By Ed Henry, CNN Senior White House Correspondent March 24, 2010 2:58 a.m. EDT Washington (CNN) — Democratic legislators in 40 Congressional districts are about to see TV ads thanking them for their support of the health care reform bill the president signed into law Tuesday, Democratic officials told CNN. The $5 million ad campaign [...]

Report Slams Obama Administration’s Goals for Assistance Program, Says it Won’t Stem Foreclosure Epidemic Mar 24, 2010 (AP)  A government watchdog is criticizing the Obama administration for establishing a “meaningless” goal for its flagship mortgage assistance program. The report issued late Tuesday by Neil Barofsky, the special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, [...]

Meet Parliamentarian Alan Frumin, Key Player in Shaping Final Health Care Reform Law By Z. BYRON WOLF WASHINGTON, March 24, 2010 Meet Alan Frumin. He is the mustachioed Senate parliamentarian. He doesn’t give interviews and avoids the public eye. Capitol Hillpress photographers have had little luck snapping his picture, but Frumin is about to play [...]

Mar 23, 6:42 AM (ET) By MICHAEL TARM CHICAGO (AP) – The once mighty community activist group ACORN announced Monday it is folding amid falling revenues – six months after video footage emerged showing some of its workers giving tax tips to conservative activists posing as a pimp and prostitute. “It’s really declining revenue in [...]

Contentious Hearing for Lower Court Nominee to Foreshadow High Court Battles to Come By ARIANE de VOGUE March 22, 2010 There is a Supreme Court battle brewing on Capitol Hill — despite the fact that there are currently no vacancies on the high court. On Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold hearings to consider [...]

By Ben Hall in Paris Published: March 23 2010 16:28 | Last updated: March 23 2010 16:28 The French government on Wednesday said it would abandon its plan to introduce a carbon tax on domestic energy and road fuels unless there was agreement for a European Union-wide levy. The U-turn on the controversial environmental tax [...]

Was this Yet Another Backroom Deal to Force Obama’s Bill Down the American People’s Throats? Three airports in the district of infamous fence-sitting and ultimately kowtowing Democrat Bart Stupak were awarded $726,409 in grants by the Obama Administration just two days before a vote on Obama and Pelosi’s government takeover of healthcare. Did Stupak compromise [...]

By Shannon Pettypiece and Alex Nussbaum March 23 (Bloomberg) — Indoor tanning salons will charge customers a 10 percent tax beginning today in just one of the changes Americans will see as a result of the U.S. health-care overhaul signed into law by President Barack Obama. Insurers will be required by September to begin providing [...]

By Pat Wechsler March 23 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama faces a fight over the health-care overhaul from states that sued today because the legislation’s expansion of Medicaid imposes a fiscal strain on their cash-strapped budgets. Florida, Texas and Pennsylvania are among 14 states that filed suit after the president signed the bill over the [...]

Social Bookmarking