Support for Obamacare Decreases

Last month’s Kaiser Health Tracking Poll found that more than half of Americans view the law unfavorably, an eight point increase from June. Only 37 percent view the law favorably while 53 percent disapprove. This increase in disapproval may be driven by Americans reporting they hear more negative than positive things about Obamacare in ads and personal […]

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Pressure on Obamacare Agency to Ready HealthCare.gov for More Enrollees

With three months to go before HealthCare.gov opens again for business to Americans seeking insurance through Obamacare, congressional investigators and government accountants are sounding the alarm that consumers could “encounter challenges.” “The agency needs to make an assessment of … whether they are, in fact, on schedule and whether there are risks to the open […]

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Heritage Offers Bipartisan ‘Opportunity’ Agenda as Recess Reading for Lawmakers

As lawmakers prepared to head home from Washington for the long August recess, one ambitious organization sent them packing with a blueprint for delivering conservative policy reforms that emphasize opportunity for all Americans. Heritage Action for America, the lobbying arm of The Heritage Foundation, today delivered “Conservative Policy Agenda: Opportunity for All, Favoritism for None” […]

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In IRS Emails, Lois Lerner Calls Conservatives ‘Crazies’ and … Worse

The House Ways and Means Committee today released emails from Lois Lerner, former head of the Internal Revenue Service’s tax-exempt organizations division, in which she uses a vulgar anatomical expletive to refer to conservatives and says “it’s our own crazies that will take us down.” Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp, R-Mich., details the Lerner […]

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Fired Export-Import Bank Official Pleads the Fifth at Hearing on Corruption, Fraud

An Export-Import Bank official who was fired on suspicion of taking cash in exchange for helping a Florida company obtain financing cited his Fifth Amendment right in declining to testify today during a House hearing examining corruption and fraud at the bank, a federal agency. Johnny Gutierrez opted not to answer questions after being subpoenaed […]

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Nancy Pelosi Sides With Terrorism: Qataris Have Told Me Hamas Is a Humanitarian Organization

(CNSNews.com) – House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) says the United States must look to Qatar, an ally of the terrorist group Hamas, for advice in resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. “And we have to confer with the Qataris, who have told me over and over again that Hamas is a humanitarian organization,” she told CNN’s […]

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