Tag: House of Representatives

Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

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Steve Cohen apologizes to reporter after calling her ‘very attractive’

Joel Gehrke · July 18, 2013 4:00 am

President Barack Obama greets people after speaking about the Affordable Care Act during an event in the East Room of the White House on Thursday. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Obamacare battle takes bizarre turns

Byron York · July 18, 2013 4:00 am

Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis.: âMost people just want to have a legal status so they can work to provide for their families." (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Paul Ryan: ‘We don’t want to push people into citizenship’

Rebecca Berg · July 18, 2013 4:00 am

Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., left, chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., right, speak to reporters just before a vote to delay the individual and employer mandates of President Barack Obama's signature health care law, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, July 17. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Morning Examiner: Obamacare delay votes strengthen House leadership for government funding fight

Conn Carroll · July 18, 2013 4:00 am

House majority leader Eric Cantor, R-Va. (AP/Steven Senne)

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Eric Cantor ‘disheartened’ by Republican surrender on filibuster fight

Ashe Schow · July 18, 2013 4:00 am

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney: âThe data reflects that there is not support for the proposition that businesses are not hiring full-time employees because of the Affordable Care Act.â (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama to defend health care overhaul Thursday

Brian Hughes · July 17, 2013 4:00 am

âWhat we really ought to do is to make it clear that individuals should be treated just like businesses,â said House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

House passes bills to delay Obamacare provisions

Sean Lengell · July 17, 2013 4:00 am

GOP-led House to vote on Obamacare delays

Sean Lengell · July 17, 2013 4:00 am

The Fairness for American Families Act would delay the individual mandate of Obamacare for a year, to align it with the delay in the employer mandate. (Thinkstock)

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Conservative groups divided on Obamacare delay strategy

Conn Carroll · July 16, 2013 4:00 am

Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., said the latest revelations in the NSA controversy came because "this is what happens when you have secret laws." (AP/Carlos Osorio)

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Defund the NSA? Justin Amash pushes amendment to do just that

Ashe Schow · July 16, 2013 4:00 am

FILE - This June 11, 2013 file photo shows Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., arriving with staff member Javier Sanchez on Capitol Hill in Washington. Sanchez has been arrested and charged with thefts that took place in a House office building. A spokesman for the U.S. Capitol Police says 37-year-old Javier Sanchez of Virginia was arrested last Thursday, July 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, file)

Michele Bachmann staffer arrested, charged with theft

Sean Lengell · July 16, 2013 4:00 am

Obama warns against House GOP’s piecemeal immigration plan

Brian Hughes · July 16, 2013 4:00 am