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Becki Meiss takes WikiLeaks offers to Nimble Thimble provides
new role as director help tech firms identify new space for local
of the Lancaster software holes used by program that helps
County SPCA. purported CIA hacking. at-risk women.
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CONGRESS ATLANTIC SUNRISE

Effort to
MARATHON SESSION reverse
approval
GOP claims momentum as health bill clears congressional hurdles

expands
PPL, state PUCs say agency
erred in its pipeline decision
AD CRABLE
ACRABLE@LNPNEWS.COM

The state public utilities commissions of

New York and North Carolina, as well as
PPL, have joined those calling for the Fed-
eral Energy Regulatory Commission to re-
consider its approval of the controversial
Atlantic Sunrise natural gas pipeline.
The North Carolina Utilities Commis-
sion and the New York State Public Ser-
vice Commission say the federal agency
erred in allowing too-high profit returns
for pipeline builder Williams Partners
and its Transco subsidiary. And, they say,
Williams hasnt proven the pipeline is in
the public interest.
The growing opposition could poten-
tially delay the 197-mile pipeline project,
37 miles of which would pass through
ASSOCIATED PRESS Lancaster County.
During a news conference on Capitol Hill, House Speaker Paul Ryan makes his case Thursday for the GOPs long-awaited plan Asked about the opposition, Williams
to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. The plan cleared its first congressional hurdle when the House Ways and Means spokesman Chris Stockton said, FERCs
Committee approved it in a 23-16 vote at 4:30 a.m. Thursday after a marathon 18-hour session. extensive three-year review of the proj-
ect was thorough and comprehensive.
PIPELINE, page A16
ERICA WERNER AND ALAN FRAM OBAMAS HEALTH LAW VS. HOUSE BILL

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ASSOCIATED PRESS
A Republican plan in the House of Representatives would repeal
key aspects of the Affordable Care Act:
ASHINGTON Repub-
lican leaders drove their AFFORDABLE CARE ACT HOUSE GOP PLAN RETAIL

J.C. Penney
long-promised legislation MEDICAID EXPANSION
to dismantle President
Barack Obamas health care law over its Expands Medicaid eligibility and Overhaul entire Medicaid

at Park City
pays most of the costs for new program, capping federal
first big hurdles in the House on Thurs- patients. A Supreme Court ruling funding. Repeals Medicaid
left it to each state to decide expansion funding for new
day and claimed fresh momentum despite

might close
whether to accept the expansion; beneficiaries.
cries of protest from right, left and center. 31 have done so.

INDIVIDUAL MANDATE
After grueling all-night sessions, the Energy and
Commerce and Ways and Means committees both
approved their portions of the bill along party-line
Requires individuals to carry
insurance or face fines. This
Repeals fines retroactive to 2016.
Instead requires individuals to
Morningstar list says store
votes. The legislation, strongly supported by Pres- was intended to bring in new
customers and spread the costs.
maintain continuous coverage
or face a penalty on top of
has higher risk of going dark
ident Donald Trump, would replace the tax penal- premium.
ties for the uninsured under Obamas Affordable TIM MEKEEL
TMEKEEL@LNPNEWS.COM
Care Act with a conservative blueprint likely to EMPLOYER MANDATE
cover far fewer people but, Republicans hope, in- The J.C. Penney Co. store at Park City
crease choice. Requires companies with more Center is among the chains locations
Repeals fines, retroactive to 2016.
The vote in Ways and Means came before dawn, than 50 full-time workers to most likely to close, a financial-rating
while the Energy and Commerce meeting lasted provide insurance coverage for company says.
employees or face fines.
past 27 hours as exhausted lawmakers groped for Morningstar Credit Ratings this week
coffee refills, clean shirts and showers. TAX CREDITS
included the local store on its list of 39
locations with the highest risk of shutting
This is the moment Provides tax credits based on Provides tax credits primarily down because they have the weakest sales
income to help pay
premiums.
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Angry Democrats protested that Republicans J.C. Penney announced last by
month that
were acting in the dead of night to rip insurance ACCOUNT TAX : 8275701 LANCASTER NEWSPAPERS, INC.vacate 130 to 140 stores
it would
INCREASES SYMBOLOGY, over
INC. the
coverage from poor Americans. But Republican ORDERED BY : RORY MACKISON next few months as the retailer
Minneapolis, struggles
Minnesota, 55414
leaders sounded increasingly confident that, af- Imposes taxes on upper-income
P.O. NUMBER : Repeals all of these taxes.
008508 with growing competition from online re-
612-331-6200
ter seven years of empty promises about undoing earners, investors, medical-device tailers.
Obamas law, they might finally be able to over-
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50%
locations
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either
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ex-
insurance plans to offset costs of
come their own deep divisions and deliver a bill to (MAC Illust.
subsidies to consumers. V.3 EPS via EMAIL)
Also adds pensive, extensive renovation or are un-
Trump to sign. sales tax on indoor tanning. derperformers financially, J.C. Penney
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