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Lindsey Graham and Rick Santorum unveiled their legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare through block grants.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, the chairman of the Republican Governors Association (RGA), is publicly supporting a renewed push to repeal and replace Obamacare with a state-centric system that devolves power away from Washington, D.C., out to the 50 states.

Senator Lamar Alexander’s (R-TN) hearings on stabilizing the Obamacare marketplace could also lead to discussions on new legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare.

Former Obama Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Andy Slavitt, who helped implement the Affordable Care Act, said that the Graham-Cassidy bill remains the most significant opportunity to repeal Obamacare.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell moved for cloture on Supreme Court Nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch Tuesday, as both the judge’s confirmation and the future of Senate rules hang in the balance.

Both the future of Senate rules and the confirmation of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court hung in balance Tuesday as Senate Republican leadership tried to assemble the necessary votes for the “constitutional option.”

Republicans have proposed many plans to repeal and replace Obamacare. Here is a primer explaining the most important aspects of each plan.

A group of 200 locals expressed their displeasure during the opening prayer and Pledge of Allegiance at Sen. Bill Cassidy’s (R-Louisiana) town hall in Louisiana Wednesday night, Independent Journal Review (IJR.) reported.

Capitol Hill conservatives rallied behind the bill sponsored by Sen. Rand Paul (R.-Ky.) to replace the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Obamacare, with a patient-centered federal policy at a Wednesday press conference at the Capitol.

An experienced healthcare policy researcher observes that the Obamacare “replacement” plan put forward by Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) not only would allow for taxpayer funding of abortion, but would actually expand its funding over that provided in the original Obamacare law.

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana – Three Louisiana Republican lawmakers are pushing back after being attacked in the media and by fellow Republicans and Democrats in Congress over disaster relief money for the state’s flood victims.

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana – President Obama is being pressured by a bipartisan Louisiana congressional delegation to back a bill worth billions in federal aid for the state’s flood victims.

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana – The Los Angeles Times immediately is politicizing natural disaster relief for the thousands of flooding victims by attacking Republican lawmakers who represent the state.

In truth, there have been many proposals to repeal ObamaCare, advanced by individual Republican presidential candidates, congressional working groups, and think tanks. The political problem for Republicans is that they haven’t been able to rally as a party behind a single proposal that could be easily presented to the electorate.

Dayspring was undoubtedly effective at crushing conservative primary challengers to longtime Republican senators and helping Republicans take over the U.S. Senate. But his tactics throughout his career have been so brutal and personal, he’s become a larger-than-life personality in politics—someone who often overshadows whoever his boss is—and sometimes border on reckless.

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer asked Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) “you don’t want any deal, right?” during an interview on the letter (via Bloomberg) he and several other Senators wrote to Iran on Monday’s “Wolf.” “So, you don’t want any deal, basically, no matter

A member of John Boehner’s inner circle is under fire even as the House Speaker is at his most vulnerable. Exactly one week before the House GOP’s top official will seek re-election to his post, multiple sources report that his deputy, House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, spoke at a conference of white supremacists back in 2002.

Senator-Elect Bill Cassidy (R-LA) argued that the Democratic Party was trying to “Gruberize” their opposition to the Keystone XL Pipeline and revealing “their prejudice against these working jobs on Monday’s “America’s Newsroom” on the Fox News Channel. “The American people

Louisiana’senator-elect Bill Cassidy told Fox News Sunday what national polls overwhelmingly confirm: the Republican Party is now the party of the working-class. “If there’s one party for the working person right now, it’s the Republican Party,” senator-elect Cassidy said.  Cassidy,

AUSTIN, Texas — The elections in Texas may be over, but the work is not for many Texas Republicans, who are now in Louisiana helping Representative Bill Cassidy, the Republican who is challenging Democrat Senator Mary Landrieu in a runoff

Conservative grassroots icon Anita Moncrief experienced the ugly side of Senator Mary Landrieu’s union supporters outside the only debate between the senator and her Republican opponent, Representative Bill Cassidy. The Black Conservatives Fund sent an exclusive video to Breitbart Texas

Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) is running a radio ad in which Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-LA) claims if Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) defeats her in Saturday’s runoff election, Republicans will impeach President Obama. Here’s the full text of the ad, as

Say what you want about her, for some reason, “Hillary Clinton is hosting a New York City fundraiser for Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., on Monday,” meaning she’s standing by Landrieu despite expectations that she’s headed for a landslide loss again

Representative and US Senate candidate Bill Cassidy (R-LA) touted his support for the Keystone XL pipeline and stated his opposition to the president’s executive action during the GOP weekly address on Saturday. Transcript (via ABC News Radio) as Follows: “Hello.

An internal poll shows incumbent Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) trails her Republican challenger Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) ahead of December’s runoff by 16 points. This confirms what demographer Elliot Stonecipher has known for some time: the demographics of Louisiana strongly favor

Senate Republicans just put a hole in a campaign claim of Senator Mary Landrieu (D – LA), who has been saying that her Republican opponent, Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), will not be able to get onto the chamber’s energy committee

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana — Inside a packed barroom in the heart of Cajun Country, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) united Louisiana Republicans behind Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) against incumbent Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) ahead of the coming Dec. 6 runoff.

Struggling in the polls and locked in a race most believe she can’t win, Democrat Mary Landrieu goes after her Republican challenger Bill Cassidy in a very personal way with a new TV spot entitled “ WHOA.”  See below. The ad

Democrats seem determined to leech all the suspense from the final month of incumbent Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu’s career.  Political wonks wanted a dramatic showdown, a little December chaser to the midterm election drama, but instead Democrats are pulling their

On Monday, a Louisiana police chief pulled over conservative Senate candidate Rob Maness to tell him that he had earned his vote in Tuesday’s jungle primary.  Mer Rouge Chief of Police Mitch Stephens unexpectedly stopped Maness as he was driving

Louisiana’s Democratic incumbent Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) is beating GOP candidate Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) in the latest poll in the state, leading him 36 percent to 32 percent. The Tea Party-backed Col. Rob Maness trails both candidates with just