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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:
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.” Ms. Shaheen sounds like a Democrat who thinks she's going to lose her job.
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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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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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Brian Beutler / Salon:
Republicans' embarrassing Obamacare overreach backfires
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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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Megan Slack / White House.gov Blog:
President Obama: We Should Pass Immigration Reform, and We Should Do It this Year
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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
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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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Raising the Age of Eligibility for Medicare to 67: An Updated Estimate of the Budgetary Effects
Niels Lesniewski / The World's Greatest …:
Reid: 'There's Not Going to Be a Grand Bargain'
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Brett LoGiurato / Business Insider:
Here's The Racist ‘Daily Show’ Interview That Cost A Local GOP Chair His Job — A North Carolina county precinct GOP chair resigned on Thursday after an offensive interview that aired on “The Daily Show” Wednesday, in which he said “lazy black people” want “the government to give them everything.”
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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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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 …
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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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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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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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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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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Rebecca Shabad / Ballot Box:
Crist launches video and website for expected gubernatorial run — Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist on Friday launched a new ad and website that could preface a guvernatorial run. — Crist has shifted his allegiance to the Democratic Party and is expected by many to try to win back the governor's house …
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John Kass / Chicago Tribune:
Sen. Bullhead from Illinois is hooked on outrage — Dick Durbin not only baited his own hook, he swallowed it whole — A Facebook post by Sen. Dick Durbin asserting that a House Republican leader insulted President Barack Obama while negotiating with him has Durbin in hot water.
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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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Fox News:
Sebelius NOT Fired? But This Single Mom ObamaCare Operator Is? — SEAN'S RADIO INTERVIEW WITH THE OBAMACARE OPERATOR — PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: We updated the website's homepage to offer more information about the other avenues to enroll in affordable health care until the online option works for everybody.
Oren Dorell / USA Today:
Report: Iran may be month from a bomb — Iran could produce enough weapons-grade uranium to build a nuclear bomb in as little as a month, according to a new estimate by one of the USA's top nuclear experts. — CONNECT — Iran could produce enough weapons-grade uranium to build …
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