WMAL Interview - AB STODDARD - 09.26.17

7:35 AM - INTERVIEW -- AB STODDARD - Associate Editor and columnist at RealClearPolitics. TOPIC: - Latest in Congress on healthcare and tax reform GRAHAM-CASSIDY - Collins comes out against ObamaCare repeal bill, effectively killing it - Orrin Hatch Says It Is ‘Virtually Impossible’ To Pass Graham-Cassidy. - 181 people were arrested outside a hearing room where senators were discussing the GOP health care bill.

TAX REFORM

GOP senators reject combining health, tax reform in 2018 ( The Hill) - With the latest effort to overhaul ObamaCare looking dead just days before the Sept. 30 deadline, Senate Republicans are putting the kibosh on suggestions that the effort be combined with tax reform in 2018. “Heavens no. We’re not going to do that,” said Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), chairman of the Senate Tax Committee. “It would just screw up the whole thing.” Republicans were relying on a budget process called reconciliation to avert a Democratic filibuster on health care. The health-care specific instructions passed in the 2017 budget expire on Saturday, and Republicans plan on using the 2018 instructions to pass tax ref