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The First Family Take A Sunday Hike
Jeb Bush Says Senate Should Confirm Pres. Obama’s Pick For Attorney General
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The First Family take a walk on Sunday.
Jeb Bush says that the Senate should confirm the nomination of Loretta Lynch, President Barack Obama’s choice for at- torney general. A number of Sen- ate Republicans oppose her nomination.
“I think presidents have the right to pick their team,” Bush said, according to reports of his stop at the “Politics and Pie” forum in Concord, New Hamp- shire, on Thursday night.
The former Florida governor made sure to get in a few digs at current Attorney General Eric Holder, saying that Republicans should consider that the longer it takes to confirm Lynch, the longer Holder stays.
A Senate fight over a sex-traf- ficking bill that includes a contro- versial abortion provision has held up Lynch’s nomination for 160 days since President Obama announced his choice last Nov. 8, but Minority Leader Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is threatening to break protocol and force a vote on the Senate floor.
“If someone is supportive of the President’s policies, whether you agree with them or not, there should be some deference to the executive,” Bush told reporters. “It should not always be partisan.”
macare a government over- reach that drives up health costs. They object to its mandates -- that everyone have insurance, that em- ployers offer it, and that in- surance plans must cover certain items.
But Republicans have never united around a re- placement strategy. There is renewed interest in produc- ing one now, however, to be ready if the Court rules for the plaintiffs in the current Obamacare case and disal- lows tax subsidies through the federal exchange in a ruling expected in June.
Up to 7.5 million people in at least 34 states that use the federal exchange could then lose their tax subsidies, according to the consulting firm Avalere Health, dealing a possibly fatal blow to the program.
Democrats and the White House have said little about what they might do if the Supreme Court rules against the administration. No re- placement could go into ef- fect before 2017 unless President Obama signs it into law.
How did President Obama wrap up the week- end? A low-key nature walk with the First Family.
President Barack Obama, 53, and First Lady Michelle Obama, 51, joined their two daughters Sasha, 13, and Malia, 16, for an unscheduled hike through Great Falls Park on Sunday.
POTUS and his girls left
the White House around 5 p.m. and spent about 45 minutes on the park trails – where they were also joined by a few other families – be- fore returning home around 7 p.m.
The Obamas kept it ca- sual in fleeces and baseball caps. An official White House photographer also joined them during the stroll.
JEB BUSH ...presidential candidate and former Florida Governor
LORETTA LYNCH ....her confirma- tion has been held up for over
160 days.
WASHINGTON - If the U. S. Supreme Court blows up the tax subsidies at the heart of Obamacare in June, Re- publicans hope to deliver on their promise to offer an al- ternative healthcare plan.
But key parts of it may re- semble the one President Barack Obama delivered five years ago in the Afford- able Care Act, partly reflect- ing Republican concerns that they could pay a politi- cal price if insurance subsi- dies are yanked from millions of Americans later this year.
Two front-running Re- publican options at an early stage in Congress include a refundable tax credit that experts say is virtually the same thing as the Oba- macare tax subsidy being challenged before the Supreme Court. Republi- cans deny that their ideas are tantamount to "Oba- macare Lite" but acknowl- edge they will need bipartisan support for their plans to stand any chance of avoiding a President Obama veto.
Republicans have been vowing for years to repeal and replace Obamacare, the President's signature policy achievement that Democrats passed in 2010 over united Republican opposition. De- mocrats say the act is insur- ing more Americans and helping to slow the growth in healthcare spending.
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