News Team | June 8, 2011
David G. Savage, LA Times – Washington Bureau | 6-8-2011 Reporting from Atlanta— A top Obama administration lawyer defending last year’s healthcare law ran into skeptical questions Wednesday from three federal judges here, who suggested they may be ready to declare all or part of the law unconstitutional. Acting U.S. Solicitor General Neal K. Katyal [...]
News Team | March 8, 2011
Rob McKenna, | 3-8-2011 Congressional supporters of the health reform act had plenty of warning that, however good its intentions, the bill was venturing into unprecedented legal ground. The accusations are as insidious as they are inaccurate. An e-mail was circulated earlier this month by a member of Congress accusing me of trying to “wipe [...]
News Team | January 19, 2011
Foxnews.com | 1-19-2011 WASHINGTON — The newly muscular House Republicans voted Wednesday to overturn President Obama’s health care overhaul — a move that is largely symbolic because the Democratic-controlled Senate is poised to ignore it while Obama is certain to veto it should it somehow pass through Congress. The House passed the bill 245-189 with [...]
News Team | January 18, 2011
Newsmax.com | 1-18-2011 PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — Six more states said Tuesday they would join a lawsuit in Florida against President Obama’s healthcare overhaul, meaning more than half of the country will challenge the law. The announcement was made as House members in Washington, led by Republicans, debated whether to repeal the law. The six [...]
News Team | December 14, 2010
Jim Meyers and Ashley Martella, Newsmax.com | 12-14-2010 Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli tells Newsmax that the defeat of Obamacare and its individual mandate is “critical to the preservation of the Constitution and liberty.” Cuccinelli successfully argued the case that led to a federal judge’s ruling on Monday that the individual mandate — requiring Americans [...]
News Team | December 13, 2010
Lee Ross, FoxNews.com | 12-13-2010 Casting an unmistakable and perhaps permanent pockmark on the face of the Obama administration, a federal judge in Virginia ruled Monday that a major component of the new health care reform law is unconstitutional. Judge Henry E. Hudson ruled Monday for the state’s claim that the requirement for people to [...]
News Team | September 20, 2010
Neil King Jr. and Janet Adamy , WSJ.com | 9-20-2010 Eyeing a potential Congressional win in November, House Republicans are planning to chip away at the White House’s legislative agenda—in particular the health-care law—by depriving the programs of cash……… Read More
News Team | September 6, 2010
Carol M. Ostrom, Seattle Times | 9-6-2010 Whopping rate increases are coming soon for many people with individual health-insurance policies. Most insurers offering individual policies in the state have asked for and been granted rate increases, effective Oct. 1, according to the state’s insurance commissioner……. Read More
News Team | June 30, 2010
Michael O’Brien, THE HILL.com | 6-30-2010 The top two House Republicans signed onto two petitions to force votes to repeal Democrats’ healthcare reform law in its entirety. House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) and House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said they had signed onto discharge petitions set to be offered by members of their [...]
News Team | June 21, 2010
Tom Murphy, ABC News | 6-21-2010 People who buy their own health insurance have been hit lately with premium hikes that far exceed increases in premiums for employer-sponsored coverage, according to a new survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation. The nonprofit foundation, which is separate from health insurer Kaiser Permanente, said recent premium hikes requested [...]