Dec 13
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
A decision by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius last week to block the unrestricted sale of the morning-after pill to those under 17 has met with opposition from women’s groups, family-planning advocates, and now, from some congressional Democrats.
Fourteen members of the Senate Democratic caucus led by Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) on Tuesday penned a letter to Sebelius asking for the scientific basis for her move last week to overrule Food and Drug Administrator Margaret A. Hamburg’s decision to make Plan B One-Step available to people of all ages without a prescription.
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Dec 13
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
Do Republicans have the votes?
That’s the question in the House this morning as the chamber takes up a payroll tax package unveiled by GOP leaders last week.
The answer, according to House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), is yes.
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Dec 13
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
The winner of the Republican presidential primary fight is … President Obama?
That’s the analysis laid out Tuesday by Obama’s top campaign strategists in a presentation that brimmed with confidence over how the shifting political winds in the GOP are boosting the president’s chances of reelection.
No matter whether Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich is the GOP nominee, senior strategist David Axelrod, campaign manager Jim Messina and deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter argued that a protracted Republican fight helps Obama in multiple ways.
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Dec 13
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
Want to know the key to former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney winding up as the Republican presidential nominee? Two words: R
on Pau
l.
The Texas Congressman’s strength in Iowa — there is a legitimate case to be made that he will win the Jan. 3 caucuses but more on that later — coupled with his willingness to go after frontrunning former House Speaker Newt Gingrich in often quite personal terms make him perhaps the critical x-factor in Romney’s winning calculus.
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Dec 13
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
A bipartisan group of House members is calling for the elimination of ethanol subsidies as a deadline for renewing the tax credit looms at the end of the month.
In a letter to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Friday, 73 House members of both parties urged the leaders to “allow ethanol subsidies set to expire to do just that and to resist calls to expand or create new ethanol subsidies in the eleventh hour.”
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