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11:35 AM ET, March 12, 2017

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Kailani Koenig / NBC News:
HHS Sec. Tom Price: ‘Nobody Will Be Worse Off Financially’ Under GOP Health Plan  —  WASHINGTON — No one will be adversely affected by the Republicans' new health care bill once its enacted, according to Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price.  —  “I firmly believe that nobody …
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Price on Obamacare replacement: ‘Nobody will be worse off financially’  —  Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price said Sunday that “nobody will be worse off financially” after Republicans in Congress repeal and replace Obamacare.  —  “I firmly believe that nobody will be worse off financially …
Riley Beggin / ABC News:
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
The Intercept:
Next Phase of Obamacare Repeal Will Target Mandate Requiring Prenatal Coverage, GOP Leader Tells Allies  —  Photo: Cristina M. Fletes/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/TNS/Getty Images  —  When Republican Congressman John Shimkus expressed outrage during a House committee hearing Wednesday …
New York Times:
The G.O.P.'s High-Risk Strategy for Health Law Repeal  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump and House Republicans are pressing forward with a high-risk strategy to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, disregarding the views of medical professionals and potentially imperiling …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Graham Moomaw / Richmond Times-Dispatch:
Amid Trump resistance, Virginia Democrats see surge of candidates for House of Delegates  —  After retiring from her environmental law career, Mary Jo Sheeley spent much of her newfound free time volunteering for the Hillary Clinton campaign.  Upset by President Donald Trump's victory …
Jessica Contrera / Washington Post:
They are poor, sick and voted for Trump.  What will happen to them without Obamacare?  —  Another morning, another list  —  of patients and problems in the hands of 35-year-old Keisha Saunders.  Diabetes, depression, heart disease.  Robert needs lower blood pressure.  Buffy needs prescriptions filled.
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Brian Whitehead / Orange County Register:
Rep. Darrell Issa's town halls draw more than 1,000 people, including crowds of protesters  —  OCEANSIDE - More than 1,000 people showed up at two town halls on Saturday to hear Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Vista, explain his stances on a variety of hot-button issues.
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Los Angeles Times:
Reps. Issa and Hunter confronted by protesters at separate town halls
Discussion: The American Mirror
The Hill:
The future of politics is grassroots  —  Raucous pop-up and planned weekly public demonstrations, jam-packed town hall meetings, and millions of donations, emails, phone calls, social media posts, editorials and petitions have all been commonplace with the new administration and the 115th Congress.
Discussion: Political Wire
Rick Hasen / electionlawblog.org:
Analysis: Texas Redistricting Decision Major Victory for Voting Rights Bar and May Pave Way for Texas to Be Back under Federal Supervision  —  Last night I linked to the extensive ruling and findings of fact and conclusions of law in a very long-running dispute about whether Texas's congressional districting …
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Manny Fernandez / New York Times:   Texas Congressional Maps Are Struck Down for Discrimination
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
The Dangerous Safety of College  —  The moral of the recent melee at Middlebury College, where students shouted down and chased away a controversial social scientist, isn't just about free speech, though that's the rubric under which the ugly incident has been tucked.  It's about emotional coddling.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Griff Witte / Washington Post:
Anti-immigrant anger threatens to remake the liberal Netherlands  —  AMSTERDAM — Xandra Lammers lives on an island in Amsterdam, the back door of her modern and spacious four-bedroom house opening onto a graceful canal where ducks, swans and canoes glide by.
Max Fisher / New York Times:
What Happens When You Fight a ‘Deep State’ That Doesn't Exist  —  The Trump administration, in its fight against the “deep state,” could risk exacerbating the very problems it has pinned on shadowy bureaucratic forces: leaking, internal conflict and the politicization of institutions like intelligence agencies.
Discussion: AOL
New York Times:
Trump Adviser Had Twitter Contact With Figure Tied to Russians  —  WASHINGTON — Roger J. Stone Jr., an off-and-on adviser to President Trump for decades, has acknowledged that he had contact on Twitter with Guccifer 2.0, the mysterious online figure that is believed to be a front for Russian intelligence officials.
Mitch Smith / New York Times:
New Ferguson Video Adds Wrinkle to Michael Brown Case  —  In the two and a half years since Michael Brown, a black 18-year-old, was shot and killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo., the explosive case has been parsed in intricate detail.  Witnesses offered varying descriptions of the fatal encounter.
Discussion: The Root
Heather Caygle / Politico:
Democrats to turn Obamacare attacks against GOP in 2018  —  The past four election cycles, Democrats have been battered and bruised by political attacks over Obamacare.  —  Now, they say, the time has finally arrived to take the fight to Republicans.  —  With the GOP in charge of Washington …
Discussion: Mother Jones
Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:
“None Of It Made Sense”: Martin O'Malley's Long Year After Running For President  —  O'Malley answers questions last spring at a panel in Washington.  —  Drew Angerer / Getty Images  —  Martin O'Malley remembers running for president like this: He is on a train, heading for a bridge.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Preet Bharara Is Said to Refuse Order to Step Down as U.S. Attorney  —  Preet Bharara, the Manhattan federal prosecutor who was told to submit his resignation along with 45 others on Friday, has no plans to do so — forcing a potential showdown with President Trump and the Department of Justice.
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Washington Post:
New York federal prosecutor Preet Bharara has not submitted resignation
 
 
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Joe Uchill / The Hill:
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WPTV:
Man tries to burn store he thought was Muslim-owned, St. Lucie Co. Sheriff's Office says
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Liberal Bullying On Campus: A Case Study
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Julia Marsh / New York Post:
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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Trump makes ninth golf course visit in seven weeks in office
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