Outside the Beltway

By the barest of margins, the House passed its bill repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, but the future of that bill is highly uncertain.

After failing twice in a month, House Republicans apparently think they have the votes to pass their bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

House Republicans are making yet another push to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, but they once again may not have the votes.

An assessment of the 45th President’s first 100 days.

Once again, the GOP punts on ‘repeal and replace’ because they don’t have the votes.

The Freedom Caucus may be mollified, but moderate Republicans and the Senate aren’t. Meaning that repeal and replacement of Obamacare is becoming less likely.

The Trump Administration is out with a tax plan, but it’s seriously lacking in details.

Donald Trump has basically declared war on the people who blocked the AHCA from passing last week.

Republicans are saying that repealing the PPACA isn’t off the table, but practically speaking it probably is.

The failure of the AHCA shows that Donald Trump doesn’t know the slightest thing about leadership or how to be President.

A major legislative defeat for Paul Ryan, the House GOP, and President Trump.

The Trump Administration has issued an ultimatum, but the fate of the American Health Care Act is still very much up in the air.

With a vote tentatively scheduled for this evening, House Republicans appear to lack the votes to pass the American Health Care Act.

Part Two in a series of observations about health care and health insurance in light of the introduction of the House GOP’s health care plan. This post examines several ideas advanced by conservatives, and the reasons they aren’t complete answers to the problems we face.

The Congressional Budget Office delivered some bad news yesterday to House Republicans on their replacement for Obamacare.

Health care policy analysts seem united in their assessment of the House GOP’s replacement for the Affordable Care Act, and it’s overwhelmingly negative.

Whether you call it TrumpCare, RyanCare, or GOPCare, the Republican replacement for the PPACA isn’t very impressive.

Can the GOP govern? Do they want to or know how to? (Does it matter?).

One month in, some Trump supporters are starting to wonder if he will actually deliver on what he promised.

On the eve of the 115th Congress, House Republicans voted to gut a key office charged with investigating Congressional ethics.

Get ready for more hearings if Hillary Clinton becomes President.

Paul Ryan is abandoning the Trump campaign.

House Republicans are vowing to continue their investigations even if Hillary Clinton wins the White House.

As with each previous committee that investigated the 2012 attack on the U.S outpost in Benghazi, the House Select Committee finds that mistakes were made but no evidence of wrongdoing or cover-ups.

A small group of Republican delegates is apparently discussing yet another quixotic effort to deny Donald Trump the nomination.

The man who was brought in to clean up the I.R.S. after the alleged targeting scandal became public is facing censure and possible impeachment. Proving that there really is such a thing as a thankless job.

A Federal Court has ruled that the Administration violated the law when it spent funds allocated under the PPACA for purposes other than those authorized by Congress.

Paul Ryan is declining to back Donald Trump for the time being, but other Republicans are making their own choices.

Five months after becoming Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan seems to be running into some of the same difficulties that John Boehner did.

If Donald Trump is the Republican nominee, the GOP may have more to worry about than losing the White House and the Senate.

The final spending bill for the 2016 Fiscal Year sailed through Congress today, marking the end of a very successful first two months in office for Speaker Paul Ryan

A Colorado Republican Congressman has introduced a resolution meant to involve our nation’s representatives in the non-existent ‘War On Christmas.’

Much more so than in the past, the race for the Republican Presidential race has become a battle to define what it means to be a ‘conservative.’ Especially on issues like immigration and national security, one side seems to be winning the battle.

Virginia Democrats tried to capture control of the Virginia State Senate by, in part, emphasizing gun control issues. The fact that they failed is instructive.

More good news for Hillary Clinton, and a sign that the race for the Democratic nomination, to the extent there really is a race at this point, is close to being over.

Paul Ryan’s admission that immigration reform will not happen as long as Barack Obama is President simply reflects the reality of immigration politics in Congress.

As expected, the Senate easily passed the two-year budget deal early this morning.

Yesterday, Paul Ryan spoke out against the procedure under which the new budget deal was negotiated. Today, he announced that he’ll vote for it anyway.

The House Committee investigating the IRS targeting scandal will consider impeaching the I.R.S. Commissioner over issues that are, at beast, only tangentially related to the scandal itself.

Congress and the White House have reached a tentative deal on the budget and debt ceiling that promises to make Paul Ryan’s initial months as Speaker a lot easier.

With the voting now seemingly a mere formality, the question becomes what kind of Speaker of the House Paul Ryan will become.

After an eleven hour day on Capitol Hill, it was Hillary Clinton 1 House Benghazi Committee 0.

With the top conservative caucus in Congress acquiescing to his candidacy, Paul Ryan is largely certain to become the next Speaker of the House.

Paul Ryan has never really wanted to be Speaker Of The House, but he’s take the job if House Republicans meet the conditions he’s set out.

With Congress set to come back from its recess, attention is once again turning to the race for Speaker and one Paul Ryan, Congressman from Wisconsin.

Another Republican Congressman has said that the Select Committee investigating the Benghazi attack is primarily concerned with scoring political points against Hillary Clinton.

Paul Ryan has yet to say if he will run for Speaker of the House, but that hasn’t stopped the opposition on the hard right from forming already.

Paul Ryan is getting pressure from all sides to get into the race for Speaker Of The House.

Another political earthquake in Washington as Kevin McCarthy drops out of the race for Speaker, and the House GOP doesn’t seem to know which way to go.