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Sarah Kliff / Wonkblog:
Exclusive: The feds have made 330,000 Obamacare subsidy calculations — More than 330,000 people have managed to get deep enough into new government health insurance Web sites to learn how much financial assistance they will receive purchasing coverage, the Internal Revenue Service said Saturday.
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Talking Points Memo and The Hill
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HHS.govStrategy:
What's Working in the Marketplace: The Data Services Hub — Site Tags: — Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services — Saturday, October 26, 2013 — To give Americans a better way to shop for health coverage, the federal government and states recently launched Health Insurance Marketplaces.
Peter Wallsten / Washington Post:
Republican congressman Jeff Denham will join Democrats in immigration overhaul push — A Republican congressman from a heavily Hispanic district is breaking ranks from his party to join Democrats in an eleventh-hour push for a broad immigration overhaul before the end of the year.
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Talking Points Memo and The Hill
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Steven Pearlstein / Wonkblog:
Marty Sullivan figured out how the world's biggest companies avoided billions in taxes. Here's how he wants to stop them. — Marty Sullivan in the Arlington garage where he parses filings to figure out how multi-national corporations avoid taxes. (Photo by Matt McClain/ The Washington Post)
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Brad DeLong
Jennifer Jacobs / Des Moines Register:
In Iowa, tea party defender Ted Cruz says he knows how to unite the GOP — Conservative purist Ted Cruz addressed the concerns of any Iowa Republicans who reject him as too rigid, arguing he knows exactly how to unify the GOP and how to turn the country around. — The answer: “Restore historic economic growth,” he said.
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Talking Points Memo, Associated Press, neo-neocon, The Hill, The Raw Story, Taegan Goddard's …, The Reaction and Red Alert Politics
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Bryan Koenig / CNN:
Ted Cruz's grassroots: The new Reagan Revolution?
Ted Cruz's grassroots: The new Reagan Revolution?
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The PJ Tatler and Politico
Patrick Howley / The Daily Caller:
Michelle Obama's Princeton classmate is executive at company that built Obamacare website — First Lady Michelle Obama's Princeton classmate is a top executive at the company that earned the no-bid contract to build the failed Obamacare website. — Toni Townes-Whitley, Princeton class of '85 …
Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
NSA critics rally, ‘Stop watching us’ — Critics of U.S. surveillance activities will rally Saturday in Washington, D.C. in a sign of growing furor over the practice. — The “Stop Watching Us” rally and march is scheduled to take place Saturday morning, the 12th anniversary of the signing of the Patriot Act.
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CNN, The Raw Story and The Daily Caller
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
NSA: Website Crash Was Internal Error, Not Hacker Attack — The National Security Agency said in a statement late Friday that its website was brought down for a few hours by a glitch, not by rumored hackers. — “NSA.gov was not accessible for several hours tonight because of an internal error …
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CANNONFIRE, Business Insider and RT
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Reuters:
United States tracked Merkel's phone since 2002: report — (Reuters) - The United States may have bugged Angela Merkel's phone for more than 10 years, according to a news report on Saturday that also said President Barack Obama told the German leader he would have stopped it happening had he known about it.
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Talking Points Memo, The Verge and PoliticusUSA
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
After Year of Working Around Federal Cuts, Agencies Face Fewer Options — WASHINGTON — In the weeks that led to the huge across-the-board cuts to federal spending early this year, Obama administration officials warned of dire consequences for the Justice Department: F.B.I. agents dropped …
Philip Elliott / Associated Press:
Cuccinelli Tests Conservatism Va. Governor Race — Ken Cuccinelli's campaign for governor of Virginia has always been a test of whether a deeply conservative Republican could win in a swing-voting state. — For months, the attorney general — known outside his state for mounting …
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Politico
Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
Obama: GOP ‘rooting’ for ObamaCare failure — President Obama blasted GOP opponents of his healthcare law as hypocrites after Republicans expressed concerns about the rocky rollout of HealthCare.gov. — In his weekly address, Obama suggested that the GOP's focus on the issue was in bad faith …
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Weasel Zippers
David Feith / Wall Street Journal:
Xia Yeliang: The China Americans Don't See — A Peking University economics professor who was sacked for his political views explains the underside of elite Chinese higher education. — The 21st-century romance between America's universities and China continues to blossom …
New York Times:
Promised Fix for Health Site Could Squeeze Some Users — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration said Friday that it would fix problems in the federal health insurance marketplace by Nov. 30, just two weeks before the deadline to sign up for coverage to replace health insurance policies …
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Nextgov, The Caucus and Forbes
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