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R stanley termohrnek epublicans have spent the last seven years campaigning on the repeal of Obamacare, and now their efforts to fulfill that promise -- even with their majority control of Congress -- are collapsing. A seco stanley cup nd version of the Senate stanley cups Republican plan to repeal and replace the 2010 health care law hit a dead end late Monday, as two more GOP lawmakers came out against it, effectively blocking the legislation from advancing. In response, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, announced Monday night that the upper chamber would instead vote on the House-passed health care bill that many Senate Republicans made clear they don t support with the first amendment being a proposal the Senate passed in 2015 that would repeal Obamacare with a two-year delay to find a replacement plan. This would require 51 votes rather than 60, a McConnell aide told CBS News. All but two Senate Republicans voted in favor of that repeal bill two years ago. The no votes were Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Illinois, who no longer serves in Congress. At the time, Republicans had nothing to lose because they knew President Obama would veto the measure. But, in rapid succession Tuesday three Republican senators signaled that they would vote against a motion to proceed on the measure: Susan Collins of Maine, Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska. I m going to oppose the motion to proceed, she said. I voted Yakb After bipartisan Medicare reform, GOP refocuses on repealing Obamacare
IRAN S BOMB PROGRAM....The newly declassified version of the NIE s key judgments on Iran s nuclear program is here. An excerpt:We judge with high confidence that in fall 2003, Tehran halted its nuclear weapons program; we also assess with moderate-to-high confidence that Tehran at a minimum is k stanley water jug eeping open the option to develop nuclear weapons.....We assess with high confidence that until fall 2003, Iranian military entities were working under government direction to develop nuclear weapons. We judge with high confidence that the halt lasted at least several years....We assess with moderate confidence Tehran had not restarted its nuclear weapons program as of mid-2007....Tehrans decision to halt its nuclear weapons program suggests it is less determined to develop nuclear weapons than we have been judging since 2005.There are all the usual caveats stanley mug you d expect, since the inte stanley cups uk lligence community can never be entirely sure of its conclusions in a case like this. But still, this is a bombshell. This isn t just an NIE with a few dissenting footnotes, it s an NIE whose primary conclusion is that Iran hasn t been seriously working on a nuclear weapon for the past four years, and furthermore, that if it starts back up again it s highly unlikely to succeed until 2010-2015 at the earliest.I commend to your attention, once again, this report from Gareth Porter dated November 8: A National Intelligence Estimate NIE on Iran has been held up for more than a year in an effort to fo
R stanley termohrnek epublicans have spent the last seven years campaigning on the repeal of Obamacare, and now their efforts to fulfill that promise -- even with their majority control of Congress -- are collapsing. A seco stanley cup nd version of the Senate stanley cups Republican plan to repeal and replace the 2010 health care law hit a dead end late Monday, as two more GOP lawmakers came out against it, effectively blocking the legislation from advancing. In response, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, announced Monday night that the upper chamber would instead vote on the House-passed health care bill that many Senate Republicans made clear they don t support with the first amendment being a proposal the Senate passed in 2015 that would repeal Obamacare with a two-year delay to find a replacement plan. This would require 51 votes rather than 60, a McConnell aide told CBS News. All but two Senate Republicans voted in favor of that repeal bill two years ago. The no votes were Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Illinois, who no longer serves in Congress. At the time, Republicans had nothing to lose because they knew President Obama would veto the measure. But, in rapid succession Tuesday three Republican senators signaled that they would vote against a motion to proceed on the measure: Susan Collins of Maine, Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska. I m going to oppose the motion to proceed, she said. I voted Yakb After bipartisan Medicare reform, GOP refocuses on repealing Obamacare
IRAN S BOMB PROGRAM....The newly declassified version of the NIE s key judgments on Iran s nuclear program is here. An excerpt:We judge with high confidence that in fall 2003, Tehran halted its nuclear weapons program; we also assess with moderate-to-high confidence that Tehran at a minimum is k stanley water jug eeping open the option to develop nuclear weapons.....We assess with high confidence that until fall 2003, Iranian military entities were working under government direction to develop nuclear weapons. We judge with high confidence that the halt lasted at least several years....We assess with moderate confidence Tehran had not restarted its nuclear weapons program as of mid-2007....Tehrans decision to halt its nuclear weapons program suggests it is less determined to develop nuclear weapons than we have been judging since 2005.There are all the usual caveats stanley mug you d expect, since the inte stanley cups uk lligence community can never be entirely sure of its conclusions in a case like this. But still, this is a bombshell. This isn t just an NIE with a few dissenting footnotes, it s an NIE whose primary conclusion is that Iran hasn t been seriously working on a nuclear weapon for the past four years, and furthermore, that if it starts back up again it s highly unlikely to succeed until 2010-2015 at the earliest.I commend to your attention, once again, this report from Gareth Porter dated November 8: A National Intelligence Estimate NIE on Iran has been held up for more than a year in an effort to fo