The president spoke this week with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi about the Israeli strikes in Gaza. “The President reiterated to Prime Minister Netanyahu the United States’ support for Israel’s right to self-defense in light of the barrage of rocket attacks being launched from Gaza...
Obama is pressuring lawmakers to complete work on immigration next year—and making progress quickly is actually doable, as National Journal’s Fawn Johnson reports. Under the administration’s vision, “he is simply picking up the conversation where it left off in 2007, when a massive immigration bill died on the Senate floor,”...
Wonks are waging war over the issue of a carbon tax, as think tanks and economists ramp up support for the idea as a one-stop grand bargain to solve climate change and fix the deficit. Meanwhile, the fossil-fuel industry is bringing in the big guns to fight back. But the...
The House Republican leadership team has signed a pledge that in the 113th Congress, they will “oppose any legislation relating to climate change that includes a net increase in current government revenue.”
Under pressure from Republican governors to push back the deadline for states to declare whether they’ll run their own exchange, the Obama administration yesterday announced they’d give states another month to submit their letters of intent. The delay came literally one day before the administration’s original deadline, and it came...
While the health care world this week is closely watching which states will sign up to run their own exchanges, governors are also slowly starting to drop small hints about their intentions for the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion. A handful of governors have already said they’ll use the state...
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