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A list of the most recent blog entries about Health Care Reform.
Court opens door on new health law challenge
As the U.S. Supreme Court began a new term, the Justices seemed to open the door to the possibility of another challenge to the Obama health law, asking the Obama Administration to weigh in on a request to reconsider a challenge by Liberty University in Virginia. That news came as ...
US Supreme Court starts a new term
Just over three months after a huge decision to uphold most of President Obama's controversial health reform law, the U.S. Supreme Court convenes for its new term with a major decisions expected on affirmative action and other possible cases involving gay marriage and voting rights. Next week, the Court will ...
Election smack on the House floor
While the Congress is done with legislative business until after the November elections, the House and Senate must still convene for pro forma sessions over the next six weeks - and Democrats took advantage of that on the House floor on Tuesday. The tactic is nothing new from either party, ...
Romney tries to re-frame election debate
After taking heat over the leak of taped comments at a fund raising event earlier this year, Mitt Romney's campaign pushed back on Wednesday by releasing a memo to reporters that tries to frame the race for the White House as a battle between big government and free enterprise. Here ...
Text of Mitt Romney's GOP convention speech
Here is the text of Republican Mitt Romney's speech to the GOP convention in Tampa, as he accepted his party's nomination for President on Thursday night. This transcript was provided by the Romney campaign: Mr. Chairman, delegates. I accept your nomination for President of the United States of America. I ...
Paul Ryan's speech to GOP convention
From Tampa, Florida - Here are the prepared remarks for GOP Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan, as provided to reporters by the Mitt Romney campaign: Mr. Chairman, delegates, and fellow citizens: I am honored by the support of this convention for vice president of the United States. I accept the ...
Ninth Circuit releases Maui conference details
With their judicial conference at a resort in Maui starting this weekend, the federal judges of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals have now given Congress more details about their gathering, which critics in Congress say could cost more than $1 million. The documents also included a mea culpa of ...
GOP still a bit fuzzy on health reform
While Republicans in Congress have fully embraced a "repeal and replace" strategy on the Obama health law, there is still no specific GOP plan on what changes should be made to the President's health reform plans. "We in the House have positive solutions to all of the challenges that we ...
House starts health law repeal debate
With little suspense, the House on Tuesday is set to begin two days of debate on a Republican bill to repeal the Obama health law, as both parties ran through familiar arguments on the pros and cons of the reforms. "Everybody knows where we stand on this," said House Rules ...
Congress battles on Obama health law
As the Congress returns to work this week after a July Fourth break, Republicans in the House will focus their political energy on a vote scheduled for Wednesday which would repeal the Obama health law. The outcome is easy to predict, as Republicans will vote for the law's repeal, while ...
Why the Individual Mandate is still constitutional
Since the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Obama health law on Thursday, I have received a number of messages from listeners and readers arguing that because the Justices found the individual mandate was a tax, it was unconstitutional, as that plan didn't start in the House. "Article 1, Section 7 ...
Reporters get a Supreme Court reminder
Through the years that I have covered news in Washington, D.C., I have always tried to follow one rule - don't try to predict what the Supreme Court is going to do on a certain case. That was driven home this week by decisions in several major cases of the ...
Chief Justice Roberts delivers for President Obama
With the Supreme Court sharply divided, the Obama health law was saved by Chief Justice John Roberts, who sided with the four more liberal justices on the Court to uphold both the individual mandate and the overall health reform plan. It was a supremely ironic outcome, as the Roberts Court ...
Supreme Court rules on health care
It has been three months since three days of arguments before the Supreme Court wrapped up on the Obama health law, and now the Justices will finally deliver their verdict. But here is something important to remember - there is not just one health care case before the Supreme Court ...
Supreme Court knocks Arizona Immigration Law
I'm not a lawyer and I don't try to play one on TV. But reading through the Supreme Court ruling on the Arizona immigration law, it just seems like it is a win for the Obama Administration and a major setback for states looking to exert some influence in the ...
A busy week in Congress
With a break for Independence Day on the horizon, the Congress has a lot to deal with before lawmakers scatter across the country, including legislative battles over a major highway bill, interest rates for student loans and a GOP effort for a political rebuke of the Attorney General. That resolution ...
Supreme Court Monday
All eyes Monday morning will again be on the U.S. Supreme Court, as this week should bring what some believe may be a landmark decision on the Obama health law as well as a controversial illegal immigration law from Arizona. There are other cases still to be ruled on by ...
Waiting on the U.S. Supreme Court
The Supreme Court will again be the big focus in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, as the Justices will issue some of the final decisions of their 2011-2012 term - whether that includes a ruling on the Obama health law, no one knows. Once again, the major TV news networks and ...
"Dress rehearsal" expected at Supreme Court
Washington, D.C. will be on alert on this Monday morning for a possible Supreme Court ruling on the Obama health law, even though most experts don't believe that decision will be handed down until next week. My friends who work for the various television networks will all be in place ...
Media requests Supreme Court coverage
A coalition of news companies and media organizations has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to allow for live video and audio coverage inside the court when the historic decision is announced in coming weeks on the Obama health law. In a letter to Chief Justice John Roberts, the group acknowledges ...
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