A shaky roll-out and continual stream of delays have dominate the news the past six months, but the Wall Street Journal reports that ObamaCare’s impact has only just begun – with consumers and industry facing higher costs, complicated rules, and even more mandates. ABC: The Secret Battles Between US Forces and Chechen Terrorists WSJ: Peggy […]

If President Obama gets his way and Congress hikes the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, the non-partisan CBO estimates it will cost as many as one million jobs in the U.S. by 2017, reports Newsmax. View the CBO report here. Politico: Egypt’s New Dictator was Made in the USA WaPo: Feds Seek National Database […]

Congressional Republicans have shifted focus to healing internal rifts and will only play small ball for the rest of the year, reports the Washington Post. With immigration reform, tax reform, and tweaks to ObamaCare all dead for the year because of intra-party squabbles and the last debt limit vote in which Boehner relied almost entirely […]

The Senate clerk took the rare step Wednesday of not calling the names of Senators during a roll call vote to shut off debate on raising the debt limit – leaving no immediate record of how everyone voted. But Roll Call obtained a copy of the official Senate tally sheet, revealing which six GOP Senators […]

Following the lead of Speaker John Boehner, Senate Republican leadership moved quickly Wednesday to help Democrats shut off debate on a bill to raise the federal debt ceiling with no strings attached. Politico has the scoop on the behind-the-scenes drama – including which Senators, tired of always being asked to take tough votes for leadership, […]