October 24, 2013
Politics
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White House resisting pressure from vulnerable Democrats for delay in Obamacare mandate but will tweak deadline
By SUSAN FERRECHIO | 10/24/13 07:05 AM
The White House is under pressure from vulnerable Democratic lawmakers to delay the Obamacare deadline for people to sign up for health insurance. The Obama administration has no immediate plans...
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White House looks to boost Obamacare enrollment after meeting with health CEOs
By BRIAN HUGHES | 10/23/13 04:48 PM
Senior administration officials and health insurance executives in a meeting at the White House on Wednesday discussed...
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White House: Obama 'firmly believes' immigration reform can pass by year's end
By SUSAN CRABTREE | 10/23/13 03:39 PM
White House press secretary Jay Carney on Wednesday said President Obama believes an immigration bill can pass Congress...
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White House
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White House, Congress, Immigration, Barack Obama, House of Representatives, PennAve
Obama presses House GOP to pass immigration reform by year's end
By Susan Crabtree | 10/24/13 12:02 PM
President Obama tried to shift the spotlight away from scrutiny over Obamacare's rocky rollout to immigration reform, calling on House Republicans to overcome internal divisions on the issue and...
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White House, Washington Secrets, Barack Obama, Obamacare, Health Care, Entitlements
Even Obama's health care costs jump --- 48 percent --- under Obamacare
By Paul Bedard | 10/24/13 10:33 AM
Oops. This wasn’t supposed to happen. Under Obamacare, even President Obama would see a shocking jump in insurance costs by more than 48 percent in some state insurance exchanges such as...
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Beltway Confidential, White House, Morning Examiner, Obamacare, Health and Human Services, Health Care, Entitlements
The first step in recovery is admitting the cover-up always fails
By Mark Tapscott | 10/24/13 09:02 AM
Among the most familiar lessons of the Watergate scandal is the maxim that the cover-up is always worse than the original crime. It continues to amaze nearly four decades later that so many in...
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Congress
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Beltway Confidential, Congress, Obamacare, Health and Human Services, Health Care
Anna Eshoo says don't blame Obamacare site ills on high traffic volume
By Ashe Schow | 10/24/13 12:11 PM
Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., took the creators of the flailing Healthcare.gov website to task Thursday, saying it was a “lame excuse” for them to blame the website’s glitches on “unexpected...
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White House, Congress, Immigration, Barack Obama, House of Representatives, PennAve
Obama presses House GOP to pass immigration reform by year's end
By Susan Crabtree | 10/24/13 12:02 PM
President Obama tried to shift the spotlight away from scrutiny over Obamacare's rocky rollout to immigration reform, calling on House Republicans to overcome internal divisions on the issue and...
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Congress, Constitutionality, Government shutdown
Only drunk dialers seriously think Congress has just one job
By Gregory Kane | 10/24/13 11:52 AM
Today, civics class, we'll tackle the subject of exactly how many jobs it is that our Congress has. The latest liberal rant is that Congress has “only one job” – to fund the federal...
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Washington Secrets
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White House, Washington Secrets, Barack Obama, Obamacare, Health Care, Entitlements
Even Obama's health care costs jump --- 48 percent --- under Obamacare
By Paul Bedard | 10/24/13 10:33 AM
Oops. This wasn’t supposed to happen. Under Obamacare, even President Obama would see a shocking jump in insurance costs by more than 48 percent in some state insurance exchanges such as...
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Virginia, Transportation, Washington Secrets
States warn: Most deer collisions happen in October-December
By Paul Bedard | 10/24/13 10:16 AM
The explosion of the deer population around the nation has states warning drivers to watch out for whitetails through December, when deer are mating and anxious does are willing to chance a...
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Virginia, Washington Secrets, Bill Clinton, Terry McAuliffe, Campaigns, 2013 Virginia Governor Race
Ad: 'Terry McAuliffe will say anything to get elected'
By Paul Bedard | 10/23/13 05:36 PM
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe is coming under new fire for failing to make good on promises to provide jobs in Virginia and his penchant for making flamboyant and sometimes...
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Penn Ave
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White House, Congress, Immigration, Barack Obama, House of Representatives, PennAve
Obama presses House GOP to pass immigration reform by year's end
By Susan Crabtree | 10/24/13 12:02 PM
President Obama tried to shift the spotlight away from scrutiny over Obamacare's rocky rollout to immigration reform, calling on House Republicans to overcome internal divisions on the issue and...
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Jobs, Fiscal Policy, PennAve, Economy, Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, Budgets and Deficits, Janet Yellen, Larry Summers
Larry Summers: Austerity has been a 'grievous error'
By Joseph Lawler | 10/24/13 11:25 AM
Harvard professor Larry Summers struck an unusually aggressive liberal tone Thursday morning, denouncing the "austerity" of the past few years as "a grievous error" and calling for increased...
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Obamacare, Google, Health Care, 2014 Elections, 2016 Elections, PennAve, Donald Trump, CGI Federal
Donald Trump: Google should have engineered Obamacare website
By Rebecca Berg | 10/24/13 09:15 AM
Had businessman and Republican donor Donald Trump been at the helm of the beleaguered Obamacare website Healthcare.gov, he would have gone straight to Google to engineer the site, he said...
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Campaigns
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Massachusetts, 2014 Elections, Campaigns
Second Democrat jumps into race for Massachusetts attorney general
By Associated Press | 10/24/13 09:29 AM
BOSTON — A second Democrat on Thursday formally announced his candidacy for the state's top law enforcement office. Clinton state Rep. Harold Naughton released a video making public his plans...
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Immigration, Texas, 2014 Elections, Campaigns, John Cornyn
Immigration activist Linda Vega challenging John Cornyn in Texas GOP primary
By Associated Press | 10/24/13 08:56 AM
AUSTIN, Texas — Attorney and immigration activist Linda Vega announced Wednesday she will challenge incumbent U.S. Sen. John Cornyn in next year's Republican primary.
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Obamacare, Campaigns, PennAve, Budgets and Deficits, Government shutdown
House GOP rebounds with new focus on investigating Obamacare problems
By David M. Drucker | 10/23/13 06:08 PM
House Republicans hope to dig themselves out of a politically damaging government shutdown with a renewed focus on governing and aggressive oversight of Obamacare's troubled rollout. Convening...
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From the Weekly Standard
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Millions of Americans Are Losing Their Health Plans Because of Obamacare
While the Affordable Care Act was making its way through Congress in 2009 and 2010, President Obama famously promised the American people over and over again that if you like your health plan, you...
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Obama ‘Impatient’ and ‘Disengaged’
A long New York Times story today details the quarrels and vicissitudes that have marked the Obama White House’s Syria policy over the last two and a half years. Some senior officials...
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Kristol Podcast: To Seize this Opportunity, the GOP Needs an Obamacare Strategy
The WEEKLY STANDARD podcast with editor William Kristol on what Republicans should do to seize the on the opportunity provided by the floundering opening of Obamacare's exchanges.
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