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Jan 19 2021
Headline Roundup
Previewing Joe Biden's Inauguration
President-elect Joe Biden is scheduled to be sworn in as the 46th President of the Untied States Wednesday in an inauguration ceremony beginning around 11 a.m. ET. He and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will take the oath shortly after noon ET; Chief Justice John Roberts will swear in Biden, and Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor will swear in Harris. President Donald Trump will not
Reuters Fox News (Online News) NBC News (Online)Mar 19 2015
News
Poll on Health Care Law Shows Increased Support
The gap between Americans who view the Affordable Care Act favorably and those who do not is smaller now than at any time since the fall of 2012, a year before the law’s disastrous rollout, according to a monthly poll that has tracked attitudes about the polarizing law since President Obama signed it five years ago.
The latest Kaiser Health Tracking Poll, conducted in early March by the
New York Times (News)Mar 12 2019
News
Trump's Budget Would Add $7.9 Trillion to the National Debt Over the Next Decade
And the real outcome is likely to be worse, since the budget relies on overly rosy assumptions about future economic growth.
Page 1 of President Donald Trump's proposed budget boldly promises to tame America's runaway national debt, which recently surpassed $22 trillion and continues to grow.
"My 2020 Budget builds on the tremendous progress we have made and provides a clear
ReasonMar 17 2015
News
Sex Trafficking Bill, Ensnared by Politics, Is Left in Limbo by a Senate Vote
An amazing thing about Congress: Things can always get worse.
The Senate has now even found a way to disagree on a bill that would protect victims of sex trafficking. And in the process, that dispute has ensnared President Obama’s largely uncontroversial nominee for attorney general, Loretta E. Lynch.
On Tuesday, a measure that would create a victims’ fund, using fines collected
New York Times (News)Oct 25 2014
News
Double Trouble for the Health Care Overhaul?
As President Barack Obama’s administration gears up for its second open enrollment period next month, the president’s health care overhaul is now facing two new threats. Either piece of news, on its own, should warrant concern from the law’s most ardent supporters for the program’s long-term prospects.
The first threat is a group of legal challenges to the law that are making their way
The BlazeOct 25 2014
News
House lawmakers grapple with Ebola both at home and abroad
A House oversight hearing Friday laid bare the sheer complexity of dealing with the global Ebola epidemic, as lawmakers toggled between the desperate plight in West Africa and concern that flawed policies have put Americans’ at risk on their own shores.
Rep. Darrell Issa, California Republican and the chamber’s top investigator, repeatedly questioned the Obama administration’s ability
Washington TimesMar 16 2015
News
Over 16 Million People Have Gained Coverage Thanks to Obamacare, White House Says
More than 16 million uninsured Americans have gained health coverage since several of the Affordable Care Act's provisions took effect, according to an Obama administration report released Monday, a week before the law's five-year anniversary.
This includes 14.1 million adults who gained health insurance from the beginning of open enrollment in October 2013 to the beginning of this
National JournalJul 26 2019
Opinion
How White Democrats Moved Left
Racial equity has become the defining issue of the moment.
People are always changing their minds, day to day. But over the past 20-odd years one group has shifted to an astounding degree: highly educated white Democrats. I’m not sure I understand why this group has undergone such a transformation, but it has, and the effects are reshaping our politics.
The easiest way to
David BrooksNov 09 2013
News
White House, Republicans spar over Obamacare record
The Obama administration said Friday it is seeing mixed progress in fixing the federal Obamacare website, as Republicans piled on criticism by saying taxpayers should get a refund for the broken $400 million Internet portal and that new numbers indicate that few people have enrolled in the insurance market for the District of Columbia tied to the health care law. Jeffrey Zients, the management
Washington TimesMar 04 2015
News
GOP probably stuck with weakened Boehner
Nothing has changed for John Boehner. When he kept hold of the speaker’s gavel fewer than 60 days ago, his advisers and close allies said the worst was behind them. He now had the largest Republican majority in eight decades. He had moderates willing to back him up. And he had a partner in Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell who would bolster Boehner in his battles against President Barack
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