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Republican Strategy: Prune Obamacare ‘Branch by Branch’
Jan 20 2011 // Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives Thursday launched a plan to replace President Barack Obama’s healthcare overhaul “branch by branch” with measures they say would bring down soaring...
Obama Administration Appeals Virginia Healthcare Mandate Ruling
Jan 18 2011 // The Obama administration Tuesday appealed a ruling by a federal judge in Virginia that declared a key part of President Barack Obama’s landmark healthcare law unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson last...
House Republicans Aim to Repeal Healthcare Law
Jan 4 2011 // Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives plan to pass a bill next week to repeal President Barack Obama’s overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system, a senior party aide said Monday, but the effort is widely...
Democratic Congress Productive But Unpopular
Dec 23 2010 // Perhaps never before has a U.S. Congress done more and been liked less than the one controlled by President Barack Obama’s Democrats that ended Wednesday. It wrapped up its two-year legislative cycle with a crush of...
Senate Passes Tax Cut Plan, 81-19
Dec 15 2010 // A deal that President Barack Obama struck with Republicans to extend expiring tax cuts for nearly every working American and spur job growth sailed through the U.S. Senate Wednesday. The Senate passed the legislation in a...
Senate Expected to Pass Tax Cuts; House Democrats Balk at Estate Tax
Dec 15 2010 // President Barack Obama’s sweeping plan to extend expiring tax cuts for millions of Americans headed for overwhelming passage in the U.S. Senate on Wednesday as it moved through Congress. While the Senate neared a...
Senate Fails in Attempts to Repeal Health Law Provision on 1099 Tax
Nov 30 2010 // Efforts to repeal what is widely seen as a burdensome tax provision in the new federal healthcare law failed in the U.S. Senate Monday despite broad support to drop it. A majority of the Democratic-led Senate voted in...
Arizona Senate Adds Banking/Insurance Committee
Nov 15 2010 // The Arizona Senate will add three more committees under a postelection reorganization by majority Republicans. Senate President-designee Russell Pearce announced appointments for chairmanships of 15 committees, up from 12...
Republicans Control State Houses
Nov 14 2010 // Republicans were not only victorious in the U.S. House but also in state houses across the country. The Nov. 2 election gave the GOP its largest number of seats in state legislatures since the Great Depression, according...
Republicans Gain Control in State Houses, Governor Offices
Nov 14 2010 // Republicans were not only victorious in the U.S. House but also in state houses across the country. The new GOP power will give the party its largest number of seats in state legislatures since the Great Depression,...
Manchin U.S. Senate Win Elevates Democrat Tomblin to Governor Post
Nov 5 2010 // West Virginians essentially chose a new state chief executive when they voted to send Gov. Joe Manchin to the U.S. Senate, but his Tuesday win has also forced to the forefront questions about the succession process. Senate...
Florida Republicans Eye Special Session to Revisit Crist Vetoes
Nov 5 2010 // Incoming Republican legislative leaders said they are considering calling a special session in the coming weeks to override some of Gov. Charlie Crist’s vetoes. Crist’s veto of a property insurance bill could...
Republicans Regain Control of Michigan Supreme Court
Nov 5 2010 // Republicans regained control of the Michigan Supreme Court by capturing two seats Tuesday, riding the same electoral wave that made the GOP victorious in all major statewide races. Wayne County Judge Mary Beth Kelly and...
Republicans Gain Control in State Houses
Nov 4 2010 // Republicans were not only victorious in the U.S. House but also in state houses across the country. Tuesday night’s GOP power will give the party its largest number of seats in state legislatures since the Great...
GOP Adds Governorships in Midwest
Nov 4 2010 // Midwestern states were among those that added to Republican gains in governor’s offices across the country on Nov. 2. Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin are among the states that voted to replace Democrats in...
Democrat Jones Wins California Insurance Commissioner Race
Nov 3 2010 // California voters have elected Assemblyman Dave Jones to be the state’s next insurance commissioner. Jones, a Democrat, won 51 percent of the vote to defeat Republican Mike Villines, who was favored by the insurance...
Republican Hudgens Elected Georgia Insurance Commissioner
Nov 3 2010 // Republican state Sen. Ralph T. Hudgens will be the new Georgia insurance and fire safety commissioner. Hudgens defeated Democrat Mary Squires, garnering 54 percent of the vote to 42 percent for Squires. Hudgens will...
Republican Scott Wins Florida Governor Race; Atwater Elected CFO
Nov 3 2010 // Floridians woke up this morning without knowing for certain who will be their next governor, although Republican healthcare executive Rick Scott held a slight edge over Democrat Alex Sink. Sink waited until final results...
Can Republicans Repeal U.S. Healthcare Overhaul?
Nov 2 2010 // Republicans have vowed to repeal and replace President Barack Obama’s healthcare overhaul — or at least obstruct many of its provisions — if they win control of Congress on Tuesday. National polls show...
Congressional Gridlock on Financial Reforms Expected After Elections
Oct 29 2010 // If Republicans make big gains in U.S. Congressional elections on Tuesday, as expected, Wall Street and big banks will have sweet, but incomplete, revenge on Democrats who drove through sweeping financial reforms against...
