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The researchers \u003ca href=\"http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.0546\">reported\u003c/a> in the journal \u003cem>Royal Society B \u003c/em>on Tuesday that the whales increased in body mass from 10 tons to 100 tons in just a few million years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"CfS5eSxdylyQtPKjztG9pbptFui3yNrB\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although it's hard to draw a direct connection between whale size and ocean dynamics 3 million years ago, other studies support the hypothesis. \"There are cases where food limitation or food production can basically control body size changes on very short time scales,\" Goldbogen says, referring to a 2013 study published in the \u003ca href=\"https://academic.oup.com/icesjms/article/70/6/1273/637166/Evidence-for-density-dependent-changes-in-body\">ICES Journal of Marine Science\u003c/a>. 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The researchers \u003ca href=\"http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.0546\">reported\u003c/a> in the journal \u003cem>Royal Society B \u003c/em>on Tuesday that the whales increased in body mass from 10 tons to 100 tons in just a few million years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although it's hard to draw a direct connection between whale size and ocean dynamics 3 million years ago, other studies support the hypothesis. \"There are cases where food limitation or food production can basically control body size changes on very short time scales,\" Goldbogen says, referring to a 2013 study published in the \u003ca href=\"https://academic.oup.com/icesjms/article/70/6/1273/637166/Evidence-for-density-dependent-changes-in-body\">ICES Journal of Marine Science\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cp>In the first of three matches with the world's No. 1 Go player, a Google artificial intelligence program claimed victory Tuesday. It won the round by just a fraction of a point in Wuzhen, China, but the win was enough to leave its grandmaster opponent impressed and thoroughly confounded by the result.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, after Google's AlphaGo \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/03/12/470193083/going-going-gone-master-go-player-loses-best-of-5-match-with-a-i\">dispatched a human grandmaster\u003c/a> in the notoriously complex board game for the first time, 19-year-old Ke Jie expressed confidence he wouldn't share the same fate, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/23/business/google-deepmind-alphago-go-champion-defeat.html?_r=0\">according to The New York Times\u003c/a>. After all, Ke had defeated Lee Sedol \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiukaSmq4bUAhXD8CYKHYbTDYkQFggoMAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fgogameguru.com%2F2nd-mlily-cup-final%2F&usg=AFQjCNFacMG2nd7GGQuRLtpj2p0HA_ITxg&sig2=lNu9EAzEwzWG9NgLqYeLjA\">several times\u003c/a> before himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the match's end Tuesday, Ke felt markedly different about his inhuman competitor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Last year, it was still quite humanlike when it played,\" Ke said. \"But this year, it became like a god of Go.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-HL5nppBnM\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His statement feels rather apt considering that, like a god, AlphaGo is its own greatest instructor. Last year, NPR's Geoff Brumfiel \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/03/08/469638745/how-googles-neural-network-hopes-to-beat-a-go-world-champion\">broke down the basics\u003c/a> of the program developed by Google's DeepMind lab:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"It started by studying a database of about 100,000 human matches, and then continued by playing against itself millions of times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As it went, it reprogrammed itself and improved. This type of self-learning program is known as a neural network, and it's based on theories of how the human brain works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"AlphaGo consists of two neural networks: The first tries to figure out the best move to play each turn, and the second evaluates who is winning the match overall.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>DeepMind has only further developed the architecture of the program since it defeated Lee last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also like a god, AlphaGo has been demonstrating its influence far and wide among the game's top players — including Ke, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/2017/05/revamped-alphago-wins-first-game-chinese-go-grandmaster/\">Wired notes\u003c/a> adopted some tactics from AlphaGo. The program played many of the world's top players under the pseudonym \"Master\" in online matches earlier this year, according to the magazine, and its unorthodox playing style affected Ke's.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"zheGSSUw3Jql409pa4yeLX1CSImXFvfc\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://blog.google/topics/machine-learning/alphago-machine-learning-game-go/\">blog post last year\u003c/a>, DeepMind CEO and co-founder Demis Hassabis explained what attracted his lab to the ancient game of Go, which has been around at least since the days of Confucius:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"[A]s simple as the rules are, Go is a game of profound complexity. There are more possible positions than the number of atoms in the universe, and more than a googol times larger than chess.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>It doesn't hurt that the game originated -- and remains very popular -- in China, with which Google has shared a fraught relationship. Roughly seven years ago, the California-based tech giant \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2011/07/22/125028043/google-to-shift-chinese-users-to-hong-kong\">pulled out of the country\u003c/a>, citing discomfort with Chinese censorship requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although \u003ca href=\"http://www.reuters.com/article/us-science-intelligence-go-idUSKBN18J0PE\">Reuters reports\u003c/a> that Eric Schmidt, chief of Google parent Alphabet, watched the match in person in China, the \u003cem>Times\u003c/em> notes that \"there was no obvious live video of the event\" available to viewers on the Chinese mainland. 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"content": "\u003cp>In November 1969, Richard Oakes and dozens of his fellow Native American activists came ashore at Alcatraz. The little island in San Francisco Bay had lain dormant since 1963, when its infamous federal prison had been shut down, and the group Oakes led set out to claim the land as its own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Indians of All Tribes had a century-old legal basis: \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/four/ftlaram.htm\">the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty\u003c/a> between the U.S. and the Sioux and Lakota, which they said returned defunct federal lands to native people. They announced that, by the terms of this treaty, Alcatraz could be legally claimed as theirs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so Oakes and his compatriots stayed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QNfUE7hBUc\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That day commenced a 19-month occupation of the island that attracted national attention to native rights and catapulted Oakes into wider notoriety and acclaim — such acclaim, in fact, that nearly five decades later, Google is celebrating his birthday with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/doodles/richard-oakes-75th-birthday\">doodle in his honor\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The aim was not only to set up a community, complete with a university, museum and cultural center, but also for the government to acknowledge the rights of American Indians to claim the out-of-use federal land as their own,\" the tech giant writes in a blog post. \"Although Richard didn't succeed in gaining the deeds to Alcatraz for his people, he brought their issues into the media spotlight and made a substantial impact on the treatment of American Indians in the US.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's just a dual sense of justice in this country,\" Oakes said in \u003ca href=\"https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/187780\">an interview just days after the occupation began\u003c/a>. \"We'd like an end to this. And I think this — manning the island of Alcatraz — is a positive step in that direction. If they're going to treat us separately, then we'll remain separately.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within half a year, though, the occupation began to splinter and weaken as many of the original occupiers returned to their daily lives and were replaced with others, some of whom rejected the Mohawk activist's leadership and pursued different aims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The final blow to the organized leadership occurred on January 5, 1970, when Oakes's 13 year old stepdaughter fell three floors down a stairwell to her death,\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/alca/learn/historyculture/we-hold-the-rock.htm\">the National Park Service writes\u003c/a>. \"Following Yvonne's death, Oakes left the island and the two competing groups maneuvered back and forth for leadership on the island.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would be another year and a half before federal law enforcement stormed Alcatraz and removed the few remaining occupiers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while the overt aims of the occupation were never realized, the Park Service explains that something else was achieved with Oakes' efforts:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"The success or failure of the occupation should not be judged by whether the demands of the occupiers were realized. The underlying goals of the Indians on Alcatraz were to awaken the American public to the reality of the plight of the first Americans and to assert the need for Indian self-determination. As a result of the occupation, either directly or indirectly, the official government policy of termination of Indian tribes was ended and a policy of Indian self-determination became the official US government policy.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Before that occupation even ended, Oakes was on to his next fight, taking part in the Pit River Indians' attempts to reclaim tribal land in Northern California. And once more he had little difficulty grabbing national headlines, joining the tribe in resisting not only Pacific Gas & Electric — the company that had laid claim to the land — but \u003ca href=\"https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DS19700605.2.15\">U.S. law enforcement, too\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was killed in 1972 under murky circumstances, after a confrontation with a white man turned violent. Though Oakes was unarmed, the man who shot him dead was acquitted of manslaughter on grounds of self-defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.npr.org\u003c/a>.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Richard+Oakes%2C+Who+Occupied+Alcatraz+For+Native+Rights%2C+Gets+A+Birthday+Honor&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>A new social network has grown quietly in recent months. It's called Gab, and its users are invited to #SpeakFreely — an appeal attractive to many members of the far right and others who feel their views are stifled by mainstream sites like Twitter and Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gab.ai was born not long before the election, a brainchild of a young CEO in a \"Make America Great Again\" hat, taking on what he calls \"the Big Social\" with a motto \"Free Speech For Everyone.\" While Facebook and Twitter are attempting to clean up offensive content and misinformation, Gab CEO Andrew Torba argues the efforts result in censorship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For whatever reason, we're shying away from individual liberty, individual responsibility to this nanny-state, Big-Brother-esque forum or model of the internet, which is really scary to me,\" Torba said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsBQfEZvJeY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent conversation\u003c/a> with a commentator on YouTube.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Gab makes the case for people to be able to post whatever they want, as long as it's legal. That means the site's \u003ca href=\"https://gab.ai/about/guidelines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">user guidelines\u003c/a> prohibit very few types of posts: illegal pornography, threats of violence or terrorism, confidential information of users without their consent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after Gab launched, a \u003cem>Wired\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/2016/09/gab-alt-rights-twitter-ultimate-filter-bubble/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article described\u003c/a> the site as \"an artifact from a dystopian universe where the alt-right completely took over Twitter.\" The alt-right has been associated with racism, anti-Semitism and misogyny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Spencer, the white nationalist and a major \"alt-right\" figure, was suspended from Twitter \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/11/16/twitter-suspends-prominent-alt-right-accounts/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in November\u003c/a> along with several other alt-right figures. \"To be honest, I don't know what I'm going to do,\" Spencer said in a follow-up \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiADHzBOqZ0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube video\u003c/a>. \"There's obviously Gab, which is an interesting medium. ... I think that will be the place where we go next.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A wave of news stories followed. \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/30/arts/the-far-right-has-a-new-digital-safe-space.html?_r=2&mtrref=undefined\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">described Gab\u003c/a> as \"a digital safe space for the far right.\" A \u003cem>Salon\u003c/em> reporter \u003ca href=\"http://www.salon.com/2016/11/05/inside-the-twitter-for-racists-gab-the-site-where-milo-yiannopoulos-goes-to-troll-now/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">asked Torba\u003c/a> about Gab's logo — a green frog dubbed Gabby: \"I suspected it was a reference to Pepe the frog,\" the reporter wrote, referring to \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/05/11/527590762/what-pepe-the-frogs-death-can-teach-us-about-the-internet\">the Internet cartoon character\u003c/a> that's been associated with the alt-right, neo-Nazis and white nationalists. Torba says the Gab frog is a religious reference, a symbol of exodus and rebirth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, in the fall, Gab was invitation-only. Thousands of people were said to be on the wait-list. \"Gab is less than a month old, so it may well flame out like \u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/2016/01/peach-is-so-hot-right-now-heres-why-the-internets-obsessed-with-it/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Peach\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/2016/05/ello-artists/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ello\u003c/a>,\" \u003cem>Wired's\u003c/em> Emma Grey Ellis wrote in that September feature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, Gab.ai opened to the public. It is funded with users' contributions. In a \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/@getongab/gab-is-now-out-of-beta-testing-with-open-registration-7c406e927116\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">post on Medium\u003c/a> on May 8, Gab leaders shared the latest statistics: \"In under nine months, 170,000 Gabbers have 7.6 million posts and raised $145,000 to help us expand our team and cover operational expenses.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11471654\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 631px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/compose-post_wide-7a380326a07c6d62376de022141a1e58b41c7cd8.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11471654\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/compose-post_wide-7a380326a07c6d62376de022141a1e58b41c7cd8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"631\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/compose-post_wide-7a380326a07c6d62376de022141a1e58b41c7cd8.jpg 631w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/compose-post_wide-7a380326a07c6d62376de022141a1e58b41c7cd8-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/compose-post_wide-7a380326a07c6d62376de022141a1e58b41c7cd8-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/compose-post_wide-7a380326a07c6d62376de022141a1e58b41c7cd8-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/compose-post_wide-7a380326a07c6d62376de022141a1e58b41c7cd8-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 631px) 100vw, 631px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gab has very few restrictions on what users aren't allowed to post, limited mostly to illegal porn and threats of violence. \u003ccite>(Gab.ai/Screenshot by NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'I want a buffet'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visually, Gab sort of combines some of the features of Twitter, Reddit and Facebook. You can follow people and repost or comment on anything anywhere. Posts are restricted to 300 characters and can be upvoted by the community. Gab has developed an Android app, but Apple has so far rejected the social network from its app store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are permanent categories like \"Cuisine\" or \"Sports\" and sort of trending ones, called \"Live Topics,\" like \"Julian Assange\" or \"Seth Rich\" (\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/05/19/529086029/sweden-drops-rape-case-against-julian-assange\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">both reflecting\u003c/a> the \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/05/17/528804792/unproved-claims-reemerge-around-dnc-staffer-s-death-here-s-what-you-should-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">latest news cycles\u003c/a>). Before Gab got rid of trending hashtags, #MAGA, #gabfam and #Trump were the virtually permanent mainstays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are no bans on hate speech or harassment (and language does fly freely). The users have the option to \"mute\" whatever people or terms they want. In the wild, without muting or following particular people, a random scroll through categories on Gab is a roller-coaster of posts: Some benign ones (a chicken recipe, a prayer in support of President Trump, some links to music clips), then a startling one (a photo of a group of Klansmen, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/leo-frank-case\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Leo Frank\u003c/a> lynching), then back to regular internet lore (a dog video, a \u003cem>Saturday Night Live\u003c/em> skit). Throughout it all, there's a tremendous amount of debate over news, with a heavy dose of conspiracy theories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Even when you have a bunch of people that are anti-politically correct and, you know, 'things were better in the 50s' or whatever the case ... people you might call alt-right, there's a much bigger group of people that aren't that,\" says Ryan Donker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I originally saw him posting in the science topics on Gab and later followed him on Twitter. His online handle is @TruckDrivinRyan — he drives 18-wheelers for a living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As a local driver doing port work, I have a lot of down time. Most of my day is sitting at the port waiting for a box to be taken off or put on,\" Donker says. \"It's times like that when I'll go on the internet, goof off with people, read up on interesting things, get into arguments — whatever I can do to pass the time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donker describes himself as libertarian. He says Trump is better than Hillary Clinton, but he does not always agree with the president. Donker is also openly gay. His partner is an immigrant. On Gab, he says he's faced off with a few haters — but that's what he likes about it: He says here, people are laid bare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know, this social media starts as a place to be free and open and share a bunch of thoughts and ideas all willy-nilly is the way it should be,\" Donker says. \"I don't want you to feed me — I want a buffet, where I can pick what I want. I don't want an algorithm to control my news feed, I want to decide for myself.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11471655\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 904px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/torba_wide-b504ae001b200b9fa25110559371daac6c5227c5.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11471655\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/torba_wide-b504ae001b200b9fa25110559371daac6c5227c5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"904\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/torba_wide-b504ae001b200b9fa25110559371daac6c5227c5.jpg 904w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/torba_wide-b504ae001b200b9fa25110559371daac6c5227c5-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/torba_wide-b504ae001b200b9fa25110559371daac6c5227c5-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/torba_wide-b504ae001b200b9fa25110559371daac6c5227c5-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/torba_wide-b504ae001b200b9fa25110559371daac6c5227c5-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/torba_wide-b504ae001b200b9fa25110559371daac6c5227c5-520x292.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 904px) 100vw, 904px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gab CEO's page on his own social network. \u003ccite>(Gab.ai/Screenshot by NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Conservative exodus from Twitter'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As told by CEO Torba, Gab's birth dates to the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/13/amid-allegations-of-bias-facebook-explains-how-trending-topics-works/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">controversy\u003c/a> over Facebook's sidelining of conservative-leaning topics from the \"Trending\" display.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's when I saw the opportunity to ... step up and defend free speech, defend individual liberty, defend the free flow of information that I saw under attack,\" Torba says in the recent YouTube video, in which he also describes feeling \"like a minority\" in Silicon Valley \"as a conservative, as a Christian, as a straight white male\" in a place that's \"very far-left, very progressive and very liberal-minded.\" (He now lives in Austin.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Craig Combs, a poet and writer from Michigan, says he felt Facebook was dominated by the liberal left. He says his posts there would regularly get removed, which he attributes to censorship. \"It was almost like being thrown into a timeout corner as a child,\" he says. \"I'm 48; I don't need to be treated this way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Combs says he first heard about Gab from David Seaman and other YouTubers as he followed the \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/26/521545788/conspiracy-theorist-alex-jones-apologizes-for-promoting-pizzagate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\"pizzagate\" conspiracy\u003c/a>. (Combs does not believe mainstream fact-checking and news sites that have debunked the rumors and maintains his belief in the story.) He quickly shifted to the new platform, and describes himself as an \"avid poster.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At first, I will be frank, it was a little culture shock for me,\" he says. \"Going from the liberalism of Facebook and having to adjust to that culture, then going to Gab — which frankly, even four months ago was very different than it is now. ... It was like a conservative exodus from Twitter.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Combs says he is not conservative — he has conservative values, but he describes himself as a libertarian, an \"independent thinker,\" and he is also gay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was at odds quite a bit over that,\" Combs says. \"I have encountered several people on Gab when I first started, I will be very frank, there is a very conservative thread that runs through that platform. And I think they're starting to get it that they're not there to control the conversation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Combs and Donker both say Gab's decision to \"open the floodgates\" is already helping to add diversity of views to what they both assume was the original crowd of hard-line conservative Republicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But are there any liberals? Donker laughs. \"There are a few,\" he says, later adding: \"I've never heard anybody say they support Hillary. But then again, Gab is a big place.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">www.npr.org\u003c/a>.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Feeling+Sidelined+By+Mainstream+Social+Media%2C+Far-Right+Users+Jump+To+Gab&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A new social network has grown quietly in recent months. It's called Gab, and its users are invited to #SpeakFreely — an appeal attractive to many members of the far right and others who feel their views are stifled by mainstream sites like Twitter and Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gab.ai was born not long before the election, a brainchild of a young CEO in a \"Make America Great Again\" hat, taking on what he calls \"the Big Social\" with a motto \"Free Speech For Everyone.\" While Facebook and Twitter are attempting to clean up offensive content and misinformation, Gab CEO Andrew Torba argues the efforts result in censorship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For whatever reason, we're shying away from individual liberty, individual responsibility to this nanny-state, Big-Brother-esque forum or model of the internet, which is really scary to me,\" Torba said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsBQfEZvJeY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent conversation\u003c/a> with a commentator on YouTube.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Gab makes the case for people to be able to post whatever they want, as long as it's legal. That means the site's \u003ca href=\"https://gab.ai/about/guidelines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">user guidelines\u003c/a> prohibit very few types of posts: illegal pornography, threats of violence or terrorism, confidential information of users without their consent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after Gab launched, a \u003cem>Wired\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/2016/09/gab-alt-rights-twitter-ultimate-filter-bubble/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article described\u003c/a> the site as \"an artifact from a dystopian universe where the alt-right completely took over Twitter.\" The alt-right has been associated with racism, anti-Semitism and misogyny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Spencer, the white nationalist and a major \"alt-right\" figure, was suspended from Twitter \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/11/16/twitter-suspends-prominent-alt-right-accounts/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in November\u003c/a> along with several other alt-right figures. \"To be honest, I don't know what I'm going to do,\" Spencer said in a follow-up \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiADHzBOqZ0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube video\u003c/a>. \"There's obviously Gab, which is an interesting medium. ... I think that will be the place where we go next.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A wave of news stories followed. \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/30/arts/the-far-right-has-a-new-digital-safe-space.html?_r=2&mtrref=undefined\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">described Gab\u003c/a> as \"a digital safe space for the far right.\" A \u003cem>Salon\u003c/em> reporter \u003ca href=\"http://www.salon.com/2016/11/05/inside-the-twitter-for-racists-gab-the-site-where-milo-yiannopoulos-goes-to-troll-now/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">asked Torba\u003c/a> about Gab's logo — a green frog dubbed Gabby: \"I suspected it was a reference to Pepe the frog,\" the reporter wrote, referring to \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/05/11/527590762/what-pepe-the-frogs-death-can-teach-us-about-the-internet\">the Internet cartoon character\u003c/a> that's been associated with the alt-right, neo-Nazis and white nationalists. Torba says the Gab frog is a religious reference, a symbol of exodus and rebirth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, in the fall, Gab was invitation-only. Thousands of people were said to be on the wait-list. \"Gab is less than a month old, so it may well flame out like \u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/2016/01/peach-is-so-hot-right-now-heres-why-the-internets-obsessed-with-it/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Peach\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/2016/05/ello-artists/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ello\u003c/a>,\" \u003cem>Wired's\u003c/em> Emma Grey Ellis wrote in that September feature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, Gab.ai opened to the public. It is funded with users' contributions. In a \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/@getongab/gab-is-now-out-of-beta-testing-with-open-registration-7c406e927116\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">post on Medium\u003c/a> on May 8, Gab leaders shared the latest statistics: \"In under nine months, 170,000 Gabbers have 7.6 million posts and raised $145,000 to help us expand our team and cover operational expenses.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11471654\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 631px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/compose-post_wide-7a380326a07c6d62376de022141a1e58b41c7cd8.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11471654\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/compose-post_wide-7a380326a07c6d62376de022141a1e58b41c7cd8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"631\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/compose-post_wide-7a380326a07c6d62376de022141a1e58b41c7cd8.jpg 631w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/compose-post_wide-7a380326a07c6d62376de022141a1e58b41c7cd8-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/compose-post_wide-7a380326a07c6d62376de022141a1e58b41c7cd8-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/compose-post_wide-7a380326a07c6d62376de022141a1e58b41c7cd8-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/compose-post_wide-7a380326a07c6d62376de022141a1e58b41c7cd8-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 631px) 100vw, 631px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gab has very few restrictions on what users aren't allowed to post, limited mostly to illegal porn and threats of violence. \u003ccite>(Gab.ai/Screenshot by NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'I want a buffet'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visually, Gab sort of combines some of the features of Twitter, Reddit and Facebook. You can follow people and repost or comment on anything anywhere. Posts are restricted to 300 characters and can be upvoted by the community. Gab has developed an Android app, but Apple has so far rejected the social network from its app store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are permanent categories like \"Cuisine\" or \"Sports\" and sort of trending ones, called \"Live Topics,\" like \"Julian Assange\" or \"Seth Rich\" (\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/05/19/529086029/sweden-drops-rape-case-against-julian-assange\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">both reflecting\u003c/a> the \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/05/17/528804792/unproved-claims-reemerge-around-dnc-staffer-s-death-here-s-what-you-should-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">latest news cycles\u003c/a>). Before Gab got rid of trending hashtags, #MAGA, #gabfam and #Trump were the virtually permanent mainstays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are no bans on hate speech or harassment (and language does fly freely). The users have the option to \"mute\" whatever people or terms they want. In the wild, without muting or following particular people, a random scroll through categories on Gab is a roller-coaster of posts: Some benign ones (a chicken recipe, a prayer in support of President Trump, some links to music clips), then a startling one (a photo of a group of Klansmen, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/leo-frank-case\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Leo Frank\u003c/a> lynching), then back to regular internet lore (a dog video, a \u003cem>Saturday Night Live\u003c/em> skit). Throughout it all, there's a tremendous amount of debate over news, with a heavy dose of conspiracy theories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Even when you have a bunch of people that are anti-politically correct and, you know, 'things were better in the 50s' or whatever the case ... people you might call alt-right, there's a much bigger group of people that aren't that,\" says Ryan Donker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I originally saw him posting in the science topics on Gab and later followed him on Twitter. His online handle is @TruckDrivinRyan — he drives 18-wheelers for a living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As a local driver doing port work, I have a lot of down time. Most of my day is sitting at the port waiting for a box to be taken off or put on,\" Donker says. \"It's times like that when I'll go on the internet, goof off with people, read up on interesting things, get into arguments — whatever I can do to pass the time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donker describes himself as libertarian. He says Trump is better than Hillary Clinton, but he does not always agree with the president. Donker is also openly gay. His partner is an immigrant. On Gab, he says he's faced off with a few haters — but that's what he likes about it: He says here, people are laid bare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know, this social media starts as a place to be free and open and share a bunch of thoughts and ideas all willy-nilly is the way it should be,\" Donker says. \"I don't want you to feed me — I want a buffet, where I can pick what I want. I don't want an algorithm to control my news feed, I want to decide for myself.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11471655\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 904px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/torba_wide-b504ae001b200b9fa25110559371daac6c5227c5.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11471655\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/torba_wide-b504ae001b200b9fa25110559371daac6c5227c5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"904\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/torba_wide-b504ae001b200b9fa25110559371daac6c5227c5.jpg 904w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/torba_wide-b504ae001b200b9fa25110559371daac6c5227c5-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/torba_wide-b504ae001b200b9fa25110559371daac6c5227c5-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/torba_wide-b504ae001b200b9fa25110559371daac6c5227c5-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/torba_wide-b504ae001b200b9fa25110559371daac6c5227c5-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/torba_wide-b504ae001b200b9fa25110559371daac6c5227c5-520x292.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 904px) 100vw, 904px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gab CEO's page on his own social network. \u003ccite>(Gab.ai/Screenshot by NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Conservative exodus from Twitter'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As told by CEO Torba, Gab's birth dates to the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/13/amid-allegations-of-bias-facebook-explains-how-trending-topics-works/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">controversy\u003c/a> over Facebook's sidelining of conservative-leaning topics from the \"Trending\" display.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's when I saw the opportunity to ... step up and defend free speech, defend individual liberty, defend the free flow of information that I saw under attack,\" Torba says in the recent YouTube video, in which he also describes feeling \"like a minority\" in Silicon Valley \"as a conservative, as a Christian, as a straight white male\" in a place that's \"very far-left, very progressive and very liberal-minded.\" (He now lives in Austin.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Craig Combs, a poet and writer from Michigan, says he felt Facebook was dominated by the liberal left. He says his posts there would regularly get removed, which he attributes to censorship. \"It was almost like being thrown into a timeout corner as a child,\" he says. \"I'm 48; I don't need to be treated this way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Combs says he first heard about Gab from David Seaman and other YouTubers as he followed the \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/26/521545788/conspiracy-theorist-alex-jones-apologizes-for-promoting-pizzagate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\"pizzagate\" conspiracy\u003c/a>. (Combs does not believe mainstream fact-checking and news sites that have debunked the rumors and maintains his belief in the story.) 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 7:45 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Justice Department is appointing former FBI Director Robert Mueller as a special counsel to oversee the growing probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election and possible ties to associates of President Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In my capacity as acting Attorney General, I determined that it is in the public interest for me to exercise my authority and appoint a Special Counsel to assume responsibility for this matter,\" Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My decision is not a finding that crimes have been committed or that any prosecution is warranted. I have made no such determination,\" Rosenstein continued. \"What I have determined is that based upon the unique circumstances, the public interest requires me to place this investigation under the authority of a person who exercises a degree of independence from the normal chain of command.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"wKNIMf5Zvafxe99yRfF41ixDxj53gwUm\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump argued in a statement after the appointment that, \"As I have stated many times, a thorough investigation will confirm what we already know — there was no collusion between my campaign and any foreign entity. I look forward to this matter concluding quickly. In the meantime, I will never stop fighting for the people and the issues that matter most to the future of our country.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The appointment of Mueller -- who is widely respected on both sides of the aisle -- comes after growing outcry, mostly from Democrats, amid fallout of President Trump's \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/james-comey/\" target=\"_blank\">firing of FBI Director James Comey\u003c/a> last week. While the White House initially insisted the dismissal was precipitated by Comey's mishandling of the investigation into Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's emails, Trump later told NBC's Lester Holt that the Russia investigation factored into his decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two sources close to Comey \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/05/16/528679977/trump-asked-comey-to-shut-down-flynn-investigation\">told NPR\u003c/a> that Trump asked Comey to scuttle an investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn the day after he resigned. Flynn stepped down after reports he had misled Vice President Pence about his conversations with the Russian ambassador. The White House denies that Trump made the request to shut down the probe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"XAnBDHWDg0KlBPrvJb37OIJPIqBfqIhu\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Comey associate says Comey wrote a memo after his encounter with the president, and congressional committees investigating the Russia ties have requested to see the memo and other related documentation. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has also asked Comey to testify next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosenstein, deputy attorney general, had the authority to appoint a special counsel since Attorney General Jeff Sessions has recused himself from any part in the investigation. Sessions \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/03/02/518198749/attorney-general-sessions-to-recuse-himself-from-any-trump-campaign-investigatio\">said in March he would step back\u003c/a>, after reports he had met twice with the Russian ambassador during the campaign — contacts he insisted were innocent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As special counsel, Mueller will have full authorization to direct the Russia investigation, including any links or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with Trump's campaign, and any other matters. He can only be fired by Rosenstein, only with cause, and with notice to Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mueller, who preceded Comey at the FBI, had a 12-year stint at the agency after being unanimously confirmed by the Senate in 2001 — just the week before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. His tenure leading the bureau were defined by what he did to adapt to the new threats posed to America by terrorism, and he was asked by President Barack Obama to stay on beyond the typical 10-year term for two additional years, which Congress approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"iaEYNKegCVtCMxyqAPiK5ZniRghsCL7T\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I had been a prosecutor before, so I anticipated spending time on public corruption cases and narcotics cases and bank robberies and the like, and Sept. 11 changed all of that,\" he \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2013/08/23/214549458/outgoing-fbi-boss-on-his-legacy-and-what-kept-him-up-at-night\">told NPR in 2013\u003c/a> as he was stepping down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mueller moved 2,000 agents from criminal investigations into counterterrorism and national security in his time leading the FBI. 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There’s even an “\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Impeach_D_Trump?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\">Impeach Donald Trump” Twitter handle\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is highly unlikely — there’s almost zero chance — Trump would be impeached by a Republican Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/05/16/528679977/trump-asked-comey-to-shut-down-flynn-investigation\">with the revelation \u003c/a>that James Comey, who was fired as FBI director last week, penned a memo after a Valentine’s Day meeting with Trump in which Comey associates say Trump asked him to end the investigation into former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, the “I” word is creeping its way into the mainstream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”cJA3P7J7DITM7XImlv47cUiRuP72FUAN”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked on CNN by Wolf Blitzer after the news broke Tuesday evening whether Trump could face impeachment, Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, said, “Reluctantly, Wolf, I have to say yes simply because obstruction of justice is such a serious offense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He later walked back that statement \u003ca href=\"http://mainepublic.org/post/angus-king-tempers-trump-impeachment-comment#stream/0\">during a conference call\u003c/a> with Maine reporters. “You’re jumping way forward,” King said of the possibility of impeachment. “What we really need to do is get the facts of this situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added, “Before we start talking about obstruction of justice or impeachment, we need to get to the underlying facts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of Democrats starting to use the “I” word is growing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Comey was fired, Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal said, “It may well produce impeachment proceedings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re actually pretty close to considering impeachment,” said Kentucky Rep. John Yarmuth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He has committed an impeachable act and must be charged,” said Rep. Al Green of Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have to be afraid to use the word impeachment,” Rep. Maxine Waters of California \u003ca href=\"http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/333696-waters-we-dont-have-to-think-impeachment-is-out-of-our-reach\">said Tuesday at a conference\u003c/a> of the liberal think tank, the Center for American Progress, in Washington. “We don’t have to think impeachment is out of our reach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/davidaxelrod/status/864609258935111684\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/davidaxelrod/status/864609322214592512\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former top Obama adviser David Axelrod tweeted an hour after \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/us/politics/james-comey-trump-flynn-russia-investigation.html?_r=0\">The New York Times\u003c/a> broke the story of the Comey memo that he’s been “resistant to impeachment talk until now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The White House understands the gravity of what \u003cem>The Times\u003c/em> reported and NPR has confirmed — that in a closed-door meeting, the president allegedly told Comey he thinks Flynn is a good guy and said, “I hope you can let this go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is flatly denying that Trump did this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While the President has repeatedly expressed his view that General Flynn is a decent man who served and protected our country, the president has never asked Mr. Comey or anyone else to end any investigation, including any investigation involving General Flynn,” a White House official said in a statement. “The president has the utmost respect for our law enforcement agencies, and all investigations. This is not a truthful or accurate portrayal of the conversation between the president and Mr. Comey.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The official also noted, accurately, that “Deputy Director McCabe said in his testimony last week that the WH had not interfered with any investigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This White House has tried to spin its way out of a lot — from things as small as the president’s inauguration crowd size to as big as whether the president leaked classified information to the Russians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”Z93mCV225f7m86AXLXugOKNMV5E0zuHr”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this flat denial is drawing a bright line in the sand. The White House understands that this is very serious and, if true, could have huge consequences for the Trump presidency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So there are still a ton of questions to be asked. The White House press briefing has already been must-see TV and will continue to be, but the questions with teeth need to come from Congress. And a lot has to happen — and a lot of facts gathered — before anyone gets down the road to impeachment:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. The memo has to be produced. \u003c/strong>Right now, many Republicans are doubting the veracity of the story. Sen. Richard Burr, the North Carolina Republican in charge of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said Tuesday shortly after \u003cem>The Times\u003c/em> story came out that “the burden is on \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>” to produce the memo. Will he still feel that way in the light of day, especially given the fact that House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz issued a subpoena to the FBI to turn over any Comey memos related to the investigation in one week?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Comey has to testify on the record and in public about the memo and the meeting.\u003c/strong> Even if the memo is produced, Comey will likely be brought before Congress to testify about the encounter. He should be expected to talk about it with the same vivid detail he did \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/15/AR2007051500864.html\">10 years ago yesterday\u003c/a> — interestingly — about the night in March 2004 when he, as deputy attorney general, went to the hospital bed of then-Attorney General John Ashcroft to prevent White House counsel Alberto Gonzales and White House Chief of Staff Andy Card from pressuring Ashcroft to reauthorize the Bush administration’s domestic surveillance program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. There have to be many willing Republicans to go along.\u003c/strong> Even if Comey testified, he’d have to produce damning evidence that would convince Republicans that Trump had obstructed justice and should no longer serve. Grounds for impeachment are ambiguous. \u003ca href=\"https://www.usconstitution.net/xconst_A2Sec4.html\">Article 2, Section 4 of the Constitution\u003c/a> reads:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Impeaching a president takes a majority in the House and two-thirds of the Senate, and Republicans currently control both chambers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Is this obstruction of justice? \u003c/strong>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=76082\">first article of impeachment against Richard Nixon\u003c/a>, who resigned before he could be impeached, read (emphasis ours):\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“In his conduct of the office of President of the United States, Richard M. Nixon, in violation of his constitutional oath faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, has prevented, \u003cstrong>obstructed, and impeded the administration of justice\u003c/strong>….”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”8GygU2HEe88Dfzm5LGjH5wvQ5w7ziuRm”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there is a question, even if the Comey memo is proved to be true, of whether what Trump is alleged to have done meets the legal definition of obstruction of justice. Some legal analysts and professors say yes. “When someone at the White House is telling someone at DOJ or the FBI to soft-pedal or abandon an investigation, that’s when people start talking about obstruction,” University of Texas law professor Stephen Vladeck told \u003ca href=\"http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/16/trump-comey-obstruction-justice-238466\">Politico\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz says maybe not. “If it was a polite request saying, ‘Oh, you know, he’s a good guy, Flynn, I wish you’d back off this thing,’ that’s not an obstruction of justice,” Dershowitz contended on MSNBC on Tuesday. “If it was a command, it would raise stronger problems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He continued, “I just think it’s a very, very high bar to get over obstruction of justice for a president who, in fact, is the head of the unitary executive branch that includes the FBI and the Justice Department.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Impeachment as political weapon\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>To be clear, “impeachment” has been used as a political weapon by angry opponents — some with better cases than others — for a long time. As \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2013/08/27/216156619/impeach-obama-and-fdr-eisenhower-carter-reagan-etc\">Frank James wrote for NPR in 2013\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“[N]ame a modern, non-impeached president and someone probably imagined him being impeached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A Republican congressman from Michigan \u003ca href=\"http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1144&dat=19410626&id=2lgbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Z0wEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4786,3185702\">wanted Franklin Roosevelt impeached\u003c/a>, and he wasn’t alone. Perhaps more fancifully, the poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti wrote a poem titled ‘\u003ca href=\"http://www.tucradio.org/TentativeDescription_Ferlinghetti.pdf\">Tentative Description of a Dinner Given To Promote the Impeachment of President Eisenhower\u003c/a>.’ \u003ca href=\"http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1977/eirv04n19-19770510/eirv04n19-19770510_013-the_impeachment_of_jimmy_carter-lar.pdf\">Jimmy Carter\u003c/a>, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, especially, all inspired more or less serious calls for their impeachment.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Since Bill Clinton’s impeachment by the House (not confirmed by the Senate) and the advent of the internet, the political rhetoric using the “I” word seems to have ramped up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plenty on the left were \u003ca href=\"https://www.thenation.com/article/impeachment-george-w-bush/\">calling for\u003c/a> the impeachment of George W. Bush as the Iraq War was spiraling out of control and there was the revelation that the country had no weapons of mass destruction, despite claims of evidence by the U.S. There were “Impeach Bush” bumper stickers in \u003ca href=\"http://www.cafepress.com/mf/9405700/impeach-bush_bumper-sticker?utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=pla-google&utm_campaign=640265467-d-c&utm_content=27654316810-adid-93474652090&utm_term=pla-72529172410-pid-36714164&productId=36714164\">lots\u003c/a> of \u003ca href=\"http://www.cafepress.com/mf/12651877/impeach-bush_bumper-sticker?utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=pla-google&utm_campaign=640265467-d-c&utm_content=27654316810-adid-93474652090&utm_term=pla-72529172410-pid-58830518&productId=58830518\">different\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=impeach+bush+bumper+sticker&tbm=isch&imgil=VSftstAIPpZXCM%253A%253BQXbeeK8lW0JqaM%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.cafepress.com%25252Firregulargoods.26154391&source=iu&pf=m&fir=VSftstAIPpZXCM%253A%252CQXbeeK8lW0JqaM%252C_&usg=__4IqqW54f8P3X1TA9FQhnZolymrU%3D&biw=1280&bih=894&ved=0ahUKEwjV9NmV3PbTAhWGRyYKHe9aDvcQyjcIqwE&ei=_SUcWZWCO4aPmQHvtbm4Dw#imgrc=VSftstAIPpZXCM:\">forms\u003c/a>. (You can still buy some for \u003ca href=\"http://www.cafepress.com/mf/9455474/impeach-bush_bumper-sticker?utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=pla-google&utm_campaign=640265467-d-c&utm_content=27654316810-adid-93474652090&utm_term=pla-72529172410-pid-37019998&productId=37019998\">$4.99 on Cafe Press\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The calls even came from a New York businessman, who flirted with his own runs for president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was surprised that she [then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi] didn’t do more in terms of Bush and going after Bush. It was almost — it just seemed like she was going to really look to impeach Bush and get him out of office, which, personally, I think would have been a wonderful thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That happened to be Donald J. Trump on \u003ca href=\"http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/feb/16/our-principles-pac/anti-trump-ad-says-he-backed-impeaching-bush/\">CNN with Wolf Blitzer\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blitzer followed up, “Impeaching him?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Absolutely, for the war, for the war,” Trump responded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of the conduct of the war,” Blitzer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, he lied,” Trump responded. “He got us into the war with lies. And, I mean, look at the trouble Bill Clinton got into with something that was totally unimportant. And they tried to impeach him, which was nonsense. And, yet, Bush got us into this horrible war with lies, by lying, by saying they had weapons of mass destruction, by saying all sorts of things that turned out not to be true.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was 2008. Times and opinions change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The calls on the right for Obama’s impeachment were loud as well. There was an \u003ca href=\"http://www.pledgetoimpeach.com/\">Impeach Obama website\u003c/a> that had more than double the petition signers than the Trump one. It urged people to call Congress, gave the Capitol switchboard number and instructed them to “in plain — but \u003cem>polite\u003c/em> — language, demand impeachment and give a reason or two why.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ben Rhodes, Obama’s deputy national security adviser, even admitted to \u003ca href=\"http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/obama-foreign-policy-legacy-ben-rhodes-donald-trump-china-iran-214642\">Michael Crowley in Politico magazine\u003c/a> in January that part of why Obama didn’t act on Syria unilaterally — without Congress’ approval — was fear of impeachment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[W]e had no domestic legal basis. We actually had Congress warning us against taking action without congressional authorization, which we interpreted as the president could face impeachment,” Rhodes said. “That was a factor. Go back and read the letters from [then-House Speaker John] Boehner, letters from the Republican members of Congress. They laid down markers that this would not be constitutional. If we got drawn into a conflict in Syria without congressional authorization, without international authorization, without international support, you can see very clearly how that could have completely derailed this entire presidency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To reiterate, Trump is unlikely to be impeached by a Republican Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if things keep up at this pace — if the Comey memo comes out and he delivers damning testimony — and the GOP still does nothing, not even setting up an independent investigation, you can guarantee that the “I” word would hang all over next year’s midterm elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, as much as in any election, Trump’s presidency would be top of mind for voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2017 NPR. 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This is not a truthful or accurate portrayal of the conversation between the president and Mr. Comey.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The official also noted, accurately, that “Deputy Director McCabe said in his testimony last week that the WH had not interfered with any investigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This White House has tried to spin its way out of a lot — from things as small as the president’s inauguration crowd size to as big as whether the president leaked classified information to the Russians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this flat denial is drawing a bright line in the sand. The White House understands that this is very serious and, if true, could have huge consequences for the Trump presidency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So there are still a ton of questions to be asked. The White House press briefing has already been must-see TV and will continue to be, but the questions with teeth need to come from Congress. And a lot has to happen — and a lot of facts gathered — before anyone gets down the road to impeachment:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. The memo has to be produced. \u003c/strong>Right now, many Republicans are doubting the veracity of the story. Sen. Richard Burr, the North Carolina Republican in charge of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said Tuesday shortly after \u003cem>The Times\u003c/em> story came out that “the burden is on \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>” to produce the memo. Will he still feel that way in the light of day, especially given the fact that House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz issued a subpoena to the FBI to turn over any Comey memos related to the investigation in one week?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Comey has to testify on the record and in public about the memo and the meeting.\u003c/strong> Even if the memo is produced, Comey will likely be brought before Congress to testify about the encounter. He should be expected to talk about it with the same vivid detail he did \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/15/AR2007051500864.html\">10 years ago yesterday\u003c/a> — interestingly — about the night in March 2004 when he, as deputy attorney general, went to the hospital bed of then-Attorney General John Ashcroft to prevent White House counsel Alberto Gonzales and White House Chief of Staff Andy Card from pressuring Ashcroft to reauthorize the Bush administration’s domestic surveillance program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. There have to be many willing Republicans to go along.\u003c/strong> Even if Comey testified, he’d have to produce damning evidence that would convince Republicans that Trump had obstructed justice and should no longer serve. Grounds for impeachment are ambiguous. \u003ca href=\"https://www.usconstitution.net/xconst_A2Sec4.html\">Article 2, Section 4 of the Constitution\u003c/a> reads:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Impeaching a president takes a majority in the House and two-thirds of the Senate, and Republicans currently control both chambers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Is this obstruction of justice? \u003c/strong>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=76082\">first article of impeachment against Richard Nixon\u003c/a>, who resigned before he could be impeached, read (emphasis ours):\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“In his conduct of the office of President of the United States, Richard M. Nixon, in violation of his constitutional oath faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, has prevented, \u003cstrong>obstructed, and impeded the administration of justice\u003c/strong>….”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there is a question, even if the Comey memo is proved to be true, of whether what Trump is alleged to have done meets the legal definition of obstruction of justice. Some legal analysts and professors say yes. “When someone at the White House is telling someone at DOJ or the FBI to soft-pedal or abandon an investigation, that’s when people start talking about obstruction,” University of Texas law professor Stephen Vladeck told \u003ca href=\"http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/16/trump-comey-obstruction-justice-238466\">Politico\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz says maybe not. “If it was a polite request saying, ‘Oh, you know, he’s a good guy, Flynn, I wish you’d back off this thing,’ that’s not an obstruction of justice,” Dershowitz contended on MSNBC on Tuesday. “If it was a command, it would raise stronger problems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He continued, “I just think it’s a very, very high bar to get over obstruction of justice for a president who, in fact, is the head of the unitary executive branch that includes the FBI and the Justice Department.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Impeachment as political weapon\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>To be clear, “impeachment” has been used as a political weapon by angry opponents — some with better cases than others — for a long time. As \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2013/08/27/216156619/impeach-obama-and-fdr-eisenhower-carter-reagan-etc\">Frank James wrote for NPR in 2013\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“[N]ame a modern, non-impeached president and someone probably imagined him being impeached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A Republican congressman from Michigan \u003ca href=\"http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1144&dat=19410626&id=2lgbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Z0wEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4786,3185702\">wanted Franklin Roosevelt impeached\u003c/a>, and he wasn’t alone. Perhaps more fancifully, the poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti wrote a poem titled ‘\u003ca href=\"http://www.tucradio.org/TentativeDescription_Ferlinghetti.pdf\">Tentative Description of a Dinner Given To Promote the Impeachment of President Eisenhower\u003c/a>.’ \u003ca href=\"http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1977/eirv04n19-19770510/eirv04n19-19770510_013-the_impeachment_of_jimmy_carter-lar.pdf\">Jimmy Carter\u003c/a>, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, especially, all inspired more or less serious calls for their impeachment.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Since Bill Clinton’s impeachment by the House (not confirmed by the Senate) and the advent of the internet, the political rhetoric using the “I” word seems to have ramped up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plenty on the left were \u003ca href=\"https://www.thenation.com/article/impeachment-george-w-bush/\">calling for\u003c/a> the impeachment of George W. Bush as the Iraq War was spiraling out of control and there was the revelation that the country had no weapons of mass destruction, despite claims of evidence by the U.S. There were “Impeach Bush” bumper stickers in \u003ca href=\"http://www.cafepress.com/mf/9405700/impeach-bush_bumper-sticker?utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=pla-google&utm_campaign=640265467-d-c&utm_content=27654316810-adid-93474652090&utm_term=pla-72529172410-pid-36714164&productId=36714164\">lots\u003c/a> of \u003ca href=\"http://www.cafepress.com/mf/12651877/impeach-bush_bumper-sticker?utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=pla-google&utm_campaign=640265467-d-c&utm_content=27654316810-adid-93474652090&utm_term=pla-72529172410-pid-58830518&productId=58830518\">different\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=impeach+bush+bumper+sticker&tbm=isch&imgil=VSftstAIPpZXCM%253A%253BQXbeeK8lW0JqaM%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.cafepress.com%25252Firregulargoods.26154391&source=iu&pf=m&fir=VSftstAIPpZXCM%253A%252CQXbeeK8lW0JqaM%252C_&usg=__4IqqW54f8P3X1TA9FQhnZolymrU%3D&biw=1280&bih=894&ved=0ahUKEwjV9NmV3PbTAhWGRyYKHe9aDvcQyjcIqwE&ei=_SUcWZWCO4aPmQHvtbm4Dw#imgrc=VSftstAIPpZXCM:\">forms\u003c/a>. (You can still buy some for \u003ca href=\"http://www.cafepress.com/mf/9455474/impeach-bush_bumper-sticker?utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=pla-google&utm_campaign=640265467-d-c&utm_content=27654316810-adid-93474652090&utm_term=pla-72529172410-pid-37019998&productId=37019998\">$4.99 on Cafe Press\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The calls even came from a New York businessman, who flirted with his own runs for president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was surprised that she [then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi] didn’t do more in terms of Bush and going after Bush. It was almost — it just seemed like she was going to really look to impeach Bush and get him out of office, which, personally, I think would have been a wonderful thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That happened to be Donald J. Trump on \u003ca href=\"http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/feb/16/our-principles-pac/anti-trump-ad-says-he-backed-impeaching-bush/\">CNN with Wolf Blitzer\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blitzer followed up, “Impeaching him?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Absolutely, for the war, for the war,” Trump responded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of the conduct of the war,” Blitzer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, he lied,” Trump responded. “He got us into the war with lies. And, I mean, look at the trouble Bill Clinton got into with something that was totally unimportant. And they tried to impeach him, which was nonsense. And, yet, Bush got us into this horrible war with lies, by lying, by saying they had weapons of mass destruction, by saying all sorts of things that turned out not to be true.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was 2008. Times and opinions change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The calls on the right for Obama’s impeachment were loud as well. There was an \u003ca href=\"http://www.pledgetoimpeach.com/\">Impeach Obama website\u003c/a> that had more than double the petition signers than the Trump one. It urged people to call Congress, gave the Capitol switchboard number and instructed them to “in plain — but \u003cem>polite\u003c/em> — language, demand impeachment and give a reason or two why.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ben Rhodes, Obama’s deputy national security adviser, even admitted to \u003ca href=\"http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/obama-foreign-policy-legacy-ben-rhodes-donald-trump-china-iran-214642\">Michael Crowley in Politico magazine\u003c/a> in January that part of why Obama didn’t act on Syria unilaterally — without Congress’ approval — was fear of impeachment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[W]e had no domestic legal basis. We actually had Congress warning us against taking action without congressional authorization, which we interpreted as the president could face impeachment,” Rhodes said. “That was a factor. Go back and read the letters from [then-House Speaker John] Boehner, letters from the Republican members of Congress. They laid down markers that this would not be constitutional. If we got drawn into a conflict in Syria without congressional authorization, without international authorization, without international support, you can see very clearly how that could have completely derailed this entire presidency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To reiterate, Trump is unlikely to be impeached by a Republican Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if things keep up at this pace — if the Comey memo comes out and he delivers damning testimony — and the GOP still does nothing, not even setting up an independent investigation, you can guarantee that the “I” word would hang all over next year’s midterm elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The legislation is moving under special budget rules known as reconciliation, which means it is not subject to usual filibuster rules and cannot be blocked by the minority party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans ditched the House-passed bill in pursuit of their own legislation, although the two chambers share the broad goals of repealing the ACA's individual mandates and taxes, restricting access to abortion services and overhauling the Medicaid system from an open-ended federal guarantee that covers costs to a system that gives states more flexibility to spend an allotted amount of money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conservatives like Cruz are also laying down what they say is a key marker for whether a bill can pass the Senate: \"Do premiums go up, or do they go down?\" Cruz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. 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Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Bill Cassidy, R-La., have introduced their own health care plan, and they have been prominent voices in the debate, but they were excluded from the health care working group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans were roundly criticized for not including any women in their core group, but the Republican women in the Senate who were asked about the omission said they didn't mind. \"It doesn't bother me, the leaders have the right to choose whoever they wish,\" said Collins. \"It doesn't mean that I'm not going to work on health care.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cassidy and Collins have been moderating voices in the health care debate, and their support or opposition could be critical to Republicans' success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cassidy-Collins proposal would let states keep the ACA, also known as Obamacare, in place if they wanted to, and it leaves in place the ACA's taxes and fees to have revenue streams to pay for their health care overhaul. 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But you sit by her so that she can stage-whisper critiques with a mouth full of potato salad.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>So, technically, the words \"Auntie Maxine\" may never have been strung together by Thomas, but he takes full credit anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's on my business card!\" he bragged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asheya Warren is among Waters' legion of fans, and says the congresswoman's frank style and \"shade\"-throwing skills are what appeal to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's the way she says what she says,\" Warren said. Older women like Waters get a pass to freely speak their minds, added the 30-year-old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once a woman is over 60, she said, \"You're able to say whatever you want to, whenever you want to. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 9:22 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president has fired FBI Director James Comey, who was overseeing an investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 elections and possible ties to the Trump campaign and top aides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The White House pointed to Comey's handling of the probe into Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's private email server while secretary of state as the reason for his dismissal. But Democrats were quick to call the move \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/05/09/527677009/nothing-less-than-nixonian-democrats-react-to-comey-firing\">\"Nixonian,\"\u003c/a> claiming that the decision by President Trump was part of an effort to impede the Justice Department's Russia investigation which, in the view of many leading Capitol Hill Democrats, could now only be managed by a special prosecutor going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"k818C8K6OQZHsKqpY3gDbg9mJLadMcgE\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Today, President Donald J. Trump informed FBI Director James Comey that he has been terminated and removed from office. President Trump acted based on the clear recommendations of both Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Attorney General Jeff Sessions,\" White House press secretary Sean Spicer said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The FBI is one of our Nation's most cherished and respected institutions and today will mark a new beginning for our crown jewel of law enforcement,\" the president said in the statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ComeyLetter]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Russia probe looms over surprise dismissal\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The abrupt decision by the White House brings to an end a tumultuous tenure for the career prosecutor who found himself at the center of controversy about the 2016 election, taking heat from both sides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it also raised questions about the ongoing Russia probe, with Democrats saying the firing was an effort by the White House to derail the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"VaybQVaWkmjLDjl8fmG8g8Mq88CxuJ4E\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The first question the administration has to answer is, 'Why now?'\" said Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. \"If the administration had objections to the way Director Comey handled the Clinton investigation, they had those objections the minute the president got into office. But they didn't fire him then. Why did it happen today?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein does not appoint an independent special prosecutor, every American will rightly suspect that the decision to fire Director Comey was part of a cover-up,\" Schumer continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>FBI Director became a flashpoint in 2016 election\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Comey first made waves in July 2016 when he announced that the FBI was \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/07/05/484785586/fbi-recommends-no-charges-for-hillary-clinton-in-email-server-case\">not recommending any charges\u003c/a> against Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton over her handling of her controversial private server while she was secretary of state during the Obama administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even though there would be no prosecution, Comey's press conference in and of itself was damning, as he declared that Clinton and her staff had been \"extremely careless\" in handling classified data — fodder that Trump and Republicans would use throughout the campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"QV3UFD190E7qSw6JLODT7BMkn9Ph2pvz\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Rosenstein, Trump's deputy attorney general, said in his memorandum to Attorney General Jeff Sessions that those actions were in part what motivated his dismissal:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>\"The Director was wrong to usurp the Attorney General's authority on July 5, 2016, and announce his conclusion that the case should be closed without prosecution. It is not the function of the Director to make such an announcement. At most, the Director should have said the FBI had completed its investigation and presented its findings to federal prosecutors.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>On Twitter last week, Trump \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/859601184285491201\">claimed\u003c/a> that Comey \"was the best thing that ever happened to Hillary Clinton in that he gave her a free pass for many bad deeds!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey again found himself at the center of a political firestorm when less than two weeks before Election Day last year he notified Congress he was re-opening the investigation into Clinton's emails. Clinton \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/05/02/526586505/clinton-blames-2016-loss-on-comey-letter-russian-interference-and-herself\">said last week\u003c/a> she believed that controversial decision contributed to her loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the campaign, Trump \u003ca href=\"http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/332641-flashback-trump-praised-comey-in-october\">said\u003c/a> that Comey's decision to re-open the Clinton investigation \"took a lot of guts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It makes me mildly nauseous to think that we might have had some impact on the election,\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/05/03/526720922/fbi-director-comey-testifies-before-senate-judiciary-committee\">Comey testified\u003c/a> before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week in defending his decision. \"But honestly, it wouldn't change the decision.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"pLfvsQawVlc7vbLyKQB7YtWQGxsQaRXL\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During that same testimony, Comey said that Clinton aide Huma Abedin had forwarded \"hundreds and thousands\" of Clinton's emails, \"some of which contained classified information\" to her then-husband, former Rep. Anthony Weiner, to print out. The discovery of those emails while Weiner was being investigated for possible lewd contact with a minor online is what triggered the re-opening of the Clinton investigation just before Election Day. However, after \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/comeys-testimony-on-huma-abedin-forwarding-emails-was-inaccurate\">ProPublica\u003c/a> reported Comey's testimony had been inaccurate, and that there had only been a \"small number\" of emails forwarded, Comey had to clarify those comments in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2017-05-09%20FBI%20to%20CEG%20-%20Comey%20Testimony%20Supplement.pdf\">letter\u003c/a> to the Senate Judiciary Committee released Tuesday nearly the same time news of his firing began to break in the media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/20/520765159/watch-live-house-hearing-on-russian-attempts-to-interfere-in-u-s-election\">confirmed\u003c/a> earlier this year that the FBI was investigating possible coordination between the Trump campaign and Russian attempts to influence the U.S. presidential election. The president has repeatedly downplayed any investigation, dismissing it as a \"total hoax.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his letter to Comey relieving him of his duties effective immediately, Trump alluded to the ongoing Russia investigation but also stressed that he had not personally been implicated:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>\"While I greatly appreciate you informing me. on three separate occasions. that I am not under investigation, I nevertheless concur with the judgment of the Department of Justice that you are not able to effectively lead the Bureau.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But the ongoing Russia investigation badly complicates Trump's decision to fire Comey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sessions, who recommended Comey's dismissal, had already \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/03/02/518198749/attorney-general-sessions-to-recuse-himself-from-any-trump-campaign-investigatio\">recused himself\u003c/a> from any investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, leaving any inquiry to be led by Rosenstein. The decision by Sessions, who was a top Trump surrogate, came in March after he first testified he had no contact with Russian officials during the campaign but then later clarified that he did twice meet with Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Given that the Attorney General supposedly recused himself from the Russia investigation, he should not have played any role in removing the lead investigator from his duties,\" Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., a senior Judiciary Committee member, said in a statement. \"Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein now has no choice but to appoint a Special Counsel. His integrity, and the integrity of the entire Justice Department, are at stake.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Republicans raise concerns over firing \u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It wasn't just Democrats who were questioning the rapid turn of events. Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr said in a statement that he was \"troubled by the timing and reasoning of Director Comey's termination.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Director Comey has been more forthcoming with information than any FBI Director I can recall in my tenure on the congressional intelligence committees,\" the North Carolina Republican said. \"His dismissal, I believe, is a loss for the Bureau and the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"Kqi3HsmW5cOzCoWr1VYxyQUhM9X8g40b\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The FBI is one of our Nation's most cherished and respected institutions and today will mark a new beginning for our crown jewel of law enforcement,\" the president said in the statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ComeyLetter]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Russia probe looms over surprise dismissal\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The abrupt decision by the White House brings to an end a tumultuous tenure for the career prosecutor who found himself at the center of controversy about the 2016 election, taking heat from both sides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it also raised questions about the ongoing Russia probe, with Democrats saying the firing was an effort by the White House to derail the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The first question the administration has to answer is, 'Why now?'\" said Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. \"If the administration had objections to the way Director Comey handled the Clinton investigation, they had those objections the minute the president got into office. But they didn't fire him then. Why did it happen today?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein does not appoint an independent special prosecutor, every American will rightly suspect that the decision to fire Director Comey was part of a cover-up,\" Schumer continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>FBI Director became a flashpoint in 2016 election\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Comey first made waves in July 2016 when he announced that the FBI was \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/07/05/484785586/fbi-recommends-no-charges-for-hillary-clinton-in-email-server-case\">not recommending any charges\u003c/a> against Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton over her handling of her controversial private server while she was secretary of state during the Obama administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even though there would be no prosecution, Comey's press conference in and of itself was damning, as he declared that Clinton and her staff had been \"extremely careless\" in handling classified data — fodder that Trump and Republicans would use throughout the campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Rosenstein, Trump's deputy attorney general, said in his memorandum to Attorney General Jeff Sessions that those actions were in part what motivated his dismissal:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>\"The Director was wrong to usurp the Attorney General's authority on July 5, 2016, and announce his conclusion that the case should be closed without prosecution. It is not the function of the Director to make such an announcement. At most, the Director should have said the FBI had completed its investigation and presented its findings to federal prosecutors.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>On Twitter last week, Trump \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/859601184285491201\">claimed\u003c/a> that Comey \"was the best thing that ever happened to Hillary Clinton in that he gave her a free pass for many bad deeds!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey again found himself at the center of a political firestorm when less than two weeks before Election Day last year he notified Congress he was re-opening the investigation into Clinton's emails. Clinton \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/05/02/526586505/clinton-blames-2016-loss-on-comey-letter-russian-interference-and-herself\">said last week\u003c/a> she believed that controversial decision contributed to her loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the campaign, Trump \u003ca href=\"http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/332641-flashback-trump-praised-comey-in-october\">said\u003c/a> that Comey's decision to re-open the Clinton investigation \"took a lot of guts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It makes me mildly nauseous to think that we might have had some impact on the election,\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/05/03/526720922/fbi-director-comey-testifies-before-senate-judiciary-committee\">Comey testified\u003c/a> before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week in defending his decision. \"But honestly, it wouldn't change the decision.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During that same testimony, Comey said that Clinton aide Huma Abedin had forwarded \"hundreds and thousands\" of Clinton's emails, \"some of which contained classified information\" to her then-husband, former Rep. 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However, after \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/comeys-testimony-on-huma-abedin-forwarding-emails-was-inaccurate\">ProPublica\u003c/a> reported Comey's testimony had been inaccurate, and that there had only been a \"small number\" of emails forwarded, Comey had to clarify those comments in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2017-05-09%20FBI%20to%20CEG%20-%20Comey%20Testimony%20Supplement.pdf\">letter\u003c/a> to the Senate Judiciary Committee released Tuesday nearly the same time news of his firing began to break in the media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/20/520765159/watch-live-house-hearing-on-russian-attempts-to-interfere-in-u-s-election\">confirmed\u003c/a> earlier this year that the FBI was investigating possible coordination between the Trump campaign and Russian attempts to influence the U.S. presidential election. The president has repeatedly downplayed any investigation, dismissing it as a \"total hoax.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his letter to Comey relieving him of his duties effective immediately, Trump alluded to the ongoing Russia investigation but also stressed that he had not personally been implicated:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>\"While I greatly appreciate you informing me. on three separate occasions. that I am not under investigation, I nevertheless concur with the judgment of the Department of Justice that you are not able to effectively lead the Bureau.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But the ongoing Russia investigation badly complicates Trump's decision to fire Comey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sessions, who recommended Comey's dismissal, had already \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/03/02/518198749/attorney-general-sessions-to-recuse-himself-from-any-trump-campaign-investigatio\">recused himself\u003c/a> from any investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, leaving any inquiry to be led by Rosenstein. The decision by Sessions, who was a top Trump surrogate, came in March after he first testified he had no contact with Russian officials during the campaign but then later clarified that he did twice meet with Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Given that the Attorney General supposedly recused himself from the Russia investigation, he should not have played any role in removing the lead investigator from his duties,\" Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., a senior Judiciary Committee member, said in a statement. \"Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein now has no choice but to appoint a Special Counsel. His integrity, and the integrity of the entire Justice Department, are at stake.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Republicans raise concerns over firing \u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It wasn't just Democrats who were questioning the rapid turn of events. Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr said in a statement that he was \"troubled by the timing and reasoning of Director Comey's termination.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Director Comey has been more forthcoming with information than any FBI Director I can recall in my tenure on the congressional intelligence committees,\" the North Carolina Republican said. \"His dismissal, I believe, is a loss for the Bureau and the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. 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The vote was 217-213.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure moves to the Senate, where its fate is far from certain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After passing the measure, House Republicans jumped on buses for a quick trip to an unusual victory lap event in the White House Rose Garden — given that the measure has a long way before it actually becomes law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”tLBOmNSoftUFhfMXsUMurzLjMnS7I88a”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump promised that premiums and deductibles would be coming down under the GOP plan and said that he feels “confident” the measure will make it through the Senate. “It’s going to be an unbelievable victory when we get it through the Senate,” he added. Trump also praised House Speaker Paul Ryan as “a genius” for engineering Thursday’s legislative win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking after Trump in the Rose Garden, Ryan asserted the GOP bill was “the beginning of the end of Obamacare.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy told lawmakers “finally after years of waiting, we have the chance to do something good today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats accused Republicans of ramming the bill through without fully understanding its provisions or its implications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11440299\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/McCarthy_ModifiedGOP-800x800.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/McCarthy_ModifiedGOP-800x800.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/McCarthy_ModifiedGOP-160x160.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/McCarthy_ModifiedGOP-960x960.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/McCarthy_ModifiedGOP-240x240.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/McCarthy_ModifiedGOP-375x375.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/McCarthy_ModifiedGOP-520x520.png 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/McCarthy_ModifiedGOP-32x32.png 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/McCarthy_ModifiedGOP-50x50.png 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/McCarthy_ModifiedGOP-64x64.png 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/McCarthy_ModifiedGOP-96x96.png 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/McCarthy_ModifiedGOP-128x128.png 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/McCarthy_ModifiedGOP-150x150.png 150w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/McCarthy_ModifiedGOP.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All Republican representatives from California \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/05/04/how-your-california-rep-voted-on-gop-health-care-bill/\" target=\"_blank\">voted for the bill\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill included last-minute amendments designed to draw votes from the most conservative House Republicans in the House Freedom Caucus, as well as from their more moderate counterparts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The changes were necessary after the original bill \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/03/24/521395060/ryan-trump-meet-as-more-republicans-defect-from-health-care-bill\">was pulled\u003c/a> from the floor in March when it became apparent it would not pass. And last week, GOP leaders considered bringing it back, but then \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/04/28/526050474/congress-passes-spending-bill-to-avoid-shutdown-again-punts-on-health-care\">decided not to risk another vote\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”qEVVPcKYRU6s9yEbCbNdQE46SAXieUvA”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican members had their arms twisted by Trump in phone calls, and attended a last-minute pep rally Thursday morning, in which GOP House leaders reportedly told them it was \u003ca href=\"http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2017/05/04/gop-revives-struggling-health-care-bill-and-plans-house-vote.html\">“time to live or die by this day.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure, known as the American Health Care Act, was called “a monstrosity” by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who said centrist Republicans who voted for the bill will have “walked the plank from moderate to radical,” adding “you will glow in the dark,” after voting for the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11440300\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Pelosi_ModifiedBill-800x800.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Pelosi_ModifiedBill-800x800.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Pelosi_ModifiedBill-160x160.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Pelosi_ModifiedBill-960x960.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Pelosi_ModifiedBill-240x240.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Pelosi_ModifiedBill-375x375.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Pelosi_ModifiedBill-520x520.png 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Pelosi_ModifiedBill-32x32.png 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Pelosi_ModifiedBill-50x50.png 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Pelosi_ModifiedBill-64x64.png 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Pelosi_ModifiedBill-96x96.png 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Pelosi_ModifiedBill-128x128.png 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Pelosi_ModifiedBill-150x150.png 150w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Pelosi_ModifiedBill.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nRepublicans appear to have finally gotten their health care bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After seven years of repeal-and-replace rhetoric against the Affordable Care Act, two presidential campaigns waged for and against it and a recent high-profile failure, GOP House leaders say they have the votes for their bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trouble is this bill is likely never to become law — at least in its current iteration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s why: While the bill is expected to pass the House (narrowly) Thursday afternoon, it still has to go to the Senate. It’s being done with a wink and a promise that the Senate will overhaul substantial portions of the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This thing is going to the United States Senate. It’s going to change in my view in the United States Senate in some way,” Rep. Tom Cole of Oklahoma, a deputy whip in the House, told \u003cem>NPR’s Morning Edition\u003c/em>. (He’s one of the people in charge of making sure Republicans have the votes.) “Then we have to have a conference to work out the differences. \u003cem>If\u003c/em> we can do that, then it has to still pass the House and the Senate again before it ever gets to the president. So at some point, you just have to move.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/526833507/526833508\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sure, the Senate is controlled by Republicans, too, but they have an even slimmer majority there with equally fractious divisions. If they lose three votes, the bill goes down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas has been doing a delicate dance on Medicaid expansion. His state took federal money to expand Medicaid, but he’s called it a “welfare program” and said “\u003ca href=\"http://www.mediaite.com/online/gop-senator-republican-healthcare-plan-is-not-going-to-work-to-bring-down-premiums/\">able-bodied adults\u003c/a>” shouldn’t be on it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After an angry town hall, he changed his tune, saying the House bill was “\u003ca href=\"https://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2017/04/18/tom-cottons-obamacare-repeal-dance\">moving too fast; I didn’t think it got it right\u003c/a>.” He also has indicated he’s against it in its current form because, “I simply think that it’s not going to work to bring down premiums for working Arkansans or working Americans around the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other senators, like Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine, Bob Corker of Tennessee, Rob Portman of Ohio and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, are in favor of repeal, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.corker.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2017/1/senators-introduce-amendment-to-improve-process-for-repealing-and-replacing-health-care-law-in-timely-fashion\">want something “stable” \u003c/a>to replace it. They have indicated that affordability, coverage and rural access (like what the bill means for rural hospitals) are key.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is going to allow amendments. That means the bill will change. And if even a comma is inserted, it has to pass the House — again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that is inevitably going to bring back this whole game of whack-a-mole in the House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exhausted yet?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wait, there’s more. Because Democrats aren’t going to sign onto something that guts the coverage mandates of the Affordable Care Act, Republicans can’t get 60 votes to advance the legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”VajiqRclxG7Eyq4VufiI3TOZ6hfrnGMq”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So in order to pass it, they’re going to have to use the process known as \u003cstrong>reconciliation\u003c/strong>. That allows legislation to pass with just a majority (plus one). But there’s a catch — it has to be tied to the budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Get ready to hear a whole lot more about the \u003cstrong>“Byrd Rule.”\u003c/strong> What’s that? The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget \u003ca href=\"http://www.crfb.org/blogs/byrd-rule-and-its-effect-health-reform-short-guide\">explains it this way\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“Although reconciliation bills are granted many privileges that are not available to most other legislation (see Reconciliation 101), they remain bound by several conditions. Some of these restrictions championed by former Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) and established in Section 313 of the Budget Act are jointly referred to as the ‘Byrd Rule.’ The Byrd Rule disallows “extraneous matter” from being included in a reconciliation bill, extraneous matter being defined in three major categories of restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“First, reconciliation legislation must only involve budget-related changes and cannot include policies that have no fiscal impact, that have ‘merely incidental’ fiscal impacts, or that increase the deficit if the committee did not follow its reconciliation instructions (including proposals outside of a committee’s proper jurisdiction—more on this below). Second, reconciliation bills cannot change Social Security spending or dedicated revenue, which are considered ‘off-budget.’ And finally, provisions in a reconciliation bill cannot increase the deficit in any fiscal year after the window of the reconciliation bill (usually ten years in the future) unless the costs outside the budget window are offset by other savings in the bill.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The umpire of what qualifies under the Byrd Rule is the \u003cstrong>Senate parliamentarian\u003c/strong>. Her name is Elizabeth MacDonough. \u003ca href=\"http://www.politico.com/story/2015/01/senate-parliamentarian-elizabeth-macdonough-obamacare-114274\">Politico\u003c/a> wrote of her in 2015:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“[S]he may very well be the most powerful person in Washington in determining how far Republicans can go in trying to repeal Obamacare. As the Senate parliamentarian, MacDonough will make the decisions on which pieces of the law qualify to be repealed using a complicated budget procedure called reconciliation. Her decisions would allow Senate Republicans to vote to kill major provisions of the health care law under a simple 51-vote majority without giving Democrats a chance to filibuster.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>MacDonough was appointed in 2012, and even though she’s liked on Capitol Hill by both sides, past parliamentarians (\u003ca href=\"http://www.politico.com/story/2012/02/new-parliamentarian-knows-her-way-around-072526\">known colloquially on the Hill as “parls”\u003c/a>) have come under fire because the majority party didn’t like how they ruled. \u003ca href=\"http://www.politico.com/story/2015/01/senate-parliamentarian-elizabeth-macdonough-obamacare-114274\">More from Politico\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“Republicans protested decisions by then-parliamentarian Alan Frumin in the 2010 health care reform fight, when Democrats used the budget fast-track tool to pass a small part of the Affordable Care Act. In 2001, Republicans fired Robert Dove as parliamentarian after he ruled against them on how many reconciliation bills could be used. That was actually his second stint in the job: Democrats had fired Dove when they took the majority in 1987.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Reconciliation — and what fits and doesn’t fit into it — isn’t the GOP’s only complication. Their biggest one is the policy itself. It has a lot of shortcomings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nonpartisan \u003cstrong>Congressional Budget Office\u003c/strong> said of the last iteration of the House bill that it would save money but would leave some 24 million without insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the GOP bill would be less generous in terms of benefits and cover fewer. And the only reason it would save money is because the repeal bill would \u003ca href=\"http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/trump-obamacare-promises-236021\">cut $880 billion from Medicaid\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would break Trump’s promises of “insurance for everybody” and “no cuts to Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CBO won’t get out an analysis of the bill before Republicans are planning to vote. Politically, that gives them a chance to wipe their brows and not have to defend something that could be difficult to defend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s morally questionable, though, to vote on something without knowing its cost or consequences. And what happens when the CBO score does come out — and they’ve already voted for it without the opportunity to make changes?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there’s the issue of the popular \u003cstrong>pre-existing conditions\u003c/strong> provision in Obamacare — that requires insurance companies to cover people with pre-existing conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump claimed as late as this week that this bill would guarantee people with pre-existing conditions would continue to be covered. But Republicans’ attempts at doing that are very different from how Obamacare achieves it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The GOP plan would essentially allow states to take sicker people out of the broader pool of people buying coverage and put them into a “high-risk pool.” That, in theory, would bring down the cost of insurance for healthier people, but drive up the cost for the sick. Depending upon how much costs increase, that could shut some or many of the people who definitely need health care out of the insurance market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>High-risk pools \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/02/03/513311344/republicans-consider-restoring-high-risk-pools-in-obamacare-replacement\">haven’t shown great results\u003c/a> where they have been currently implemented. Part of the problem has been funding. That’s why Trump picked up two more votes with a proposal for $8 billion more for those pools, but experts say that’s not even likely enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”eunRwEXPkmqidH6LoEqaj64hk4ZeBZMv”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. government already has very high-profile high-risk pools, Medicare and Medicaid. Medicare, health care for the elderly, is popular but expensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A big point of Obamacare was to not go down that potentially problematic funding lane. Healthier people might pay a little more, but if you got sick, it wouldn’t bankrupt you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why the rush to get this through if it has all these holes and it may not be what eventually becomes law anyway? Politics. The House finally has a chance to tell its base it did something, it passed \u003cem>something\u003c/em> to repeal and replace Obamacare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The House goes on recess next week, and Republicans want to get this done and hand Trump a win before then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a huge relief for House Speaker Paul Ryan, who was feeling the heat of not being able to govern House Republicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a huge relief for Trump, who has been made to look ineffectual with no legislative wins to speak of in his first 100 days and little other major accomplishments in that time — despite Republicans being in charge of the White House, the House and Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But remember, the GOP plan that failed previously had just a \u003ca href=\"https://poll.qu.edu/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=2443\">17 percent approval rating\u003c/a>. And, policywise, it hasn’t changed all that much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Obama ran into a similar problem — health care is very difficult to message about but very easy to poke holes in. And Democrats lost control of the House in 2010 because of health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the Affordable Care Act, Obama’s signature legislative achievement, has had a resurgence in public opinion. Gallup found approval of the ACA at 55 percent this month, the first time it’s ever reached a majority in the poll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/858659215451271168\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Trump says the GOP bill can’t be compared to the ACA “because Obamacare is dead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First of all, that’s not true. The last CBO analysis of the ACA said it’s not in a death spiral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Second, anything that comes after Obamacare has to be compared to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s that you say, health care \u003cem>and\u003c/em> legislating are complicated? Yes, they are, and there’s still a long way to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=GOP+Expected+To+Pass+Its+Health+Care+Bill+At+Long+Last%2C+But+Still+A+Long+Way+To+Go&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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And last week, GOP leaders considered bringing it back, but then \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/04/28/526050474/congress-passes-spending-bill-to-avoid-shutdown-again-punts-on-health-care\">decided not to risk another vote\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican members had their arms twisted by Trump in phone calls, and attended a last-minute pep rally Thursday morning, in which GOP House leaders reportedly told them it was \u003ca href=\"http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2017/05/04/gop-revives-struggling-health-care-bill-and-plans-house-vote.html\">“time to live or die by this day.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure, known as the American Health Care Act, was called “a monstrosity” by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who said centrist Republicans who voted for the bill will have “walked the plank from moderate to radical,” adding “you will glow in the dark,” after voting for the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11440300\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Pelosi_ModifiedBill-800x800.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Pelosi_ModifiedBill-800x800.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Pelosi_ModifiedBill-160x160.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Pelosi_ModifiedBill-960x960.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Pelosi_ModifiedBill-240x240.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Pelosi_ModifiedBill-375x375.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Pelosi_ModifiedBill-520x520.png 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Pelosi_ModifiedBill-32x32.png 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Pelosi_ModifiedBill-50x50.png 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Pelosi_ModifiedBill-64x64.png 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Pelosi_ModifiedBill-96x96.png 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Pelosi_ModifiedBill-128x128.png 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Pelosi_ModifiedBill-150x150.png 150w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Pelosi_ModifiedBill.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nRepublicans appear to have finally gotten their health care bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After seven years of repeal-and-replace rhetoric against the Affordable Care Act, two presidential campaigns waged for and against it and a recent high-profile failure, GOP House leaders say they have the votes for their bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trouble is this bill is likely never to become law — at least in its current iteration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s why: While the bill is expected to pass the House (narrowly) Thursday afternoon, it still has to go to the Senate. It’s being done with a wink and a promise that the Senate will overhaul substantial portions of the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This thing is going to the United States Senate. It’s going to change in my view in the United States Senate in some way,” Rep. Tom Cole of Oklahoma, a deputy whip in the House, told \u003cem>NPR’s Morning Edition\u003c/em>. (He’s one of the people in charge of making sure Republicans have the votes.) “Then we have to have a conference to work out the differences. \u003cem>If\u003c/em> we can do that, then it has to still pass the House and the Senate again before it ever gets to the president. So at some point, you just have to move.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/526833507/526833508\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sure, the Senate is controlled by Republicans, too, but they have an even slimmer majority there with equally fractious divisions. If they lose three votes, the bill goes down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas has been doing a delicate dance on Medicaid expansion. His state took federal money to expand Medicaid, but he’s called it a “welfare program” and said “\u003ca href=\"http://www.mediaite.com/online/gop-senator-republican-healthcare-plan-is-not-going-to-work-to-bring-down-premiums/\">able-bodied adults\u003c/a>” shouldn’t be on it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After an angry town hall, he changed his tune, saying the House bill was “\u003ca href=\"https://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2017/04/18/tom-cottons-obamacare-repeal-dance\">moving too fast; I didn’t think it got it right\u003c/a>.” He also has indicated he’s against it in its current form because, “I simply think that it’s not going to work to bring down premiums for working Arkansans or working Americans around the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other senators, like Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine, Bob Corker of Tennessee, Rob Portman of Ohio and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, are in favor of repeal, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.corker.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2017/1/senators-introduce-amendment-to-improve-process-for-repealing-and-replacing-health-care-law-in-timely-fashion\">want something “stable” \u003c/a>to replace it. They have indicated that affordability, coverage and rural access (like what the bill means for rural hospitals) are key.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is going to allow amendments. That means the bill will change. And if even a comma is inserted, it has to pass the House — again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that is inevitably going to bring back this whole game of whack-a-mole in the House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exhausted yet?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wait, there’s more. Because Democrats aren’t going to sign onto something that guts the coverage mandates of the Affordable Care Act, Republicans can’t get 60 votes to advance the legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So in order to pass it, they’re going to have to use the process known as \u003cstrong>reconciliation\u003c/strong>. That allows legislation to pass with just a majority (plus one). But there’s a catch — it has to be tied to the budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Get ready to hear a whole lot more about the \u003cstrong>“Byrd Rule.”\u003c/strong> What’s that? The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget \u003ca href=\"http://www.crfb.org/blogs/byrd-rule-and-its-effect-health-reform-short-guide\">explains it this way\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“Although reconciliation bills are granted many privileges that are not available to most other legislation (see Reconciliation 101), they remain bound by several conditions. Some of these restrictions championed by former Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) and established in Section 313 of the Budget Act are jointly referred to as the ‘Byrd Rule.’ The Byrd Rule disallows “extraneous matter” from being included in a reconciliation bill, extraneous matter being defined in three major categories of restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“First, reconciliation legislation must only involve budget-related changes and cannot include policies that have no fiscal impact, that have ‘merely incidental’ fiscal impacts, or that increase the deficit if the committee did not follow its reconciliation instructions (including proposals outside of a committee’s proper jurisdiction—more on this below). Second, reconciliation bills cannot change Social Security spending or dedicated revenue, which are considered ‘off-budget.’ And finally, provisions in a reconciliation bill cannot increase the deficit in any fiscal year after the window of the reconciliation bill (usually ten years in the future) unless the costs outside the budget window are offset by other savings in the bill.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The umpire of what qualifies under the Byrd Rule is the \u003cstrong>Senate parliamentarian\u003c/strong>. Her name is Elizabeth MacDonough. \u003ca href=\"http://www.politico.com/story/2015/01/senate-parliamentarian-elizabeth-macdonough-obamacare-114274\">Politico\u003c/a> wrote of her in 2015:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“[S]he may very well be the most powerful person in Washington in determining how far Republicans can go in trying to repeal Obamacare. As the Senate parliamentarian, MacDonough will make the decisions on which pieces of the law qualify to be repealed using a complicated budget procedure called reconciliation. Her decisions would allow Senate Republicans to vote to kill major provisions of the health care law under a simple 51-vote majority without giving Democrats a chance to filibuster.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>MacDonough was appointed in 2012, and even though she’s liked on Capitol Hill by both sides, past parliamentarians (\u003ca href=\"http://www.politico.com/story/2012/02/new-parliamentarian-knows-her-way-around-072526\">known colloquially on the Hill as “parls”\u003c/a>) have come under fire because the majority party didn’t like how they ruled. \u003ca href=\"http://www.politico.com/story/2015/01/senate-parliamentarian-elizabeth-macdonough-obamacare-114274\">More from Politico\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“Republicans protested decisions by then-parliamentarian Alan Frumin in the 2010 health care reform fight, when Democrats used the budget fast-track tool to pass a small part of the Affordable Care Act. In 2001, Republicans fired Robert Dove as parliamentarian after he ruled against them on how many reconciliation bills could be used. That was actually his second stint in the job: Democrats had fired Dove when they took the majority in 1987.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Reconciliation — and what fits and doesn’t fit into it — isn’t the GOP’s only complication. Their biggest one is the policy itself. It has a lot of shortcomings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nonpartisan \u003cstrong>Congressional Budget Office\u003c/strong> said of the last iteration of the House bill that it would save money but would leave some 24 million without insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the GOP bill would be less generous in terms of benefits and cover fewer. And the only reason it would save money is because the repeal bill would \u003ca href=\"http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/trump-obamacare-promises-236021\">cut $880 billion from Medicaid\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would break Trump’s promises of “insurance for everybody” and “no cuts to Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CBO won’t get out an analysis of the bill before Republicans are planning to vote. Politically, that gives them a chance to wipe their brows and not have to defend something that could be difficult to defend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s morally questionable, though, to vote on something without knowing its cost or consequences. And what happens when the CBO score does come out — and they’ve already voted for it without the opportunity to make changes?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there’s the issue of the popular \u003cstrong>pre-existing conditions\u003c/strong> provision in Obamacare — that requires insurance companies to cover people with pre-existing conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump claimed as late as this week that this bill would guarantee people with pre-existing conditions would continue to be covered. But Republicans’ attempts at doing that are very different from how Obamacare achieves it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The GOP plan would essentially allow states to take sicker people out of the broader pool of people buying coverage and put them into a “high-risk pool.” That, in theory, would bring down the cost of insurance for healthier people, but drive up the cost for the sick. Depending upon how much costs increase, that could shut some or many of the people who definitely need health care out of the insurance market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>High-risk pools \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/02/03/513311344/republicans-consider-restoring-high-risk-pools-in-obamacare-replacement\">haven’t shown great results\u003c/a> where they have been currently implemented. Part of the problem has been funding. That’s why Trump picked up two more votes with a proposal for $8 billion more for those pools, but experts say that’s not even likely enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. government already has very high-profile high-risk pools, Medicare and Medicaid. Medicare, health care for the elderly, is popular but expensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A big point of Obamacare was to not go down that potentially problematic funding lane. Healthier people might pay a little more, but if you got sick, it wouldn’t bankrupt you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why the rush to get this through if it has all these holes and it may not be what eventually becomes law anyway? Politics. The House finally has a chance to tell its base it did something, it passed \u003cem>something\u003c/em> to repeal and replace Obamacare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The House goes on recess next week, and Republicans want to get this done and hand Trump a win before then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a huge relief for House Speaker Paul Ryan, who was feeling the heat of not being able to govern House Republicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a huge relief for Trump, who has been made to look ineffectual with no legislative wins to speak of in his first 100 days and little other major accomplishments in that time — despite Republicans being in charge of the White House, the House and Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But remember, the GOP plan that failed previously had just a \u003ca href=\"https://poll.qu.edu/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=2443\">17 percent approval rating\u003c/a>. 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