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PHOENIX — Arizona Sens. John McCain and Jeff Flake on Thursday said they were studying a new Senate health care proposal repealing much of Barack Obama's health care law and imposing big cuts to Medicaid, but the proposal was slammed by many who have been lobbying for it to retain coverage for millions of Medicaid patients.

Four conservative senators promptly said they can't support the draft of a health care bill released Thursday by the Senate's Republican leadership as a cure for Obamacare.

We've heard all manner of complaints about the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, many of them fully justified. They've most recently drawn the wrath of the President for putting the temporary kibosh on his travel ban, but the list of perceived sins by the largely liberal judges spread across that massive holding dates back much further. Leaving ideological leanings aside for the moment, one of the biggest complaints about the Ninth is that it's so… well… big. It's territory covers locations with a total population of more than 60 million people.

Is Congress finally getting to the business of splitting the unworkable Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals? This has been a long-running debate spanning several decades, but one that is imperative to resolve if we are to provide equal and adequate access to justice for all.

PHOENIX — An Arizona congressman said he does not expect a lull in divisive rhetoric following the shooting of House Majority Whip Steve Scalise to last.

"I would like to believe that people in the world change but I'm not convinced that it will be a long-lasting change," U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) told KTAR News 92.3 FM's Reality Check with Darin Damme on Wednesday.

Biggs said it took mere hours after James Hodgkinson opened fire on Republican congressmen at a baseball field for people to begin battling anew on his Facebook page.