March 23, 2017
Today's the day in Washington as the House prepares to vote, on the seventh anniversary of Obamacare's passage, on the Republican plan to repeal and replace it. The bill's fate is in conservatives' hands, Melissa Quinn reports. In London, a suspected Islamist terrorist attack kills at least four and injures dozens. Josh Siegel has that story, and another on President Trump's bid to reform the U.N. Plus: Nolan Peterson on bleak prospects in Ukraine, and Ken McIntyre with what experienced Washington reporters say about attempts to marginalize The Daily Signal.
In addition to members of the Freedom Caucus, a number of centrist Republicans have come out against the bill, which is expected to be voted on today.
Gorsuch was asked about physician-assisted suicide, the Constitution, and once again, about Roe v. Wade.
A story in The Washington Post questioning the legitimacy of The Daily Signal and its White House correspondent demonstrates the entrenched news media's slowness to adapt and protectiveness of its turf, a veteran Washington reporter observes.
"The attacks that are a little more low grade are harder to protect against than grandiose plots that occurred in the decade following 9/11," says Daveed Gartenstein-Ross of Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
One Republican lawmaker's office received 300 calls pushing one viewpoint, and only one call with the opposite position.
A Russian bank in the historic heart of Kyiv, Ukraine's capital, has become the epicenter of an escalating crisis that has Ukrainians doubting whether a political solution is still possible to end a 3-year-old war against a combined force of pro-Russian separatists and Russian regulars.
The White House budget proposal eliminates the U.N.'s Green Climate Fund, designed to help poorer countries pay for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
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