Tag: Robert King

The bill includes funding for President Obama's medical research initiatives, including $1.8 billion for the cancer moonshot, which seeks to conduct 10 years worth of cancer research in five. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

White House backs Cures bill

Robert King · November 30, 2016 2:12 am

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said Tuesday he objected to a provision in a major medical research package that would have weakened the Sunshine Act, which discloses payments to doctors and healthcare companies. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Measure weakening transparency law dropped from Cures bill

Robert King · November 29, 2016 11:55 pm

Birth control mandate opponents cheer Price pick

Birth control mandate opponents cheer Price pick

Robert King · November 29, 2016 7:13 pm

Anti-abortion groups hope Tom Price will work to defund Planned Parenthood. (AP Photo/Alex Washburn)

Abortion foes square off over HHS pick

Robert King · November 29, 2016 6:19 pm

The increased spending would be offset by drawdowns in the petroleum reserve, created as an emergency fuel storage facility in response to the 1970s Arab oil embargo, and rescinding certain spending authority, which one expert deemed a novel and reasonable approach. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)

Congress taps oil, Obamacare for cures funding

Robert King · November 29, 2016 2:54 am

Texas' Department of State Health Services reported that a resident in Cameron County, near the border with Mexico, contracted the Zika virus. (AP Photo)

Zika spreads to Texas

Robert King · November 28, 2016 8:33 pm

Chuck Grassley, of Iowa, is objecting to plans to quickly take up the bill if the Senate keeps a provision weakening the Sunshine Act, which Grassley co-authored. (AP Photo)

Grassley wants changes to cures bill

Robert King · November 28, 2016 6:37 pm

Paul Krugman has some theories about that election. (Franck Robichon/Pool Photo via AP)

Paul Krugman: Comey, Putin ‘installed’ the ‘crazy, vindictive’ Trump

Robert King · November 27, 2016 11:26 pm

"In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally," Trump tweeted on Sunday. (AP Photo)

Trump blames ‘millions of people who voted illegally’ for popular vote loss

Robert King · November 27, 2016 9:52 pm

"Democrats lost 60 seats in the House under @POTUS," Kellyanne Conway tweeted Sunday. "Will they reward @NancyPelosi with reelection to leader for this disaster?" (AP Photo)

Conway jabs Pelosi over lost Democratic majority

Robert King · November 27, 2016 8:44 pm

"I think there is nothing Romney can say that doesn't sound phony or pathetic," Newt Gingrich said, adding that he would nevertheless support whoever Trump picks. (AP Photo)

Gingrich: Trump supporters would be ‘enormously disappointed’ in Romney pick

Robert King · November 27, 2016 7:15 pm

Kellyanne Conway didn't disclose the nature of the conversation, saying that they "get along nicely. They disagree on many things. That's not going to change." (AP Photo)

Conway: Trump and Obama talk regularly

Robert King · November 27, 2016 6:20 pm