Because the Republican party remains adamantly opposed to President Obama’s health-care law after voting yesterday in the House to delay the individual mandate, the president is delivering a speech Thursday to the law’s implementation. His political group Organizing for Action has already aired TV ads to promote the law.
- Obama will argue that his Affordable Care Act is holding insurance companies accountable and putting money back into the pockets of consumers
- Obama administration has added roughly $33 million to a contract with a PR firm to help promote health-care law
- House Republicans voted on Wednesday to delay core provisions of President Obama’s health care law
- A meeting of Senate Republicans grew tense as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told them they could have gotten a better deal on nominations
- Politico runs five questions for the inspector general
- Treasury Department inspector general who produced the original report at Darrell Issa’s request, is going back for Issa’s committee hearing
- President Obama could scrap one-on-one talks with Vladimir Putin next month in Moscow if Edward Snowden is granted asylum in Russia
- Liz Cheney called Sen. Mike Enzi “confused”
- Gov. Rick Perry signs anti-abortion bill into law
- Terry McAuliffe leading Ken Cuccinelli in newest poll
- Majority favor same-sex marriage in Virginia
- Bernanke to Congress: Please don’t screw the economy up
- A strong majority of Americans, 59 percent, said they would like to see the House either pass the Senate’s immigration bill
- Sen. John McCain has told Democratic leaders he wants a prominent role in debt talks this fall, alarming conservatives
- At least 12 Republican senators are regularly meeting with Obama’s top aides to figure out the looming fiscal challenges this fall
- Jim DeMint and Heritage’s role behind the scenes in fighting Republicans
- Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito quintupled his net worth last year
- Rebels are still losing in Syria
- A drone crashed on a Florida highway
- The USOC and John Boehner disagree with Lindsey Graham that the U.S. should consider boycotting the Winter Olympics
- Joe Biden says he could “die a happy man” never being president
- “House of Cards” makes Emmy history
- Happy 95th birthday, Nelson Mandela!
Clare Kim