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Oct 03 2012
Candidate Stances
Romney on Education
Mitt Romney does not support requiring states to implement education reforms in order to be eligible for competitive federal grants. He would prefer that state and local governments determine what education reforms are best for them.
Vote SmartSep 23 2013
News
Lower Health Insurance Premiums to Come at Cost of Fewer Choices
Federal officials often say that health insurance will cost consumers less than expected under President Obama’s health care law. But they rarely mention one big reason: many insurers are significantly limiting the choices of doctors and hospitals available to consumers.
New York Times (News)Sep 30 2012
News
Democrats Target Ohio Ballot Rule as Republican Laws Fall
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWines bid to preserve a law disqualifying provisional election ballots filed in the wrong precinct comes before a federal appeals court next week in the so-called battleground state.
BloombergMay 20 2015
News
Hillary Clinton's plan for small business contains a potentially huge idea
Being for small business in American politics is like having a favorable attitude toward Mom or apple pie. But campaigning in Iowa this week, Hillary Clinton's thus-far policy-light campaign rolled out the germ of a small-business idea that has big implications: the federal government should help smaller businesses by showing more favorable treatment to small banks.
VoxNov 21 2013
News
Landmark Senate Vote Limits Filibusters
The Senate voted on Thursday to eliminate the use of the filibuster against most presidential nominees, a move that will break the Republican blockade of President Obama’s picks to cabinet posts and the federal judiciary. The change is the most fundamental shift in the way the Senate functions in more than a generation.
New York Times (News)Feb 27 2013
News
New Spate of Acrimony in Congress as Cuts Loom
With deep federal spending cuts poised to begin Friday, Congress engaged in a new round of finger-pointing, intraparty bickering and frustration on Tuesday, at one point prompting top party leaders to hurl vulgarities at each other.
Wall Street Journal (News)Feb 24 2015
Opinion
OPINION: On Homeland Security funding, Republicans govern without logic
WHATEVER ITS merits or shortcomings, a federal judge’s decision last week blocking the Obama administration’s immigration policy offered congressional Republicans an escape path from the corner into which they had painted themselves by imperiling funding for the Department of Homeland Security and its 240,000 employees. Thus far they have not shown the wisdom to accept this gift.
Washington PostMay 17 2015
News
Will Loretta Lynch change Obama administration's views on legal pot?
The Supreme Court is prodding the Justice Department to weigh in -- for the first time under Attorney General Loretta Lynch -- on the delicate legal issue of how to treat states that have legalized marijuana in the face of a federal ban.
It is a subject the Obama administration has handled gingerly, most recently in 2013, when the department, then led by Attorney Ge
CNN DigitalMay 16 2015
News
Clintons have made more than $ 25 million for speaking since January 2014
Hillary Rodham Clinton and former president Bill Clinton earned in excess of $ 25 million for delivering 104 speeches since the beginning of 2014, a huge infusion to their net worth as she was readying for a presidential bid.
The Clintons Revealed Their recent income as Paid speakers and Other Aspects of Their personal finances in Disclosure forms Filed with the Federal Election C
Washington PostFeb 22 2013
News
Krauthhammer Discusses Medicaid Expansion: Conservative Governors “Can Act Honorably Either Wayâ€Â
Florida Governor Rick Scott was one of Obamacares earliest and most vociferous critics -- one of many reasons why conservatives are up in arms now that the Sunshine State will accept federal funds to expand its Medicaid program.
Townhall