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Breaking News: Congress approves historic legislation extending health care to tens of millions of uninsured Americans
Staff reporterWASHINGTON (AP) - Summoned to success by President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled Congress approved historic legislation Sunday night extending health care to tens of millions of uninsured Americans and cracking down on insurance company abuses,...Tags: Medicare, Insurance, Corporate Crime, State Budgets, Family
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Health Bill to Tax High-Earners
The Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — High-income families would be hit with a tax increase on wages and a new levy on investments under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul bill. For the first time, the Medicare payroll tax would be applied to investment...Tags: Imports, Medicare, Small Businesses, Politics, Republican Party
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GOP Senators In Final Drive To Stall Health Bill
Associated PressWASHINGTON -- In a final drive to thwart President Barack Obama's health care remake, Republican senators plan to force Democrats to run a gantlet of politically dicey votes before they can finish a companion bill to the landmark law. Voting was expected...Tags: Medicare, Insurance, Corporate Crime, State Budgets, Family
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Experts Weigh in on Health Reform
The Associated PressPresident Barack Obama's health care overhaul law is getting a mixed verdict in the first comprehensive look by neutral experts: More Americans will be covered, but costs are also going up. Economic experts at the Health and Human Services Department...Tags: Medicare, Republican Party, Insurance, Bankruptcy, Justice System
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Reform To Raise Taxes for High Earners
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWith enactment of his signature healthcare law, President Obama has also made good on another major campaign promise: to ease the tax burden on middle-class Americans and pay for his domestic agenda by raising taxes on the wealthy. And for upper-income...Tags: Medicare, Politics, Republican Party, State Budgets, Family
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Health Care Reform Poll Results
The Associated PressOpposition to President Barack Obama's health care law jumped after he signed it, a clear indication his victory could become a liability for Democrats in this fall's elections. A new Associated Press-GfK poll finds Americans oppose the health care...Tags: Medicare, Republican Party, Gaming, Justice System, Lawyers
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Middle Class Face Tax Penalty
The Associated PressNearly 4 million Americans; the vast majority of them middle class; will have to pay a penalty if they don't get insurance when President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law kicks in, according to congressional estimates released Thursday. The...Tags: State Budgets, Barack Obama, White House, Social Issues, Congressional Budget Office
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Democrats Defeat Health Reform Challenge
The Associated PressHouse Democrats have easily defeated a Republican attempt to roll back a major provision of the nation's new health care law requiring most people to get health insurance. Republicans tried to amend a small business tax bill with a provision that would...Tags: Republican Party, Crime, Law and Justice, Medical Services, Social Issues, Health Insurance
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Lawmakers Introduce New Asian Carp Legislation
FOX 17 NewsLegislation has been introduced to speed up research on ways to stop the spread of the invasive Asian carp by permanently separating waterways linking the Mississippi River and the Great Lakes. Democratic U.S. Sens. Debbie Stabenow of Michigan and Dick...Tags: Laws, U.S. Army, Debbie Stabenow, Dick Durbin, Armed Forces
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Obama, healthcare: 'This isn't about me'
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated at 8:30 pm EDT Attempting to focus Americans on a promise of better healthcare for all and insurance for those without it, President Barack Obama used a prime-time televised news conference tonight to rebut the......Tags: National Government, Republican Party, Budgets and Budgeting, Television Industry, Barack Obama
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Health-care TV ad wars underway
The Swampby Mark Silva In the roiling mix of political crosswinds that may come to characterize the 2009-2010 elections -- in which a Republican quit one congressional race to campaign for the winning Democrat, and in which the president's party was......Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Tom Latham, Mary Bono, Insurance, Roanoke (Roanoke, Virginia)
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House approves $290 billion increase in debt limit to fund government through Feb. 11
Associated Press WriterWASHINGTON (AP) — The House on Wednesday passed legislation giving the federal government the ability to borrow a whopping $290 billion to finance its operations for just six additional weeks. The 218-214 vote sends the must-pass bill to the...Tags: Corruption, Politics, Republican Party, Corporate Crime, Laws
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