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  • Philip Klein: Obamacare's rate shock hits the Buckeye state

    By Philip Klein | 06/12/13 04:35 PM

    Ohio Department of Insurance officials announced last week that average premiums in the Buckeye state would soar 88 percent once President Obama's health care law kicks in. The news added fuel to an already raging debate over Obamacare's effect on insurance costs. Ohio's insurance department...

  • Biden: The last thing we need is another Ted Cruz or Rand Paul in the Senate

    By Charlie Spiering | 06/12/13 11:45 AM

    During a fundraiser for Massachusetts Senate Candidate Ed Markey last night, Vice President Biden explained that it was more important than ever to keep Republicans out of the Senate. “I’m not talking about the character or even the quality of the minds of the people I’m going to...

  • Senate immigration vote: A done deal, not necessarily a prediction

    By Byron York | 06/12/13 07:50 AM

    When the Senate takes a vote, there’s a period in which senators stand around the well of the chamber, chatting in groups of two and three, while fellow lawmakers come in and out to cast votes. When that was happening Tuesday on a motion to move to debate on the Gang of Eight comprehensive...

  • Joe Biden: Supreme Court was wrong; Al Gore was elected president of the United States

    By Charlie Spiering | 06/12/13 06:25 AM

    Vice President Joe Biden praised former Vice President Al Gore who was present during a fundraiser for Massachusetts Senate Candidate Ed Markey asserting that Gore had actually won the the 2000 presidential election. With characteristic hyperbole, Biden introduced the former Vice President...

  • Michael Barone: NSA surveillance, if ungentlemanly, is not illegal

    By Michael Barone | 06/11/13 06:35 PM

    "Gentlemen do not read each other's mail." That's what Secretary of State Henry Stimson said to explain why he shut down the government's cryptanalysis operations in 1929. Edward Snowden, who leaked National Security Agency surveillance projects to Britain's Guardian, evidently feels the same...

  • Obama challenges GOP on immigration as Senate advances bill

    By Brian Hughes | 06/11/13 05:45 PM

    In a thinly veiled threat to congressional Republicans, President Obama on Tuesday warned the GOP not to obstruct a comprehensive immigration-reform bill now advancing in the Senate, ending his virtual silence on an issue paramount to his second-term agenda. "If you're actually serious and...

  • CBO: Debt limit deadline won’t hit until Oct. or Nov.

    By Philip Klein | 06/11/13 04:10 PM

    Due to a rosier deficit outlook, the Congressional Budget Office now projects that Congress has until October or November to reach an agreement to raise the debt limit. Currently, the debt limit stands at $16.7 trillion. Starting on May 17, the Treasury Department began using “extraordinary...

  • Reid: Lawmakers should stop complaining about being in the dark on NSA surveillance

    By Susan Ferrechio | 06/11/13 03:55 PM

    Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said lawmakers should stop complaining that they were unaware the National Security Administration was tracking the phone records of millions of Americans. Lawmakers in the House and Senate have said in recent days they were not informed about the NSA...

  • Approve: George W. Bush’s favorability reaches post-presidency high

    By Joel Gehrke | 06/11/13 03:55 PM

    More Americans remember George W. Bush approvingly than negatively, according to a new survey released with Washington mired in scandals and President Obama under fire for expanding his predecessor’s surveillance of Americans. Forty-nine percent of Americans view Bush favorably while 46...

  • Poll: Email privacy more important to Americans than phone records

    By Charlie Spiering | 06/11/13 09:35 AM

    A new Pew Research/Washington Post poll shows that 56 percent of Americans are comfortable with the federal government tracking phone call records as part of its investigations of terrorism. Forty-one percent indicated that it was unacceptable. (Two percent didn’t know.) The poll was taken...


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