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Aaron C. Davis / Washington Post:
D.C. insurance commissioner fired a day after questioning Obamacare fix — A day after he questioned President Obama's decision to unwind a major tenet of the health-care law and said the nation's capital might not go along, D.C. insurance commissioner William P. White was fired.
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Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
David Plouffe to ABC: GOP Plan to Run Against Obamacare an ‘Impossibility’ — On This Week With George Stephanopoulos Sunday morning, former Obama advior David Plouffe dismissed the comparisons between the second terms of President Barack Obama and former President George W Bush …
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Washington Post:
Health-care law has changed game for Democrats looking to 2014 election
Health-care law has changed game for Democrats looking to 2014 election
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
In Fracas on Health Coverage, Some Democrats Feel Exposed
In Fracas on Health Coverage, Some Democrats Feel Exposed
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CNN:
Pelosi defends Obamacare claims, can't predict effect on Dems in midterms — Washington (CNN) - House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said Sunday neither she nor President Barack Obama misled the American people when they said, during the run-up to the passage of Obamacare, that people could keep their health insurance plans.
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Conor Finnegan / CNN:
Netanyahu on Iran: ‘This is a bad deal’ — (CNN) - Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a stern warning against the potential deal over Iran's nuclear program between Tehran and the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, along with Germany,.
Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Pelosi: Dems ‘stand tall’ behind O-Care
Pelosi: Dems ‘stand tall’ behind O-Care
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Jonathan Martin / The Caucus:
Dispute Over Gay Marriage Erupts in Cheney Family — Mary Cheney, a daughter of the former vice president, and her wife, Heather Poe, sharply criticized on Sunday a comment by by Ms. Cheney's sister, Liz Cheney, a candidate for the Senate in Wyoming, that they disagreed on the issue of same-sex marriage.
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Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
Louisiana Republican Who Backs Obamacare's Medicaid Provision Wins Seat Over Party Favorite — Campaign ad for Rep.-Elect Vance McAllister (R) — Louisiana voters elected Republican Vance McAllister in a runoff to fill the state's vacant Fifth District U.S. House seat on Saturday.
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
McAllister wins La. House runoff
McAllister wins La. House runoff
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Melinda Deslatte / Associated Press:
McAllister Wins 5th District Congressional Seat
McAllister Wins 5th District Congressional Seat
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Valerie Strauss / The Answer Sheet:
Arne Duncan: ‘White suburban moms’ upset that Common Core shows their kids aren't ‘brilliant’ — U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan told a group of state schools superintendents Friday that he found it “fascinating” that some of the opposition to the Common Core State Standards has come from …
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Reid J. Epstein / Politico:
Scott Walker: Next GOP presidential nominee must be a governor — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says Republicans must pick a governor or a former governor as its presidential nominee in 2016 to maintain a proper outsider ethos. — “I think its got to be an outsider, I think both the presidential …
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Reid J. Epstein / Politico:
Woodward: Obamacare not Watergate, but it ‘is going to get worse’ — President Barack Obama's mishandling of the Affordable Care Act rollout has been incompetent, Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward said, but it doesn't rise to past president-dooming scandals.
Helen T. Verongos / New York Times:
Doris Lessing, Novelist Who Won 2007 Nobel, Is Dead at 94 — Doris Lessing, the uninhibited and outspoken novelist who won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature for a lifetime of writing that shattered convention, both social and artistic, died on Sunday at her home in London. She was 94.
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Three Burials of Obamacare — THE first time Obamacare seemed finished, doomed, doornail-dead, the voters of Massachusetts played the would-be executioner. In January 2010, they sent a pickup-driving Republican to the Senate to fill Ted Kennedy's seat, apparently depriving the health care bill …
Reuters:
Fast-moving storm, tornadoes threaten in U.S. Midwest — (Reuters) - A fast-moving storm system that produced at least one tornado in Illinois threatened some 53 million people across 10 Midwestern states on Sunday, U.S. weather officials said. — “A confirmed large and extremely dangerous tornado” …
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Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:
Martin O'Malley Takes “Believe” Campaign To The Presidential Stage — In a speech to New Hampshire Democrats, the possible presidential hopeful turns his Baltimore campaign into a national argument. But for Warren and Clinton supporters, the focus isn't O'Malley. — AFP / Getty Images
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Four years ago, GOP showed exactly what was false about Obama's keep-your-coverage promise — It is now painfully evident to millions of Americans that President Obama's promise that they could keep their current health coverage under Obamacare wasn't true.
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