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Fact Sheet on Jonathan Gruberâs Earlier Untrue Comments on the Drafting and Passing of the ACA, Which He Has Since Back-Tracked From 1 Jonathan Gruber was not an “architect” of the ACA. Indeed, Gruber played no role in drafting the Affordable Care Act in the House or Senate.  Indeed, at the dozens of hearings on the health reform bill by the three health committees in the House in 2009, with 181 witnesses, Jonathan Gruber was never a witness.
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- Roger Nash Baldwin was one of the founders of the American Civil Liberties Union. He served as executive director of the ACLU until 1950. Many of the ACLU's original landmark cases took place under his direction, including the Scopes Trial, the Sacco and Vanzetti murder trial, and its challenge to the ban on James Joyce's Ulysses. Baldwin was a well-known pacifist and author.
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- Senate Democrats like Schatz, Sen. Edward Markey Edward (Ed) John Markey Net neutrality supporters predict tough court battle over FCC's repeal plan Avalanche of Democratic senators say Franken should resign Driverless car bill hits Senate speed bump MORE (D-Mass.), Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Sen. Ron Wyden Ronald (Ron) Lee Wyden Democratic senator predicts Franken will resign Thursday Avalanche of Democratic senators say Franken should resign Lobbying world MORE (D-Ore.) among ...
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- Roskam Opening Statement: Protecting Seniors’ Retirement from the Administration’s Overreach. WASHINGTON, DC — Today, House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Peter Roskam (R-IL) delivered the following opening statement during a hearing on the Department of Labor's proposed fiduciary rule. Good morning.
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Grassley and Feinstein: The Pair Who Will Lead Gorsuchâs Senate Hearings Grassley and Feinstein: The Pair Who Will Lead Gorsuch’s Senate Hearings. Senators Charles E. Grassley, left, and Dianne Feinstein lead the Senate Judiciary Committee, which will consider this week the nomination of Judge Neil M. Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. Credit Gabriella Demczuk for The New York Times.
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Fact Sheet on Jonathan Gruberâs Earlier Untrue Comments on the Drafting and Passing of the ACA, Which He Has Since Back-Tracked From 1 Indeed, Gruber played no role in drafting the Affordable Care Act in the House or Senate.  Indeed, at the dozens of hearings on the health reform bill by the three health committees in the House in 2009, with 181 witnesses, Jonathan Gruber was never a witness. He testified at two Senate hearings.
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- Murphy and the Senate Democrats’ talk-a-thon marked an unusual day in the Senate, which had taken up the spending bill for DOJ, the Commerce Department and related agencies. By refusing to give up the floor, Senate Democrats prevented any amendment votes on the Justice Department spending bill. As senators entered a classified briefing, Murphy and a handful of his colleagues held the floor, refusing to let the Senate move forward on the spending bill without a gun debate.
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I. Introduction IV.The Final Outcome. The outcome of the CDA in the Telecommunications conference committee was determined in October of 1995 when the conferees were named. Members of the conference committee included Senator Exon and Senator Gorton, co-sponsors of the CDA, and Representative Hyde, sponsor of House censorship language.
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- Congresswoman Waters Introduces Integrated Transportation and Economic Development Act. WASHINGTON – Congresswoman Maxine Waters (CA-43), Ranking Member of the Financial Services Committee, introduced the Integrated Transportation and Economic Development Act (H.R. 3740), prior to adjournment on October 9, 2015.
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The Abortion Issue What persuaded Democratic Rep. Bart Stupak and other anti-abortion Democrats in the House to vote for the Senate bill was President Obama’s pledge to sign an executive order reaffirming a federal ban on funding of abortion, as stated in the 1976 Hyde Amendment.
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- Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., believes the problems with the Affordable Care Act implementation extends beyond the website's technical troubles. Gwen Ifill sits down with Sen. McConnell to discuss his criticism of the ACA, his take on NSA spying allegations and which common causes unite the GOP factions.
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- Updated 4 p.m. ET, 11/15/2013. (CNN) - The House approved Republican legislation on Friday giving health insurers the option of extending plans through 2014 that would otherwise be canceled for not complying with Affordable Care Act standards. The bill, approved 261-157, would also allow new customers to enroll in those plans. Thirty-nine Democrats crossed party lines and joined a nearly unanimous GOP caucus in voting for the measure proposed by Rep. Fred Upton, R-Michigan. It has little to no chance of clearing the Democratic-controlled Senate, however.
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- Hultgren and Schneider to Sit Together at State of the Union in Show of Bipartisanship Jan 30, 2018 Press Release Washington, DC —Today, U.S. Representatives Randy Hultgren (R-IL-14) and Brad Schneider (D-IL-10) announced they plan to sit together as a symbol of bipartisanship at tonight’s State of the Union Address, eschewing the traditional party-line seating arrangements.
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U.S. Department of the Treasury Final rules were also released today to provide guidance for reporting by insurers and other parties that provide health coverage under the ACA. Together, these rules respond to feedback from stakeholders and will help employers and insurers effectively comply with their responsibilities.
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Harry Reid Told Caucus That Pete Sessions Was Behind Obama Insult, Senators Say The two senators who spoke to HuffPost did not hear the Republican make the remark, but said a top White House aide who was present during Obama's meeting with Republicans later told Senate Democratic leaders that the lawmaker who made the remark was Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas), the chairman of the House Rules Committee.
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- During the three-day meeting in Georgia, Democrats selected Thomas Perez as the new chairman of the party’s national committee. The former Obama Cabinet official becomes the first Latino to lead the Democratic National Committee.
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History and Timeline of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) President Barack Obama and Senator Ted Kennedy were instrumental in the passage of the Affordable Care Act of 2010. The history of the Affordable Care Act – The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was signed into law by President Obama on March 23, 2010. It is more commonly known as the Affordable Care Act (or ACA) — and it’s most commonly referred to by its nickname, Obamacare.
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Dems Decry Social Security Sneak Attack WASHINGTON -- Democrats and Social Security advocates are accusing House Republicans of launching a sneak attack on disability insurance on the very first day of the new Congress.
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- Washington, D.C. - House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee Chairman Dave Reichert (R-WA) and Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) today released the following statements as the United States, Canada, and Mexico today begin the first round of negotiations to modernize and update the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in Washington, D.C.
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- Simon Review (Occasional Papers of the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute) by an authorized administrator of OpenSIUC. For more information, please contactopensiuc@lib.siu.edu. Recommended Citation. Jackson, John S. The Making of a Senator: Barack Obama and the 2004 Illinois Senate Race. (Aug 2006).
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1-10: What's Really in the Affordable Care Act Read on to learn what's really in the ACA. Overview. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law on March 23, 2010 by President Obama. Some love it, others hate it, but many people have only a vague idea of what's in the almost 2000-page law.n June 28, 2012, the US Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act (ACA). In a 5-4 opinion, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Elena Kagan, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, and Sonia Sotomayor voted to uphold the 2 most contentious provisions of the act, with exceptions.
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- 110 Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons Volume 20 Number 4 Winter 2015. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is. made up of numerous moving parts surrounded by truth. and fiction, promises and deception—elements coming. from both inside and outside government and making. congressional oversight nearly impossible.
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Sanders 1 of 69 Democrat socialists in Congress The forgotten history revolves around the central role played by the Democratic Socialists of America, or DSA, in founding the Congressional Progressive Caucus, or CPC, the largest membership organization within the Democratic Caucus of Congress, currently with 69 declared members.
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Obamacare was not passed using budget reconciliation It amended several of the law’s budgetary components while leaving the basic structure of the law in place. The Democrats played by the rules in 2010 in overcoming a filibuster to first pass the ACA, and then using the reconciliation process to pass a second bill making strictly budgetary changes in existing law. T he Republicans played by the rules this time to likewise make budgetary changes in existing law.
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John Mica Mica voted against the first bill that President Obama signed into law, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009. Since 2011, Rep. John Mica has received $10,000 in contributions from groups opposing the Paycheck Fairness Act. Rep. John Mica voted three times against amendments to the Employment Discrimination Law.
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- The House rejected the Senate bill and voted to set up a conference committee to negotiate a final bill, but senators balked on the idea. House bill sponsor Rep. David Bly, D-Northfield, said the House probably hurt senators' feelings by wanting to negotiate.