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With battles over the president's signature health legislation underway in the courts and on Capitol Hill, a third line of attack is forming in the states.

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The latest Post-ABC News poll shows that 46 percent of Americans support the proposed changes in the health-care overhaul law, while 50 percent opposes it.
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Posted on February 14, 2011 4:46 PM

Budget 2012: Health and Human Services

The first sentence of the "funding highlights" in the White House budget document says that...

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Posted on January 18, 2011 9:30 AM

Freshman Rep. Gowdy to chair D.C., Census, oversight panel

House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) will announce Tuesday that Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) will helm the subcommittee that handles District matters, giving the job to a freshman lawmaker with no record of speaking out on D.C. issues.

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Posted on January 5, 2011 1:08 PM

Ombudsman's report says IRS should recast itself

Buried within the annual ombudsman report on the Internal Revenue Service, the nation's taxpayer advocate warns that the agency needs to recast itself as it prepares to enforce elements of the new health-care reform law.

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Posted on January 3, 2011 12:40 PM

Federal breast-feeding policy detailed

Federal workers who need to breast-feed on the job should be given a reasonable amount of time, must be provided access to a clean, private room and might not be paid while doing so.

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President Obama signed the bill into law in the East Room of the White House after addressing an audience that included lawmakers who supported the measure.

A spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says the bill making changes in President Barack Obama's newly enacted health care overhaul will have to go back to the House for final congressional approval.

The No. 2 Republican in the house, Eric Cantor, said at a news conference Thursday that someone shot a bullet through a window of his campaign office in Richmond, Virginia and said he has received threatening e-mail

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Michelle Obama 'Let's Move!'

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Narrative of a man whose wife died of cancer after he lost his job and was unable to buy individual insurance.

 
 
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How the health-care package passed by the House will affect your coverage.
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How House members voted on the final package.
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A breakdown of 41 health care lobbyists connected to the Finance Committee.
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Robert Samuelson

Should the United States someday suffer a budget crisis, it will be hard not to conclude that Obama and his allies sowed the seeds.


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