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Dems Fundraise off Obamacare Repeal

Democrats seized on Tuesday’s Obamacare repeal vote in the U.S. House of Representatives to raise cash, sending a slew of fundraising spam to their email lists, raising the alarm–and raising potential millions of dollars from alarmed supporters.

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Obamacare Tax Penalty to Hit Millions

Treasury officials have announced that 3-6 million people will be forced to pay the Obamacare tax penalty for not having health insurance in 2014. This is the first time the Treasury Department has given such an estimate.

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Vermont State Auditor: Jonathan Gruber Response to Contract Investigation ‘Unsatisfactory’

The odds that Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber may face charges for padding invoices are going up. Gruber has been paid $160,000 by the state of Vermont, $80,000 of which is for 800 hours of work he claimed in an invoice was performed by unnamed research assistants. But so far Gruber has failed to provide evidence that these research assistants actually exist and did in fact perform work under the contract.

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Levin: GOP Won’t Defund Obamacare or Exec Amnesty

Talk radio host and author “The Liberty Amendments,” Mark Levin predicted Congressional Republicans will not defund the president’s executive action on immigration or Obamacare this year on Wednesday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel. “When it comes to Obamacare, why

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The Obamacare-IRS Scandal

There is a lawsuit that could bring President Obama’s federal healthcare crashing down under the weight of its own lawlessness. Judicial Watch filed an amicus brief in support of plaintiffs who are making the plain, obvious point to the United States Supreme Court that President Obama (or any other president) should not be permitted to rewrite federal statues in brazen violation of the U.S. Constitution’s separation of powers.

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DC Admits Obamacare for Congress Scheme Unlawful

They didn’t fess up willingly, but after we applied the appropriate pressure, government officials responsible for operating the Washington, D.C. Obamacare “Small Business Exchange” have finally admitted that Congress is taking advantage of health benefits its members and staff are not entitled to claim.

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2015: GOP Senate Should Let Democrats Filibuster in Favor of ObamaCare

As Republicans assume control of Congress this week, pundits and political observers are handicapping the odds of legislation passing the GOP controlled Senate. While House Republicans enjoy their largest majority in almost a century, Senate Republicans have just 54 seats in the Chamber. It is a solid majority but a handful of seats below the 60 vote threshold to end filibusters on legislation.

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Steve King: I Will Not Vote for Boehner as Speaker

President Obama has repeatedly plunged our nation into a constitutional crisis. No past president has so cavalierly violated his own oath and through naked political calculation, willfully violated the Constitution. When a president does violence to our Constitution, those who also take an oath to our Constitution have an absolute duty to defend it. We need a Speaker of the House who carries in his bones the conviction of our oath.

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Troy: 2015 Will Be Obamacare’s Worst Year Yet

Health care expert Tevi Troy, writing in the new issue of Commentary, predicts that 2015 will be the worst year for Obamacare yet–not just because the steady (and delayed) implementation of the law will arouse new opposition, but because the Congress that takes office this week was partly elected on the basis of broad public opposition to the law.

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Biden Touts ObamaCare in Weekly Address

In the  first weekly address of 2015, Vice President Joe Biden filled in for a vacationing President Barack Obama to argue that Americans make their New Year’s resolution to sign up for health care under the Affordable Care Act. Transcript

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Mark Levin’s Foundation Joins Supreme Court Fight Against Obamacare

The Landmark Legal Foundation, the conservative public interest law firm founded by talk radio host (and former Reagan administration official) Mark Levin, filed an amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) brief this week at the U.S. Supreme Court in King v. Burwell, which could decide the fate of Obamacare.

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More Challenges Ahead for ObamaCare in 2015

Still reeling from the negative publicity swirling around the remarks of Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber, even more challenges lie ahead in 2015 for Obama’s signature agenda item, the Affordable Care Act.