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Either it was very timely or very untimely. This afternoon, we ran a story on a controversial provision in the Senate stimulus bill providing a $15,000 tax

That was fast: The Obama administration told Citigroup to get rid of its $50 million jet, just one day after reports about the expenditure made their way into

According to The News Service of Florida , Florida health officials have “less than three months” to develop a detailed Medicaid-overhaul plan to sell to the Obama administration. But whether or not the federal government will give Florida a go-ahead with its proposed overhaul is unclear, due to certain provisions that “conflict with basic federal laws.” Among these conflicts is a provision that allows Medicaid providers to opt-out of providing family planning services on “moral or religious grounds.” # The Medicaid reform bill recently passed by state legislators is only an outline of what will be proposed to the feds. Currently, agencies such as the Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) are developing concrete proposals to show the federal government

Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) today joined the growing list of lawmakers who said they want Congressional hearings on the 14th Amendment, specifically its

Another Facebook endorsement from Palin, another race turned on its head. This time it’s the Republican primary race for governor in Georgia, where state

Elana Schor at Talking Points Memo has a great inauguration interview with Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.). She asked him about TWI’s story last week revealing that

That’s the question being asked by some government watchdogs in the wake of Rep. Charlie Rangel’s admonishment by the House Ethics Committee yesterday. The

I didn’t see today’s State Department presser, but Ben Smith did, and he passes on word that spokesman Ian Kelly would not confirm or deny today’s Ha’aretz

Speaker of the Iowa House Kraig Paulsen (R-Hiawatha) stood by House Republicans’ budget proposals Tuesday, after Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal (D-Council Bluffs) announced they would get the public involved to break the budget battle gridlock , claiming the Republicans “are not listening.” “Democrats want to talk about stalemates and impasses, but I’m not using those words,” Paulsen told The Iowa Independent. “The concern here is, the House Republicans had already put together a thoughtful and reasonable budget.

Nobel laureate Obama scales back his Middle East peace ambitions. To the consternation of some progressives, 2010 will be the year of fiscal

Via Matt Yglesias, al-Qaeda’s leadership continues to sweat the non-demonic nature of President Obama: Al Qaeda’s second-in-command told Muslims not to be

Fifteen years after the United States first instituted Operation Gatekeeper to reinforce the U.S.-Mexican border with more agents, walls and fences, the

The GOP leadership worries about the Bachmann effect. Did Wells Fargo use prominent black figures to lure minorities into subprime loans? Mark Sanford has

The labor market appears to be stabilizing. An insurance industry group is distributing anti-public option talking points. Sotomayor will be confirmed

Earlier today, we reported that Merck, the manufacturer of the human papillomavirus vaccine that Gov. Rick Perry attempted to mandate for Texas girls in 2007,

Jon Stewart vs. Death Panel fearmonger. Scandals dogging New Mexico Democrats. Faking your own disappearance is a poor campaign strategy. It’s been

A federal government shutdown will occur unless a continuing resolution deal is reached in Washington, D.C. for the remainder of fiscal year 2011.

One of the strangest figures in the universe of Barack Obama conspiracy theories is Lawrence Sinclair, a 47-year old man with a long criminal record who, as Ben

There are petty political battles happening in the Gem State. The Idaho House Wednesday voted down a bill that amends an existing law related to early

Former state Rep. Keith Fitzgerald, D-Sarasota (Pic by Meredith Hill, via myfloridahouse.gov) Former state Rep.

First appeared December 24, 2008 In October, Gen. David McKiernan, commander of U.S. troops in Afghanistan expressed skepticism over the prospect of