Tag: Senate GOP

Pence breaks tie to nix Obama-era consumer arbitration rule

The following post by Jordain Carney was posted on the Hill website October 24, 2017:

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Vice President Pence joined with Senate Republicans to nix a controversial consumer bureau rule banning companies from using forced settlements to resolve disputes with customers.

Senators voted 50-50 on the resolution of disapproval. GOP Sens. Lindsey Graham (S.C.) and John Kennedy (La.) joined with Democrats to oppose cutting the Obama-era rule.

Pence then took over the presiding officer’s chair and cast the tie-breaking vote to make the total 51-50.

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Senate Gives House Republicans Little Cover on Health Care in 2018

The following article by Simone Pathé was posted on the Roll Call website July 31, 2017:

Some House GOP lawmakers trusted Senate to improve legislation

When Florida Rep. Carlos Curbelo voted for the Republican health care bill this spring, he did so believing the Senate would make it better.

“I received strong assurances that major improvements would be made in the Senate,” the two-term congressman wrote in a May Miami Herald op-edexplaining his vote.

Senate Republicans have tolerated Trump’s controversies. His treatment of Sessions is different.

The following article by Paul Kane was posted on the Washington Post website July 26, 2017:

President Trump said he would have “picked someone else” had he known that Attorney General Jeff Sessions would recuse himself from the Russia probe. (The Washington Post)

Sen. John Cornyn counts Attorney General Jeff Sessions as one of his best friends in Washington, and their wives are even closer, making the couples regular double-date partners.

“We occasionally get together to break bread,” the Senate majority whip said Wednesday. One of those double dates came recently enough that Cornyn (R-Tex.) and Sessions could not avoid the elephant in the room: President Trump’s public taunting of his attorney general, in a manner that suggests he wants Sessions to resign. Continue reading “Senate Republicans have tolerated Trump’s controversies. His treatment of Sessions is different.”