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Douglas Elmendorf / Director's Blog:
CBO's Preliminary Analysis of H.R. 2, the Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act — The House of Representatives is planning to consider a bill (H.R. 2) to repeal the major health care legislation enacted last March—that is, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) …
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Jake Sherman / The Politico:
GOP bends its own new House rules — Just hours after taking control of the House, Republicans passed a sweeping set of rules promising transparency and reform. — But the new majority is already showing these promises aren't exactly set in stone. — After calling for bills to go through …
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CNN, The Note, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Oliver Willis and Washington Monthly
Sarah Kliff / The Politico:
CBO: Health law repeal adds $230 billion to deficit — Republicans kicked off the first day of Congressional proceedings to overturn health reform with unwelcome news: a Congressional Budget Office estimate that repeal would increase the deficit by $230 billion by 2021.
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CBS News, The Daily Caller and Taegan Goddard's …
Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
BREAKING: CBO Paints Grim Picture of Repeal — A few days ago I asked whether the Republicans would wait for a Congressional Budget Office score before voting on their proposal to repeal health care reform. To their credit, they have. And the news from the CBO is exactly what you would have thought …
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Crooks and Liars, Washington Monthly and Ezra Klein
Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Democrats Plan Attack on Republican Repeal Effort
Democrats Plan Attack on Republican Repeal Effort
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Pajamas Media, The Politico and New York Magazine
The Note:
Speaker Boehner Dismisses CBO's Report Health Care Repeal Increases Deficit
Speaker Boehner Dismisses CBO's Report Health Care Repeal Increases Deficit
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
New CBO Analysis: GOP's Push For Health Law Repeal Would Increase …
New CBO Analysis: GOP's Push For Health Law Repeal Would Increase …
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Hullabaloo and Wonk Room
Jonathan Allen / The Politico:
The Constitution (as amended) …
Jonathan Allen / The Politico:
‘Birther’ arrested during Constitution reading — A woman was arrested in the House gallery Thursday after interrupting a reading of the Constitution by yelling out her belief that President Barack Obama is not a natural born citizen of the United States. — When Frank Rep. Pallone …
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Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
The 'people's House' takes up ‘We the People’ with symbolic floor reading — Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle will spend Thursday morning in an historic exercise: reading the U.S. Constitution on the House floor. — After holding a 10 a.m. quorum call, Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) …
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Ezra Klein, The Plum Line, The Politico, Bob Goodlatte, Yglesias, Commentary, New York Magazine, Hot Air, Runnin' Scared, Gawker and Wonkette
Chris Moody / The Daily Caller:
Original U.S. Constitution will not be read in entirety on House floor — If you plan to follow along with your own copy during Thursday's House floor reading of the U.S. Constitution, you might notice that some members reading aloud are skipping parts of the original document.
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TPMDC, Balkinization, Daily Kos, No More Mister Nice Blog, Top of the Ticket, Patterico's Pontifications, Weigel and Washington Post
ABCNEWS:
Constitution Reading on House Floor Mired by Yelling, Objections — Members of the House of Representatives today read the Constitution on the floor of the House chamber, marking a first for Congress. While lawmakers read the amended version to skirt the original's controversial passages …
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Ryan J. Reilly / TPMMuckraker:
Birther Interrupts House Reading Of Constitution, Yells ‘Help Us Jesus’ (VIDEO)
Birther Interrupts House Reading Of Constitution, Yells ‘Help Us Jesus’ (VIDEO)
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Little Green Footballs, Slate and Indecision Forever
Ezra Klein:
The mystery of Bill Daley — Imagine I told you that one of the candidates President Obama is considering for chief of staff opposed the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, opposed doing health-care reform and led the Chamber of Commerce's effort to loosen the post-Enron regulations …
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Washington Monthly, The Caucus, The New Republic, Gawker, AOL News, Hullabaloo and The Daily Dish
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Alexander Mooney / CNN:
Daley chosen for Chief of Staff
Daley chosen for Chief of Staff
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The Politico, Reuters, Firedoglake, Economix and New York Times
Ben Feller / Associated Press:
AP sources: Obama chooses Daley as chief of staff
AP sources: Obama chooses Daley as chief of staff
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Chicago Breaking News, Mother Jones, Hot Air, Weasel Zippers, The Page, The New Editor and HotAirPundit
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
In '88, Daley deplored ‘black party’
In '88, Daley deplored ‘black party’
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and The Huffington Post
Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Online:
Daley Is Obama's New Chief
Daley Is Obama's New Chief
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Prairie Weather and NationalJournal.com
Mike Allen / The Politico:
BULLETIN: BILL DALEY ANNOUNCEMENT AS CHIEF OF STAFF EXPECTED SOON …
BULLETIN: BILL DALEY ANNOUNCEMENT AS CHIEF OF STAFF EXPECTED SOON …
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The Fix:
Democrats' defection from Pelosi is historic — How divided are Democrats' right now? — With 19 Democrats withholding support from Nancy Pelosi for House speaker on Wednesday, it represented the largest defection from a party's speaker nominee in nearly a century.
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CNN:
Retracted autism study an ‘elaborate fraud,’ British journal finds — Editor's note: Watch Anderson Cooper's interview with the author of the discredited study, Dr. Andrew Wakefield, on “AC360°” at 10 p.m. ET tonight. — (CNN) — A now-retracted British study that linked autism …
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James Warren / The Atlantic Online:
No Pity for Robert Gibbs and His ‘Modest’ Salary — Perhaps it was the long flight back from Hawaii. But President Obama's first full day back on the job suggested a slight case of tone deafness. — In bidding a sort-of farewell to White House spokesman Robert Gibbs, he noted the …
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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
McCain says he'll make 'Don't ask' repeal work — Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Thursday he would work to help implement the repeal of the military's “Don't ask, don't tell” policy, despite his opposition to that legislation. — McCain signaled he had made peace with the lame-duck bill …
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Sarah Ellison / Vanity Fair:
The Man Who Spilled the Secrets — The collaboration between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the Web's notorious information anarchist, and some of the world's most respected news organizations began at The Guardian, a nearly 200-year-old British paper. What followed was a clash of civilizations …
Todd Wright / NBC Miami:
Florida Professor Arrested for Having a “Suspicious” Bagel on a Plane — Passengers claimed man had suspicious package in the overhead compartment — A Florida professor was arrested and removed from a plane Monday after his fellow passengers alerted crew members they thought he had a suspicious package in the overhead compartment.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Mediaite, Commentary and Discourse.net
Wall Street Journal:
Momentum Builds for Corporate-Tax Overhaul — The White House and congressional Republicans are moving from different directions toward a consensus that the U.S. corporate tax code needs a fundamental overhaul, a goal high on corporate leaders' agenda. — Specific proposals for retooling …
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Washington Post, The New Republic, The Big Picture and Ezra Klein
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
U.S. teenager tortured in Kuwait and barred re-entry into the U.S. — Gulet Mohamed is an 18-year-old American citizen whose family is Somalian. His parents moved with him to the U.S. when he was 2 or 3 years old, and he has lived in the U.S. ever since. In March, 2009, he went to study Arabic …
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New York Times
Benedict Carey / New York Times:
Journal's Paper on ESP Expected to Prompt Outrage — One of psychology's most respected journals has agreed to publish a paper presenting what its author describes as strong evidence for extrasensory perception, the ability to sense future events. — The decision may delight believers …
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Gawker, The Agonist and Hullabaloo
O'Ryan Johnson / Boston Herald:
Grandpa killed in drug raid — Officials investigate shooting by SWAT — The 68-year-old grandfather of 12 who was killed yesterday by a Framingham police SWAT team in an early-morning drug raid was a retired MBTA worker described by shocked neighbors as the “nicest guy in the world.”
Nicholas Graham / The Huffington Post:
O'Reilly: God Causes The Tides, Not The Moon (VIDEO) — What's Your Reaction: … David Silverman, president of the American Atheist Group, went on The O'Reilly Factor last night to defend the billboard ads his group has put up around the country calling religion a scam.
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Myglesias / Yglesias:
Why Progressives Find It Difficult to Take the “Fiscal Responsibility” Movement Seriously — Portrait of the Deficit Hawk as a Liberal Democrat from Massachusetts — Yesterday was the presentation of the “Fiscy Awards,” which go to politicians that the fiscal responsibility movement likes:
The Hill:
President Obama's motorcade: A seatbelt-free zone? — Does President Obama wear a seatbelt in his presidential limo? He is supposed to, but there are indications that he doesn't. — After then-New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine (D) was seriously injured in a car accident in 2007 …
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The Jawa Report and Hot Air
Walter Olson / Cato @ Liberty:
The Fall of the House of Waxman — While others wish the new Congress well today on its swearing-in, I plan to light a 100-watt incandescent bulb and hoist a caffeinated alcoholic beverage in honor of a different milestone: starting today, the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee …
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