Health-care law attacks heat up
With battles over the president's signature health legislation underway in the courts and on Capitol Hill, a third line of attack is forming in the states.
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There are many critiques of the health care law, both from the left and right, which have been written by health care and legislative experts. That's where people need to go for more information.
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Budget 2012: Health and Human Services
The first sentence of the "funding highlights" in the White House budget document says that...
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Freshman Rep. Gowdy to chair D.C., Census, oversight panel
House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) will announce Tuesday that Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) will helm the subcommittee that handles District matters, giving the job to a freshman lawmaker with no record of speaking out on D.C. issues.
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Ombudsman's report says IRS should recast itself
Buried within the annual ombudsman report on the Internal Revenue Service, the nation's taxpayer advocate warns that the agency needs to recast itself as it prepares to enforce elements of the new health-care reform law.
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Federal breast-feeding policy detailed
Federal workers who need to breast-feed on the job should be given a reasonable amount of time, must be provided access to a clean, private room and might not be paid while doing so.
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President Obama signed the bill into law in the East Room of the White House after addressing an audience that included lawmakers who supported the measure.
A spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says the bill making changes in President Barack Obama's newly enacted health care overhaul will have to go back to the House for final congressional approval.
The No. 2 Republican in the house, Eric Cantor, said at a news conference Thursday that someone shot a bullet through a window of his campaign office in Richmond, Virginia and said he has received threatening e-mail
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Key Coverage
- The Color of Money: 4 scenarios in the new health-care law, March 28
- PublicAffairs Books: Order 'Landmark'
- House passes health-care without GOP votes, March 22
- 5 Myths about the politics of health care, March 21
- House leaders announce $940 billion health-care compromise bill, March 19
- Democrats yet to decide on health-care bill bear the weight of Washington, March 18
