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President Trump signing the Executive Order, October 12, 2017. The Executive Order Promoting Healthcare Choice and Competition, also known as the Trumpcare Executive Order, or Trumpcare, [4] [5] is an Executive Order signed by Donald Trump on October 12, 2017, which directs federal agencies to modify how the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of the Obama Administration is implemented.
In the Senate, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell appointed a group of 13 Republican Senators to prepare a bill. Democrats, independents, and other Republicans were excluded from the process and given no information until the new bill was released on June 22, 2017. The Senate bill is called the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has joined in, warning incoming Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) not to “waver” in the Senate’s “constitutional duty.”
“The concerns we raised had not been addressed, and my hope was that those would be addressed in the Senate and [the bill would then] return to the Assembly on concurrence,” Wood said.
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The bill was expected to be vetoed by President Obama should it pass the Senate. [27] In early December, the Senate passed an amended version of the healthcare reconciliation bill, sending it back to the House. [28] [29] It was passed by the House on January 6, 2016, and vetoed by President Obama on January 8, the sixth veto of his presidency. [30]
Sen. JD Vance on Tuesday night claimed former President Donald Trump, “salvaged Obamacare,” the health insurance program that Trump tried to kill.
The California State Senate has never been expanded since the enactment of the 1879 constitution. In 1962, voters were asked via initiative California Proposition 23 whether to expand the state senate by 10 seats, thereby increasing the size of the body to 50 seats, and to abandon the little federal model. [9]