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In an Inside Health Policy article published yesterday, Thorn Run Partner’s Senior Vice President Shea McCarthy offered his take on the role of conservatives in the House — namely the Republican Study Committee (RSC) and the House Freedom Caucus — in looming negotiations between the two chambers as lawmakers continue to digest the Senate’s healthcare […]

Our Take The horrific events of last week drew poignant remarks from leaders on both sides of the aisle, who along with others, not only condemned the violence but urged participants on all sides to tone down the vitriol of the current state of political discourse.   Unfortunately, like all too many parents know, when petulant […]

As the summer churns along, Republican leaders are hoping to break the stalemate on their major priorities, namely health care legislation, tax reform, and the appropriations process for the 2018 fiscal year. All three appear to be deadlocked at the moment, with health care reform at the front of the queue. According to a report […]

The Week in Review The week in Washington was marred by tragedy after a gunman opened fire at a baseball practice for Republican Members of Congress ahead of the annual Congressional Baseball Game, injuring four, including House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA). Members of Congress were shaken by the event, particularly after it was apparent […]

Our Take Questions continue to swirl around how Congress will be able to address the ever-advancing deadline to raise the debt ceiling.  Will they pass a clean extension as Secretary Mnuchin as indicated is his preference?  Or, will Freedom Caucus members and OMB Director Mulvaney be able to successfully extract concessions in the negotiations to […]

In an Inside Health Policy article published last week, Thorn Run Partners Senior Vice President Shea McCarthy noted that he has heard rumblings within the GOP that the Senate could get rid of the community rating waiver in the House's American Health Care Act. “Early reports indicate that the Senate plans to keep the House’s waivers allowing states […]

This morning's "Morning Money" piece from Politico featured comments from Thorn Run’s Jason Rosenstock, who offers his take on the current state of play between both parties on the debt limit. “Democrats whose history under the Gephardt Rule shows they never wanted to make this a public issue, and who are tired of having to […]

The Week in Review Washington was abuzz as Congress returned from the Memorial Day recess with big-ticket items on its schedule. Namely, this included a House floor vote on a bill to revamp the nation’s financial regulations and the highly-anticipated testimony of former FBI Director James Comey in the Senate Intelligence Committee.

A big day in Washington will be marked by the highly-anticipated Senate Intelligence Committee hearing this morning featuring remarks from former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) James Comey. Comey has been asked to testify on his interactions with the President, particularly those related to the Bureau’s investigation of ties between the Trump campaign and Russian […]

The Week in Review With Congress on recess, the Trump administration took the biggest action of the week in Washington by announcing their intention to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement on climate change. The Agreement, signed by nearly every nation on Earth, set out voluntary carbon emissions standards to be met in […]

Our Take Monday, May 29th, in addition to being Memorial Day would have been the 100th Birthday of President John F. Kennedy.   As I was putting this week’s update together I may have scrolled through twitter a few times to procrastinate.   I came across the following – which I am assuming is true, because you […]

The Week in Review Health care developments dominated most of the week, as the Trump Administration asked for a continued hold in the House v. Price case on cost-sharing payments, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its latest score of the American Health Care Act (AHCA), and the White House released its proposed 2018 fiscal […]