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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Health Secretary Resigns After Woes of HealthCare.gov — WASHINGTON — Kathleen Sebelius, the health and human services secretary, is resigning, ending a stormy five-year tenure marred by the disastrous rollout of President Obama's signature legislative achievement, the Affordable Care Act.
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
Kathleen Sebelius is resigning because Obamacare has won — Obamacare has won. And that's why Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius can resign. — Calls for Sebelius's resignation were almost constant after Obamacare's catastrophic launch.
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Ben Domenech / The Federalist:
Kathleen Sebelius's Resignation Hands Republicans A Golden Opportunity — Kathleen Sebelius is resigning, and Rachel Maddow is right to not be happy about it, not one little bit. For once, I completely agree with Maddow's analysis. This surprise resignation presents Republicans …
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Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
The Sebelius Legacy: One Epic Tech Failure, Millions of Newly Insured Americans — On Thursday morning, Kathleen Sebelius testified before Congress and announced that Obamacare signups had reached 7.5 million people. — On Thursday evening, news broke that Sebelius was stepping down as Secretary of Health and Human Services.
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Bloomberg:
Sebelius to Resign as Chief of Obama's Health Programs — Kathleen Sebelius, the U.S. health secretary who steered the troubled rollout of President Barack Obama's signature health-care law, will resign just as the program topped its first-year enrollment goal.
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Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Will Kathleen Sebelius Win in the End? Legacy Tied to Obamacare's Outcome
Will Kathleen Sebelius Win in the End? Legacy Tied to Obamacare's Outcome
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Joanne Kenen / Politico:
Kathleen Sebelius resigns as HHS secretary
Kathleen Sebelius resigns as HHS secretary
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USA Today:
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius resigns
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius resigns
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Kathleen Sebelius / CNN:
Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius resigning
Jeff Zeleny / ABC News:
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius Resigning
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius Resigning
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Short on accomplishments, Hillary leans on Bill and Barack to sell candidacy — BARACK OBAMA HILLARY CLINTON BILL CLINTON 2016 ELECTIONS — Last week Hillary Clinton gave what appeared at first to be a rambling and unfocused answer when asked to name the proudest achievement of her four years as Secretary of State.
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Laura Myers / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Shoe misses Hillary as she speaks at recycling conference in Las Vegas — A female protester threw what she said was a shoe at Hillary Clinton near the start of the Democrat's speech at a metal recycling conference in Las Vegas on Thursday. — Authorities said they were arresting the woman, who would not give her name.
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Katie Glueck / Politico:
Reports: ‘Shoe’ thrown at Hillary Clinton in Las Vegas
Samantha Power / US Department of State:
Remarks by Ambassador Samantha Power, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, at a General Assembly Session on Improving Global Road Safety — U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations — Mr. President, colleagues, the United States is pleased to cosponsor and urge …
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Jeryl Bier / Weekly Standard:
U.S. Cosponsors U.N. Resolution to Fight Texting and Driving — While crises continue in Ukraine, Syria, Iran, and the Central African Republic, the United Nations turned its attention to a different kind of crisis on Thursday: the “global road safety crisis.”
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Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
The IRS Scandal Comes Into Focus — House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp lays out damning evidence of Lois Lerner's targeting of conservative groups. — Nearly a year into the IRS scandal, we still don't know exactly what happened—though we are finally getting an inkling.
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Rush Limbaugh:
CBS Declares War on Heartland of America — RUSH: Do you really care what I think about that? (interruption) Do you care what I think of Colbert getting Letterman's gig? (interruption) You really care about what I think about that? (interruption) Well, I'll give you the short version.
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Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
Colbert to Succeed Letterman on ‘Late Show’
Colbert to Succeed Letterman on ‘Late Show’
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Aaron David Miller / CNN:
Carter's wrong to blame Obama, Clinton — John Kerry's travels … (CNN) — First some full disclosure: Former President Jimmy Carter has been pretty good to me. He gave me in-person interviews for my last book and a forthcoming one on the end of greatness in the presidency.
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Steven L. Spiegel / Los Angeles Times:
Memo to John Kerry: Stay strong on the Middle East
Memo to John Kerry: Stay strong on the Middle East
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Ted Barrett / CNN:
Anger over last year's filibuster fight rekindles on Senate floor — Washington (CNN) - Fallout from last year's fight over filibuster rules in the Senate is still being felt on Capitol Hill. — Senators had hoped to finish their work and begin a two week spring recess Thursday but instead ran …
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Harry Reid, Mitch McConnell battle on the floor
Harry Reid, Mitch McConnell battle on the floor
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Health Care Nightmares — When it comes to health reform, Republicans suffer from delusions of disaster. They know, just know, that the Affordable Care Act is doomed to utter failure, so failure is what they see, never mind the facts on the ground. — Thus, on Tuesday, Mitch McConnell …
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali / Wall Street Journal:
Here's What I Would Have Said at Brandeis — We need to make our universities temples not of dogmatic orthodoxy, but of truly critical thinking. — On Tuesday, after protests by students, faculty and outside groups, Brandeis University revoked its invitation to Ayaan Hirsi Ali to receive …
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Washington Post:
Democrats embrace adding photos to Social Security cards — As Republicans push for new voting restrictions around the country, a handful of Democrats have coalesced around an impromptu idea: placing a photo on Social Security cards. — Former U.N. ambassador and civil rights activist Andrew Young …
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