May 5, 2017
Good morning from Washington, where President Trump and House Republicans are celebrating passage, with one vote to spare, of a revised bill to replace Obamacare. Now the action moves to the Senate. We've got stories from Melissa Quinn and Rachel del Guidice, along with commentary from Bob Moffit and Jean Morrow. Trump pleases many Americans with an executive order protecting religious freedom, as Fred Lucas reports, but the action doesn't go nearly far enough, Ryan T. Anderson argues. Plus: Nolan Peterson on the mood before Sunday's presidential election in France, and Beverly Hallberg on what Jimmy Kimmel's personal story says about our society. Have a great weekend.
While the House bill is a major improvement over current law, the Senate can do even better.
President Trump said he'd stand up to politically correct bullying from the left. So why isn't he doing that in the case of religious freedom?
Republicans are using a budget tool called reconciliation to fast-track their Obamacare replacement plan through the Senate, where it will need 51 votes to pass.
For 55 percent of French voters, their first choice for president won't be on the ballot this Sunday during the second, final round of the French presidential election, writes Nolan Peterson, who is covering the election from Paris.
House Speaker Paul Ryan needed 216 votes to pass the legislation, and 20 GOP members voted no along with all 193 Democrats.
President Trump's executive order takes aim at a 1954 law prohibiting pastors and other religious leaders from supporting specific candidates from the pulpit.
The care, technology, and lifesaving treatment Jimmy Kimmel's family experienced was made possible by two privately funded organizations, not government-run hospitals.
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