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WASHINGTON, March 14- President Donald Trump and congressional leaders are weighing changes to their effort to dismantle the Obamacare health law, a White House spokesman said Tuesday, as Republicans defended their plan following an estimate that it would cause 14 million Americans to lose insurance next year. Press Secretary Sean Spicer said White House...

The White House says President Donald Trump made more than $150 million in income in 2005 and paid $38 million in income taxes that year. The White House is pushing back pre-emptively, saying that publishing those returns would be illegal. The White House adds that it is "totally illegal to steal and publish tax returns" and is bashing the "dishonest media.

WASHINGTON, March 10- House of Representatives Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said on Friday it would be "very difficult" to accelerate the end of enrollment in the Obamacare Medicaid expansion, as some conservative members of his Republican Party have proposed.

WASHINGTON— Conservative Republicans demanded tougher changes Friday in insurance requirements and Medicaid than the House GOP health care bill proposes and warned they'd oppose the legislation if it isn't reshaped. The White House signaled an openness to negotiate, but there was resistance from House leaders. And it illustrated anew the strained...

PROVIDENCE, R.I.— The Latest on the effects of a proposed congressional health care overhaul on Rhode Island:. Gina Raimondo says a plan in Congress to repeal President Barack Obama's health care law puts thousands of Rhode Island residents at risk of losing care and will make health care more expensive for those who can least afford it. Raimondo says Obama's...

PROVIDENCE, R.I.— Rhode Island's Democratic leaders said Tuesday that a new Republican health care bill proposed in the U.S. House of Representatives could harm the state. But in January, she wrote to U.S. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy asking the California Republican to maintain existing coverage gains realized under former President Barack Obama's...

Frank Pallone of New Jersey and Jan Schakowsky of Illinois came up empty at Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy's office and then headed to Energy and Commerce Chairman Greg Walden's office where they were also turned away. Rand Paul held an impromptu press conference to demand release of the bill. Rand Paul is demanding House Republican leaders release a draft...

A maverick GOP senator and top Democrats staged made-for-TV scavenger hunts across the Capitol on Thursday for a draft of the measure, momentarily overshadowing months of labor by Republicans out to reshape the nation's health care system. Rand Paul, R- Ky., proclaimed to reporters after being denied entry to the ground floor room where he said the measure was...

Required by the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law, the Securities and Exchange Commission's "extraction rule" was approved this summer to require companies such as Exxon Mobil Corp and Chevron Corp to publicly state the taxes and other fees they pay to governments. After a series of legal battles the SEC in June 2016 finally completed the rule, which...

WASHINGTON, Jan 25- Congressional Republicans are set to overturn a slew of Obama-era regulations next week, including a controversial anti-bribery rule aimed at U.S. resource companies such as Exxon Mobil Corp and Chevron Corp, according to a top lawmaker. Other rules eyed for quick overturning by Congress include newly minted environmental, gun control and...

WASHINGTON, Jan 11- Republicans on Wednesday passed a bill in the House of Representatives that touched on nearly every step U.S. agencies take in creating and applying new rules, continuing their blitz to radically reform "abusive" federal regulation of areas from the environment to the workplace. The legislation would give President-elect Donald Trump...