The Hill: The new healthcare law will pack 32 million newly insured people into emergency rooms already crammed beyond capacity, according to experts on healthcare facilities. A chief aim of the new healthcare law was to take the pressure off emergency rooms by mandating that people either have insurance coverage. The idea was that if [...]
The Hill: Republicans introduced a new argument against Elena Kagan’s nomination today, suggesting she believes in banning books. In an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) pointed to the argument Kagan’s office made before the Supreme Court in Citizens United vs. FEC, a controversial campaign finance case. “Solicitor Kagan’s [...]
Politico: Sarah Palin’s political portfolio for the midterm election is beginning to take shape, and the races that interest her appear to share a similar trait—for the most part, they involve a woman on one side of the ballot or the other. Already she’s embraced a handful of conservative Republican women in House, Senate and [...]
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PITTSBURGH (AP) – Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter’s Democratic primary challenger says the five-term incumbent’s comments about him reflect a “desperate” candidate. U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak appeared at a rally in Pittsburgh on Saturday. He repeated his claim that Specter switched parties to save his job and says Specter’s demand that Sestak release his military records [...]
May 16 (Bloomberg) — Greece is considering taking legal action against U.S. investment banks that might have contributed to the country’s debt crisis, Prime Minister George Papandreou said. “I wouldn’t rule out that this may be a recourse,†Papandreou said, in response to questions about the role of U.S. banks in the crisis, in an [...]
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The Hill: One of the nation’s most influential labor groups and a civil rights organization on Friday urged Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to end programs with Arizona law enforcement agencies over the state’s controversial immigration law. The AFL-CIO and the Leadership Conference penned a letter to Napolitano, saying that while the administration has said [...]
Real Clear Politics: After reaching the lowest levels of the administration thus far a month ago, there’s quietly been something of a mini-resurgence in President Obama’s job ratings. While approval is still below 50 percent, disapproval has fallen to a nearly four-month low in the RCP average, and net approval near its best mark in [...]
