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Holder: DOJ Will Respond ‘Appropriately’ To Judge Questioning Obama Remarks
CHICAGO (AP) — U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday that the Justice Department will respond “appropriately” to a federal appellate judge in Texas who demanded a letter recognizing the...
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Governors Haven’t Decided How States Will Proceed On Health Care Law
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — Millions of uninsured people may have to wait until after Election Day to find out if and how they can get coverage through President Barack Obama’s health care law. More than...
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Pelosi Slams Senate For Voting To Strip Away Part Of Health Care Law
BOSTON (AP) — House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi marked the 20th anniversary of the federal Family and Medical Leave Act in Boston by pushing for federal legislation that would require businesses to...
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Study: Businesses In States That Reject ‘Obamacare’ Could Face Fines Topping...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Rejecting the Medicaid expansion in the federal health care law could have unexpected consequences for states where Republican lawmakers remain steadfastly opposed to what they scorn...
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Top Democrats, Obama Discuss To-Do List Over Dinner At Upscale Hotel
WASHINGTON (AP) — The top Democratic leaders in the House hashed out their to-do list Wednesday at a suppertime powwow with President Barack Obama. At an upscale hotel blocks from the White House,...
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Court: Hobby Lobby Can Challenge Federal Birth-Control Coverage Mandate
DENVER (AP) — In a health care decision giving hope to opponents of the federal birth-control coverage mandate, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday that Hobby Lobby stores won’t have to start paying...
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GOP To Sports Leagues: Don’t Play With ‘Obamacare’
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate’s Republican leader is telling major league sports: Don’t play with “Obamacare.” Following news that the administration has approached the NFL and other sports leagues to...
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Vitter: I Support Government Shutdown Rather Than Paying For ‘Obamacare’
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — U.S. Sen. David Vitter told a packed town hall meeting that he will support a federal government shutdown this fall rather than agree to pay for President Barack Obama’s health...
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Clinton: Implement Health Care, Stop ‘Replaying’ Debates To Repeal Law
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Bill Clinton urged opponents of the federal health care law Wednesday to stop trying to repeal it and instead work to improve it, as the White House enlisted the former...
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‘Obamacare’ Contractors Project Confidence Ahead Of Oct. 1 Deadline
WASHINGTON (AP) — Major contractors hooking up the internal plumbing of President Barack Obama’s health care law projected confidence Tuesday that they will be ready to go by an Oct. 1 deadline, even...
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Report: 19 Amendments, Delays To ‘Obamacare’ Since Its Signing
WASHINGTON (CBS DC) — A Congressional Research Service report finds that President has already signed 14 laws to amend, retract or simply change the Affordable Care Act, and he has also taken five...
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Obama: World Must Stand Ready To Act On Syria
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he’s prepared to move forward on a “serious plan” for Syria’s chemical weapons but adds that the world must stand ready to act if diplomacy fails. In his...
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D.C. Health Care Exchange Missing Medicaid Feature
WASHINGTON — The District of Columbia’s new health care exchange will debut Tuesday, but will be missing a key feature. The online marketplaces are a key part of President Obama’s health care law. The...
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Partial Federal Shutdown Echoes Across Virginia Politics
RICHMOND, Va. — In the hours after a dysfunctional Congress failed to provide funding to keep federal government fully operational, Virginia’s politicians staked out positions that could affect...
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Boehner: Obama Risking Default By Rejecting Talks With Republicans
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States moved closer to the possibility of the first-ever default on the government’s debt Sunday as Speaker John Boehner adamantly ruled out a House vote on a...
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Sebelius To Face Tough Questioning From GOP-led Committee
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s health secretary is in the hot seat this week as House Republicans get a chance to question her about the troubled rollout of the health care law they long...
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Ongoing Health Care Troubles Give GOP A Much-Needed Boost
WASHINGTON (AP) — The health care law’s seemingly endless problems are giving congressional Republicans a much-needed boost of energy, helping them to move past the government-shutdown debacle and...
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Supreme Court Weighs New Health Law Dispute
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s health care law is headed for a new Supreme Court showdown over companies’ religious objections to the law’s birth-control mandate. Amid the troubled rollout...
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Obamacare Puts Volunteer Firefighting In Jeopardy
FREEPORT, Maine (AP) — Fire chiefs and lawmakers are working to protect the system of volunteer firefighting that has served rural America for more than a century but is threatened by an ambiguity in...
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Obama Lunches With Youth Promoting Health Sign-Ups
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is lunching with five young people to call attention to the need for young Americans to enroll for insurance through his health care law. Obama traveled Friday...
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Health Care Site Passes Newest Cyber Security Test
WASHINGTON (AP) — Medicare’s top cybersecurity official says the Obama administration’s health care website recently passed full security tests, easing her earlier concerns about vulnerabilities....
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CBO: Health Care Website Woes Will Reduce Enrollment For 2 Million Americans
WASHINGTON (AP) — Budget experts for Congress say fewer uninsured people than expected will get covered this year through President Barack Obama’s health care law. The Congressional Budget Office...
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Biden To Democrats: No Apologies In 2014
WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden says his central message to Democrats is not to apologize for the party’s policies heading into the 2014 midterm election. Biden is addressing state party chairmen...
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Hillary Clinton Open To ‘Evidence-Based Changes’ To Obamacare
WASHINGTON (CBS DC) — Former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton offered a “qualified endorsement” of President Barack Obama’s embattled health care law, saying that while the law has numerous positive...
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Poll: At 4-Year Anniversary, Majority Of Americans Disapprove Of Obamacare
WASHINGTON (CBS DC) — Four years after the law’s passage, the Affordable Care Act remains unpopular with the American public, with a majority (53 percent) of U.S. adults saying they disapprove of...
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Court Critical Of Ohio Law Punishing Campaign Lies
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is expressing serious doubts about the constitutionality of an Ohio law that bars people from making false statements about political candidates during a campaign. Most...
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Tenn Senator: Holocaust Remark Not Meant To Offend
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A Tennessee state Senator says his comparison of the federal health care law to the forced transportation of Jews to concentration camps during the Holocaust was not meant to offend....
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Medicaid Benefits Expanded For Pregnant Women Through Obamacare
WASHINGTON (AP) — The health care law has opened up a new opportunity for some mothers-to-be to save on medical bills for childbirth. Lower-income women who signed up for a private policy in the new...
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Healthcare.gov Gets Cybersecurity Upgrades Ahead Of Nov. 15 Open Enrollment
WASHINGTON (AP) — Officials say HealthCare.gov has gotten cybersecurity upgrades ahead of a Nov. 15 start for the second open enrollment season under President Barack Obama’s health care law. Andy...
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Obama, Roberts Legacies Linked Together In Health Care Law
WASHINGTON (AP) — The chief justice who once mangled President Barack Obama’s oath of office has once again helped rescue the president’s signature achievement, his health care law. After an awkward...
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