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Carter Evans / CBS News:
Arrival of Obamacare forcing insurers to drop customers with low coverage — The Affordable Care Act was signed by President Obama in 2010 and since then he has repeated one reassuring phrase: “If you like your insurance plan you will keep it. No one will be able to take that away from you.
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Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
10 Senate Democrats Now Calling For Extension Of Obamacare Enrollment Period — Ten Senate Democrats have signed a letter urging the Obama administration to extend Obamacare's open enrollment period beyond March 31. — The letter, which follows a similar letter that Sen. Jeanne Shaheen …
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Jeanne Shaheen:
SHAHEEN LEADS COALITION OF SENATORS TO CALL FOR OPEN ENROLLMENT EXTENSION … (Washington, DC) - As Americans continue to experience technical difficulties with federal and state health insurance enrollment, a coalition of U.S. Senators led by Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) …
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Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
Strassel: Democrats Run for ObamaCare Cover — After weeks of vowing they wouldn't cave on the president's signature legislation, some Democrats are doing just that. — Jeanne Shaheen doesn't sound like a Democrat who just won a government-shutdown “victory.”
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Charlie Cook / NationalJournal.com:
This Isn't the First Time Obama Ignored Health Care Warnings — The president needs to apply an overdue reality check to the problem-plagued Affordable Care Act. — A woman looks at the HealthCare.gov insurance exchange internet site October 1, 2013. (Karen Bleier/AFP/Getty Images))
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Alexandra Jaffe / Ballot Box:
DNC chief: Democrats can run and win on ObamaCare in 2014
DNC chief: Democrats can run and win on ObamaCare in 2014
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ThinkProgress:
CNN Anchor Challenges Congresswoman To Substantiate Obamacare Criticism, Hilarity Ensues — On Friday morning, CNN anchor Carol Costello challenged Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) to substantiate her claim that HealthCare.gov will endanger Americans' medical privacy.
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Politico:
House GOP plans no immigration vote in 2013 — House Republican leadership has no plans to vote on any immigration reform legislation before the end the year. — The House has just 19 days in session before the end of 2013, and there are a number of reasons why immigration reform is stalled this year.
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
GOP comfortable ignoring Obama pleas for vote on immigration bill — For President Obama and advocates hoping for a House vote on immigration reform this year, the reality is simple: Fat chance. — Obama repeatedly since the shutdown has sought to turn the nation's focus to immigration reform …
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Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Officials alert foreign services that Snowden has documents on their cooperation with U.S. — U.S. officials are alerting some foreign intelligence services that documents detailing their secret cooperation with the United States have been obtained by former National Security Agency contractor …
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James Kanter / New York Times:
Germany and France Propose Talks With U.S. to Rein In Spying
Germany and France Propose Talks With U.S. to Rein In Spying
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
The implosion of the GOP brand, in one chart — Republicans successfully converted the 2010 elections into a referendum on President Obama, the economy, and liberal overreach. As a result, they won big. Now Democrats are hoping to turn the 2014 elections into a referendum on the GOP brand …
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Megan McArdle / Bloomberg:
Obamacare Fiasco Isn't a Single-Payer Conspiracy — I'm spending my morning listening to various contractors testify before Congress. Back in the day, when I worked for a tech consultancy, the technical term for what is going on in this hearing was “Not it!”
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Erik Wasson / The Hill:
CBO finds much less savings from raising Medicare age — The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office on Thursday dramatically lowered its estimate of the amount of budget savings to be gained from raising the Medicare eligibility age. — The CBO now says that raising the Medicare age slowly …
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Erick Erickson / RedState:
Follow the Law — Vladimir Lenin is said to have observed, “the worse, the better,” meaning the worse things got for Russians the better it was for the communists. — Lately, the left has taken to calling conservatives “Leninists” for our refusal to fix Obamacare.
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Addicted to the Apocalypse — Once upon a time, walking around shouting “The end is nigh” got you labeled a kook, someone not to be taken seriously. These days, however, all the best people go around warning of looming disaster. In fact, you more or less have to subscribe to fantasies …
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Jeff Himmelman / New York Times:
A Game of Shark and Minnow — In a remote corner of the South China Sea, 105 nautical miles from the Philippines, lies a submerged reef the Filipinos call Ayungin. — SCROLL — Satellite imagery: NASA — In most ways it resembles the hundreds of other reefs, islands …
Steve Liesman / CNBC:
Sen. Paul threatens to hold Yellen nomination: Source — Sen. Paul threatens Yellen nomination — CNBC's Steve Liesman reports Sen. Rand Paul has threatened to put Janet Yellen's Fed nomination on hold in exchange for an audit of the Federal Reserve. — Sen. Rand Paul is threatening …
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Ben Terris / NationalJournal.com:
How Kirsten Gillibrand Shed Her Past on the Way to Liberal Stardom — New York's junior senator was once a rural populist. Now people call her the next Hillary Clinton. How she got from there to here. — SYRACUSE, N.Y.—It's closer to breakfast than lunch, but Kirsten Gillibrand …
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CNN:
JonBenet Ramsey details coming — JonBenet Ramsey — (CNN) — Previously sealed court documents released Friday show that a Colorado grand jury voted in 1999 to indict the parents of murdered 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey on charges of child abuse resulting in death and being accessories to a crime.
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Alex Pappas / The Daily Caller:
Exclusive: Feds confiscate investigative reporter's confidential files during raid — A veteran Washington D.C. investigative journalist says the Department of Homeland Security confiscated a stack of her confidential files during a raid of her home in August — leading her to fear that a number …
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The Baylor Lariat:
StuGov: Nix ‘homosexual’ from conduct code — Student Senate passed the Sexual Misconduct Code Non-Discrimination Act, a proposal to reword Baylor's Sexual Misconduct Code, in the Student Senate meeting Thursday. — The act proposed to remove the phrase “homosexual acts” …
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Ktvtdeborah / CBS Dallas:
Woman Forced To Strip And Serve Jail Time For Overdue Ticket — NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) - A North Texas woman was handcuffed, stripped down and booked into jail - all because of an overdue traffic ticket. — It was just a ticket. Sarah Boaz was cited in August after an officer said she ran a stop sign.
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Peter Hamby / CNN:
The return of Sarah Palin — (CNN) — The Republican establishment can't stand her. The media mocks her. But Sarah Palin isn't going anywhere. — Far from it. — After laying low for much of this year, Palin is gingerly stepping back into the public arena with a national book tour …
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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
NC GOPer Who Resigned Over Racist Remark Says Party Is ‘Gutless’ (AUDIO) — The North Carolina GOP official who was asked to resign Thursday over a racially charged comment he made in a “Daily Show” interview doesn't regret the remark — rather, he thinks the Republican Party has “no guts.”
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Carl Campanile / New York Post:
Elderly patients sick over losing doctors under ObamaCare — ObamaCare is making seniors sick. — Elderly New Yorkers are in a panic after getting notices that insurance companies are booting their doctors from the Medicare Advantage program as a result of the shifting medical landscape under ObamaCare.
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Des Moines Register:
Ted Cruz Q&A: The senator's private side — Q. What is your dream job? — A. “I'd love to be the starting point guard for the Houston Rockets, and I'm confident that there is no universe in which that will ever come to pass.” — Q. What kind of car do you drive? — A. “A 2011 Range Rover.”
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Alex Seitz-Wald / NationalJournal.com:
Grover Norquist Gives Thumbs Up to Pot Taxes — The anti-tax advocate tells National Journal that taxing marijuana does not violate his pledge. — Good news for Republicans who want to legalize marijuana: Taxing pot is A-OK with Grover Norquist, the keeper of the anti-tax pledge that hundreds of GOP lawmakers have signed.
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