decisively
rejecting
one
proposal
to simply erase much of
Obama’s statute. A second
amendment was defeated
that would have scrapped
it and substituted relaxed
coverage rules for insurers,
less generous tax subsidies
for consumers and Medicaid
cuts.
Republican, Democratic
and even bipartisan plans for
reshaping parts of the Obama
health care law are prolifer-
ating in Congress. They have
iffy prospects at best.
Republicans can push
something through the
Senate with 50 votes because
Vice President Mike Pence
can cast a tie-breaking vote.
But
GOP prospects
for reaching 50 seemed
to worsen after McCain
returned to Arizona for brain
cancer treatments.
His absence for the next
two weeks, before the Senate
begins it recess, probably
denies leaders their best
chance of turning that vote
around.
Rather than resuming its
health care debate, the Senate
began considering a judicial
nomination Monday.
In the House, 43 Demo-
cratic
and
Republican
moderates proposed a plan
that includes continuing
federal payments that help
insurers contain expenses
for lower-earning customers.
It would also limit Obama’s
requirement that employers
offer coverage to workers to
companies with at least 500
workers, not just 50.
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Los Angeles reaches deal with Olympic leaders for 2028 Games
LOS ANGELES (AP)
— Los Angeles reached
an agreement Monday
with international Olympic
leaders that will open the
way for the city to host the
2028 Summer Games, while
ceding the 2024 Games
to rival Paris, officials
announced Monday.
The arrangement would
make LA a three-time
Olympic city, after hosting
the 1932 and 1984 Games.
With the agreement, the
city is taking “a major step
toward bringing the Games
back to our city for the first
time in a generation,” Mayor
Eric Garcetti said in a state-
ment.
He called it a “historic
day for Los Angeles, for
the United States” and the
Olympic movement.
The agreement follows
a vote earlier this month by
the International Olympic
Committee to seek a deal
to award the 2024 and 2028
Games. Paris is the only city
left to host the 2024 Games.
The Los Angeles City
Council and U.S. Olympic
Committee
board
of
directors will consider the
agreement for approval in
August. If approved, the
IOC, LA and Paris may
enter a three-part agreement,
clearing the way for the IOC
to simultaneously award the
2024 Games to Paris, and
the 2028 Games to LA. The
IOC vote is scheduled for
September, in Lima, Peru.
last two bids remaining after
a tumultuous process that
exposed the unwillingness
of cities to bear the financial
burden of hosting an event
that has become synony-
mous with cost overruns.
LA was not even the first
American entrant in the
contest. Boston withdrew
two years ago as public
support for its bid collapsed
over concerns about use of
taxpayer cash. The U.S. bid
switched from the east to the
West Coast as LA entered
the race.
But the same appre-
hensions that spooked
politicians and the local
population in Boston soon
became evident in Europe
where three cities pulled out.
In embracing what
amounted to the second-
place prize and an 11-year
wait, LA will receive a
financial sweetener.
Under the terms of the
deal, the IOC will advance
funds to the Los Angeles
organizing committee to
recognize the extended plan-
ning period and to increase
youth sports programs
leading up to the Games.
The IOC contribution could
exceed $2 billion, according
to LA officials. That figure
takes into account the
estimated value of existing
sponsor agreements that
would be renewed, as well
as potential new marketing
deals.
LA and Paris were the
Uncomfortably for IOC
President Thomas Bach,
whose
much-vaunted
Agenda 2020 reforms were
designed to make hosting
more streamlined and less
costly after the lavish 2014
Sochi Games, the first
withdrawal came from his
homeland of Germany.
The lack of political
unity for a bid in Hamburg
was mirrored in Rome and
Budapest as support for bids
waned among local authori-
ties and the population.
It was clear they did
not want to be saddled
with skyrocketing bills
for hosting the Olympics
without reaping many of the
economic benefits antici-
pated.
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