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Federal Judge Declares Obamacare Unconstitutional
Tweet Share on Facebook January 31, 2011 Comment (36)In a stunning setback for President Barack Obama in his drive to remake the U.S. healthcare system, a federal judge ruled Monday that a key provision of the new law was unconstitutional and therefore, “the entire act must be declared void.”
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Obama Needs Outside Help Handling Egypt Protests
Tweet Share on Facebook January 31, 2011 Comment (7)Events in Egypt present the Obama administration with its most serious foreign policy crisis to date—serious because, unlike the other issues on the table, it is not likely to be resolved in the short term and could easily go in a way that runs counter to U.S. strategic and economic long-term interests.
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Obama's Corporate Tax Cut Could Be a Tax Hike
Tweet Share on Facebook January 28, 2011 Comment (6)In an otherwise largely forgettable State of the Union address, President Barack Obama surprisingly called for a cut in the U.S. corporate income tax rate.
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GOP Budget Cut Battle Shows Party Health
Tweet Share on Facebook January 25, 2011 Comment (3)In the campaign that recently ended, the House Republicans made—as part of their “Pledge to America”—the promise that they would cut $100 billion out of the federal budget over the course of fiscal year 2011.
It's a promise that has created some trouble for them. The U.S. fiscal year begins in October, meaning we're almost a third of the way through it, a fact that has led some GOP leaders to redefine the number downwards.
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State of the Union Is High Risk, Low Reward for Obama
Tweet Share on Facebook January 25, 2011 Comment (3)With his approval numbers gently rebounding in the aftermath of his Tucson speech, President Barack Obama has been presented with the opportunity to use Tuesday night’s State of the Union address to redefine his presidency.
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Does Obama Fear a Hillary Clinton Primary Challenge?
Tweet Share on Facebook January 21, 2011 Comment (26)If there was ever a sign that the White House is nervous about 2012, it’s the news that a covey of senior White House aides and Democratic National Committee operatives are headed to Chicago to open President Barack Obama’s re-election headquarters—nearly two years in advance of the election.
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Republican Health Reform Repeal Vote Is Just First Step
Tweet Share on Facebook January 20, 2011 Comment (32)By a vote of 245 to 189, the U.S. House of Representatives voted Wednesday to repeal the new national healthcare law commonly referred to as “Obamacare.”
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Prominent Economists Urge Obamacare Repeal
Tweet Share on Facebook January 18, 2011 Comment (30)In the run up to Wednesday’s vote in the U.S. House of Representatives to abolish “Obamacare,” a group of prominent economists—including several former members of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers and two former directors of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office—have written the congressional leadership urging its repeal.
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GOP Must Address Immigration Reform
Tweet Share on Facebook January 18, 2011 Comment (28)As Congress continues to punt on the immigration issue, a group of prominent GOP leaders urged them to take up comprehensive immigration as a way to win votes in the nation’s burgeoning Hispanic electorate.
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Americans Want Changes to Obama's Healthcare Reform
Tweet Share on Facebook January 14, 2011 Comment (15)Continuing to press for repeal of the nation’s new healthcare law keeps the Republicans in sync with a vast majority of the U.S. electorate. According to the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey, released Friday, voters "overwhelmingly want to see last year’s healthcare law changed."
