Lawmakers grapple with HF 517 gun bill provisions
Iowa legislators debated HF 517 focusing on reasonable use of force and deadly force for self defense. Rep Mary Wolfe offered an amendment clarifying property defense and deadly force limits. Critics warned against arming minors and allowing weapons in public facilities, while Windschitl pushed for constitutional carry and future rights expansion.
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Mary Wolfe
Clinton
Wolfe
Mary Mascher
Iowa City
Ras Smith
D-Waterloo
David Heaton
Mount Pleasant
Heaton
State Board of Regents
Windschitl
Iowa Firearms Coalition
Capitol
West Side Rising memorial plaza planned along Cedar River
A quarter acre plaza along O Avenue NW east of Ellis Boulevard NW would center West Side Rising a 26 foot sculpture honoring Cedar Rapids 2008 flood survivors. Residents favor a circular design with benches and landscaping while fundraising surpasses two thirds of a $300000 goal. construction hoped by June 2018.
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Cedar River
O Avenue NW
Ellis Boulevard NW
Skelton
Sue Wesely
Ashe
Desolat
al Pierson
Pierson
Fleer Shop
Ellis Blvd
Raisit
Jennifer Pratt
Shire Hattery
O Avenue
Keith Billick
West Side Rising
Billick
West Side
Ann Poe
Cedar Rapids
Pratt
Northwest Neighborhood Association
Northwest Recreation Center
Liz Martin
the Gazette
House plan reshapes Medicaid and marketplace rules
The proposal would cap federal Medicaid funding starting 2020 and replace enrollment-driven aid with fixed per capita payments, risking reduced coverage for poor adults. It largely preserves Obamacare marketplace requirements such as essential benefits and no lifetime limits while raising the old-age premium multiplier from three to five for older consumers. Subsidies would shift to age based tax credits for uninsured individuals, possibly leaving low income buyers with insufficient aid. Tax changes would scrap new Obamacare taxes, delivering broader tax cuts to high earners and industry, while moderating device maker and insurer levies.
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Obamacare
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House
Cally
Conservatives Attack Plan to Repeal Obamacare
House Republicans unveil a draft to replace Obamacare drawing sharp early backlash from conservatives led by Rand Paul who call it Obamacare lite. Critics from Heritage Action Club for Growth FreedomWorks and Cato label it a welfare entitlement and warn of a train wreck.
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Paul Ryan
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White House
Health and Human Services
Tom Price
Rand Paul
Heritage Action
The
Club For Growth
FreedomWorks
Libertarian
Cato Institute
Michael Cannon
Cato
Energy and Commerce
Greg Walden
Ways and
Kevin Brady
Ryan
Walden
Brady
Paul
Conservative House Freedom Caucus
Bloomberg TV
Mike Lee
Utah
U.S. House
Republican Study Committee
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