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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks to members of the media outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington after attending President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump speaking on the opioid crisis, Thursday, Oct. 26, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

WH opioids panel approves final report

The U.S. should block-grant funding to the states to combat the prescription drug and heroin epidemic, expand the use of drugs to treat addiction and crack down on traffickers of deadly synthetics like fentanyl, the White House's opioids commission said Wednesday in its final report.

November 1, 2017
In this photo taken May 17, 2017, Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., ranking member on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Cummings has asked a business partner of the Trump administration’s former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, for documents detailing Flynn’s foreign contacts and security clearance, according to a letter released Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Democrats devise health care plans for 2018

Congressional Democrats are rolling out bills to patch holes in Obamacare and expand the federal footprint in health care, saying they want to have options ready to go if they win majorities in Congress next year.

October 31, 2017
In this Aug. 9, 2016, file photo, a bag of 4-fluoro isobutyryl fentanyl which was seized in a drug raid is displayed at the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Testing and Research Laboratory in Sterling, Va. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

Federal agents vow to hit the ground running after opioids declaration

Federal officials fanned across the country Friday to spotlight President Trump's decision to declare opioid addiction a public health emergency, vowing to disrupt narcotics networks and the "dark web" marketplace where anyone with a computer can buy deadly drugs from China and Mexico.

October 27, 2017
President Trump signs an executive order ending government subsidy payments to insurance companies under Obamacare, a program never approved by Congress, on Oct. 12, 2017. (Associated Press)

Federal judge denies Dem AG’s request to force Obamacare payments

A federal judge in California refused a request by Democratic attorneys general Wednesday to resume critical Obamacare payments, forcing the issue squarely into Congress's lap as GOP leaders and President Trump decide whether to back a bipartisan bill that approves the money for two more years.

October 25, 2017
U.S. Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., speaks during a "Here to Stay" rally at the Irish Famine Memorial in Boston, Thursday, July 6, 2017. Immigration activists and labor groups gathered in Boston in opposition to President Donald Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Senate Democrats seek $45B in opioids funding

Senate Democrats introduced a bill Wednesday seeking $45 billion to combat the opioids epidemic, laying down their marker for new resources before President Trump outlines his strategy for coping with the crisis.

October 25, 2017
A study says opioids can be prescribed safely for five days to as long as two weeks for certain medical procedures. (Associated Press/File)

House GOP threatens to subpoena DEA for opioid data

House lawmakers threatened to subpoena the Drug Enforcement Administration on Wednesday, saying their patience is "wearing thin" as they seek information about who supplied millions of pain pills to hard-hit West Virginia.

October 25, 2017
Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., speaks to reporters as he heads to vote on budget amendments, Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

CBO says Obamacare-payment deal would save nearly $4 billion

A bipartisan bill to stabilize Obamacare's markets would save taxpayers nearly $4 billion through 2027 and have an insignificant impact on the number of people who hold health insurance, the Congressional Budget Office and Joint Committee on Taxation said Wednesday.

October 25, 2017
U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, center, address reporters after holding a news conference with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, denouncing a tax overhaul plan from Republicans and called on the state's GOP lawmakers to reject it Monday, Oct. 23, 2017, in Bethlehem, N.Y. (AP Photo/David Klepper)

Chuck Schumer begs Trump to back Obamacare deal

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer begged President Trump Monday to endorse a bipartisan deal to stabilize Obamacare's markets, saying the bill "has the necessary 60 votes" to pass without hiccups after every Democrat and a dozen Senate Republicans rallied to it.

October 23, 2017
Protesters participate in a demonstration in front of the Supreme Court in Washington on March 25, 2015, as the court heard oral arguments in the challenges of President Barack Obama's health care law requirement that businesses provide their female employees with health insurance that includes access to contraceptives. (Associated Press) **FILE**

DOJ says it’s settled ‘contraception mandate’ cases

The Trump administration announced Monday it has settled dozens of lawsuits that Catholic universities, charities and others filed over President Obama's "contraception mandate," as it defuses a years-long legal saga that had reached the Supreme Court.

October 23, 2017
This Sept. 22, 2017 file photo shows Maine Gov. Paul LePage attending a meeting with Vice President Mike Pence to discuss health care and tax reform in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House Complex in Washington. LePage says the media fanned the flames in a flap with sheriffs over his directive they should hold immigrants without warrants and is calling news organizations "the most horrible organizations on the earth." The outburst came Monday, Oct. 16, 2017 after he summoned all 16 sheriffs to a closed-door meeting. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) — FILE

Obamacare subsidies put directly to Maine voters

Maine voters will decide in November whether to expand their Medicaid rolls under Obamacare, offering a major test of the public's appetite for government-funded insurance as Congress decides whether to rein in or build on the 2010 law that swelled the federal footprint in health care.

October 22, 2017
Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, talks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2017. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Senators announce 24 cosponsors for Obamacare deal

Two dozen senators -- half Republican, half Democrat -- signed onto a Senate plan Thursday to resume critical Obamacare payments and empower governors to experiment with the 2010 health law.

October 19, 2017
President Donald Trump looks down at his podium during a news conference with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Donald Trump criticizes Obamacare deal he supported one day ago

President Trump on Wednesday backed off his support for a bipartisan deal to restore critical Obamacare payments, dealing a major blow to the effort just a day after he praised the compromise that a key senator said the president himself had "engineered."

October 18, 2017