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The head of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office delivered a damning assessment Wednesday of the Affordable Care Act, telling lawmakers that ObamaCare creates a "disincentive for people to work," adding fuel to Republican arguments that the law will hurt the economy.

The testimony from CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf comes after his office released a highly controversial report

President Barack Obama, after urging Congress to take a “prompt” vote authorizing military action against Syria, won endorsement for the cause from House Speaker John Boehner.

Backing from Republican Boehner brings Obama closer to overcoming objections being raised by some House members who’ve questioned the evidence presented by the administration that the Syrian government was behind

In the lead-up to President Barack Obama's heavily billed speech on climate policy in June, the big question among members of the White House press corps was what, exactly, he would say about the proposed Keystone XL pipeline.

By that point, the fault lines on Keystone were pretty clear. Congressional Republicans were demanding it be green-lighted. GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney

Gov. Rick Snyder said Wednesday that Michigan will not appeal a district judge’s ruling that it must recognize the roughly 300 marriages of same-sex couples performed during the brief time such unions were legal in the state. In a statement, the Republican governor noted that the Supreme Court will decide later this year whether same-sex marriage is a constitutional right. He said the state