President Obama says the Affordable Care Act is expanding health insurance coverage and helping rein in health care costs, and that the debate over repealing the law is "over."
April 13: McCain, Blackburn, Cummings
The latest on the crisis in Ukraine and Obamacare, and a reflection on the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights Act, wit Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Reps. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and Elijah Cummings, D-Md.
April 13: McCain, Blackburn, Cummings
The latest on the crisis in Ukraine and Obamacare, and a reflection on the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights Act, wit Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Reps. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and Elijah Cummings, D-Md.
April 13: McCain, Blackburn, Cummings
The latest on the crisis in Ukraine and Obamacare, and a reflection on the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights Act, wit Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Reps. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and Elijah Cummings, D-Md.
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Miss the second half of the show? The latest on the crisis in Ukraine and Obamacare. Plus a panel of experts.
Kathleen Sebelius: Health care reform “the cause of my life”
Outgoing Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius looks back at her work implementing Obamacare.
Obama: Kathleen Sebelius deserves credit for Obamacare success
President Obama praises the legacy of outgoing Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, saying health insurance has expanded and cost growth has slowed under her watch.
April 6: Pfeiffer, McCaul, Friedman, Cullen
The latest on the Fort Hood shooting, the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, Obamacare, and a discussion on climate change with White House senior advisor Dan Pfeiffer, Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, and more.
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Miss the second half of the show? The latest on the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, Obamacare, and a discussion on climate change.
Biden and Harris head to Georgia to meet community leaders after Atlanta shooting – live updates
President and vice president will also visit the CDC while in Georgia
- Asian American lawmakers say violence has reached ‘crisis point’
- US and China publicly rebuke each other in first major talks of Biden era
- House passes bill that would give Dreamers a path to citizenship
- Podcast: Why Medicare for All is a political headache
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A qukck one from Reuters here, that fresh from his talks with top officials from China – there’s a further meeting in Anchorage, Alaska today – Antony Blinken will be headed to Europe on his next diplomatic mission.
He will visit Brussels next week to meet with Nato foreign ministers and European Union officials, the US Department of State said, as the Biden administration seeks to repair transatlantic ties.
Joan Biskupic, CNN’s legal analyst has an interesting piece this morning arguing that the Supreme Court’s conservatives want to topple abortion rights – but can’t seem to agree on how. She writes:
The aims of individual justices, based on their recent writings, range from reversing Roe v. Wade to forbidding clinics from challenging restrictions on behalf of women to relaxing the standard that states must meet to limit women’s access to the procedure.
New internal tensions in the age-old controversy have emerged, as the six Republican-appointed justices on the right wing diverge on curtailing precedent and more sharply clash with the court’s three remaining Democratic-appointed liberals. The justices could move a step closer to their next chapter as they meet privately on Friday to consider whether to take up Mississippi’s ban on abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
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