Obama jetted to Minneapolis Monday and, after meeting with law enforcement officials and local leaders, delivered a campaign-style address touting his proposal to expand background checks and ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazine clips. WIDE MAJORITIES FAVOR NEW GUN LAWS A wide majority of Americans favor new gun laws similar...
President Obama announced the nomination of Sally Jewell, chief executive of the outdoor retailer REI as Interior secretary. Jewell is the first female to be tapped for Obama’s second-term Cabinet. Full line up of Cabinet positions left to fill. NEW SENATOR Vice President Biden swore in William "Mo" Cowan as...
President Obama’s longtime head speechwriter, Jon Favreau, will leave the White House for Hollywood in March, the Los Angeles Times reports.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced a long-awaited final rule designed to increase public awareness of the financial relationships between drug and device manufacturers and certain health care providers. Under the rule, CMS will collect and post data about hospitals and physicians that accept payments or other transfers...
National Journal reports, “Buried in the latest Congressional Budget Office numbers was some medicine for a perennial thorn in Congress’s side: the reviled Medicare payment formula called the “sustainable growth rate.” Congress goes through an annual ritual of passing the so-called “doc fix” to prevent sharp cuts in Medicare’s reimbursement...
2013 is off to a disappointing start for political junkies. What once looked like an off-year full of tantalizing races has suffered from a series of missed opportunities. From the Hotline, “the contest to replace Secretary of State John Kerry was expected to be a barn-burner, featuring a comeback from...
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