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Avik Roy / Forbes:
Obama Officials In 2010: 93 Million Americans Will Be Unable To Keep Their Health Plans Under Obamacare — On Wednesday, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius testified before Congress about the continuing issues with the rollout of Obamacare's health insurance exchanges.
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David Firestone / Taking Note:
The Uproar Over Insurance ‘Cancellation’ Letters — Kathleen Sebelius, the Health and Human Services secretary, took a lot of grief Wednesday from Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee who were outraged that some people's individual insurance policies had been “cancelled” because of health care reform.
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Pelosi pushes back hard on dropped plans
Pelosi pushes back hard on dropped plans
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Kevin Diaz / Associated Press:
At least 140,000 Minnesotans will lose current health policies
At least 140,000 Minnesotans will lose current health policies
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Aaron Blake / Post Politics:
Obama blames ‘bad apple insurers’ for canceled insurance plans
Obama blames ‘bad apple insurers’ for canceled insurance plans
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Katie McHugh / The Daily Caller:
Report: White House exerting ‘massive pressure’ on insurance companies to keep quiet
Report: White House exerting ‘massive pressure’ on insurance companies to keep quiet
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David Corn / Mother Jones:
WATCH: Ted Cruz's Dad Calls US a “Christian Nation,” Says Obama Should Go “Back to Kenya” — Want to understand where the tea party champion's hardcore views come from? Meet his father, Rafael. — In April, Rafael Cruz, the father of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), spoke to the tea party of Hood County …
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Rebecca Shabad / The Hill:
Reid: Cruz nomination would destroy GOP — Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) says if Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) won the Republican nomination for president, it would destroy the GOP. — In an interview on MSNBC's “The Rachel Maddow Show” Wednesday night, Reid discussed fallout from the 16 …
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David Denby / Comment:
TED CRUZ: THE MASK OF SINCERITY — When Ted Cruz lies, he appears to be praying. His lips narrow, almost disappearing into his face, and his eyebrows shift abruptly, rising like a drawbridge on his forehead into matching acute angles. He attains an appearance of supplication …
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Kristie Greco / FAA:
Press Release - FAA to Allow Airlines to Expand Use of Personal Electronics — For Immediate Release — WASHINGTON- The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Michael Huerta today announced that the FAA has determined that airlines …
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Katie Glueck / Politico:
Book: Obama asked Hillary Clinton to stay — President Barack Obama asked Hillary Clinton several times to stay on as his secretary of state during a Nov. 2012 ride aboard Air Force One, but she told him it was time for her to move on, a new book reveals. — “Would you reconsider, perhaps stay another year?
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Ian Swanson / The Hill:
President asked Hillary to stay
President asked Hillary to stay
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Mark Murray / NBCNews:
NBC/WSJ poll: Obama approval sinks to new low — President Barack Obama's approval rating has declined to an all-time low as public frustration with Washington and pessimism about the nation's direction continue to grow, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
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Joe Biden / CNN:
Biden apologizes, says Obama tried to log on to health site
Biden apologizes, says Obama tried to log on to health site
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Michael O'Brien / NBC Politics:
Obama leadership style raises question of ‘who is in control?’
Obama leadership style raises question of ‘who is in control?’
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama voices ‘enormous frustration’ with GOP — President Obama told donors at a fundraiser Wednesday in Boston that he sometimes felt an “enormous frustration” with Republican efforts to block his legislative agenda. — “Sometimes people ask me, 'Man, how do you stay optimistic …
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Investor's Business Daily:
The Biggest Lie? ‘Keep Your Plan’ — Deception: In the face of millions of cancellation notices, Democrats want to downplay the president's “keep your health plan” pledge as standard political hyperbole. It was, in fact, a calculated lie that got ObamaCare enacted.
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
In health care mess, Obama reaps what he sowed
In health care mess, Obama reaps what he sowed
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Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
Thursday: Cory Booker and Mel Watt in the Senate — The Senate starts at 10 a.m., and will debate the nomination of Rep. Mel Watt (D-N.C.) to be the next director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency. — Republicans see Watt as someone who is likely to favor ongoing government intervention in the housing market.
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Syria Completes Destruction Activities to Render Inoperable Chemical Weapons Production Facilities and Mixing/Filling Plants — Director-General salutes returning group of OPCW inspectors to The Hague — The Joint Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons …
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First Read / NBCNews:
First Thoughts: Public places a curse on all of Washington
First Thoughts: Public places a curse on all of Washington
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Disclose.tv:
MASSIVE OIL DISCOVERY IN AUSTRALIA IS DEATHBLOW FOR SAUDIS — It is 6 times larger than the Bakken, 17 times the size of the Marcellus formation, and 80 times larger than the Eagle Ford shale. — All told the recent discovery outside a sleepy Australian town contains more black gold than in all of Iran, Iraq, Canada, or Venezuela.
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Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Deficit was $680 billion in 2013 — The federal budget deficit for fiscal 2013 was $680 billion, the Treasury Department reported Wednesday. — This is the first time that the deficit has fallen below $1 trillion during President Obama's time in the White House.
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Terence P. Jeffrey / CNSNews:
Obama Has Presided Over 5 of 6 Largest Deficits in U.S. History
Norm Ornstein / NationalJournal.com:
The Right to Vote — It is becoming increasingly obvious that the Supreme Court decision in Shelby County v. Holder, which eviscerated the Voting Rights Act, is leading to a new era of voter suppression that parallels the pre-1960s era—this time affecting not just African-Americans …
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Tal Kopan / Politico:
Sarah Palin hits President Obama ‘ShamWow’ speech — Sarah Palin is keeping up the infomercial peddler charge against President Barack Obama, criticizing his “ShamWow” speech in Boston and accusing him of lying to the American people. — Palin took to her Facebook page early Thursday morning …
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Rowan Scarborough / Washington Times:
U.S. commandos fought in Benghazi — Two out of eight in Tripoli sent to rescue, honored for valor — Masked from public view, two of the U.S. military's elite special operations commandos have been awarded medals for bravery for a mission that further undercuts the Obama administration's original story about the Benghazi tragedy.
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