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House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) will announce Tuesday that Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) will helm the subcommittee that handles District matters, giving the job to a freshman lawmaker with no record of speaking out on D.C. issues. Buried within the annual ombudsman report on the Internal Revenue Service, the nation's taxpayer advocate warns that the agency needs to recast itself as it prepares to enforce elements of the new health-care reform law.
Health-Care Reform 2011 - Tracking the National Health-Care Debate
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SALT LAKE CITY, Utah - A religious studies class late last year at Utah State University in Logan, Utah, was unusual for two reasons. The small group of students, faculty and faithful there to hear Mormon Elder Marlin Jensen were openly troubled about the future of their church, asking hard questions. And Jensen was uncharacteristically frank in acknowledging their concerns. | Video SACRAMENTO, California - Last summer, just days before California was required by law to pass a state budget, Republican State Senator Tom Harman got word that he'd been summoned to meet Governor Jerry Brown "right now." Harman, a veteran legislator from conservative Orange County, hurried downstairs to the Horseshoe, the governor's suite of offices in the state capitol building. | Video The young men in business suits, gingerly picking their way among the millwrights, machinists and pipefitters at Kansas City's Worldwide Grinding Systems steel mill.
SOURCE: AP/Susan Walsh With large Democratic majorities in both chambers of Congress and an ambitious new president who campaigned and won election on promises of bold changes, the potential for true progressive governance is greater than at any point in decades. Report: New Progressive America: Twenty Years of Demographic, Geographic, and Attitudinal Changes Across the Country Herald a New Progressive Majority by Ruy Teixeira The growing progressive movement in the United States finds itself at a historic and propitious crossroads.
State of American Political Ideology, 2009: A National Study of Political Values and Beliefs
By Parija Kavilanz , senior writer March 3, 2011: 6:01 AM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Under health care reform, consumers will see several new changes to their insurance coverage this year, the most significant of which affects the nation's 47 million Medicare beneficiaries. Amy Bergner, principal with global benefits consulting firm Mercer, said senior citizens who are also Medicare enrollees will see the biggest effects. 50% discount on prescription drugs: On Jan. 1, drugmakers began giving seniors a 50% discount on brand-name prescription medicines filled in the Medicare Part D "coverage gap."
Health care reform benefit changes in 2011 - Mar. 3, 2011
The Republican National Committee's Hispanic outreach coordinator said this morning that Mitt Romney is "still deciding" what his position on immigration is.
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Elected to a two-year term, each representative serves the people of a specific congressional district by introducing bills and serving on committees, among other duties.
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Across the country, more than 50 million Latinos are part of our communities, classrooms and workplaces. And thanks to the health care law, the Affordable Care Act, an estimated 5.4 million Latinos will gain insurance coverage by 2016 under the new law, according to an issue brief released by HHS today (go here to read it in Spanish). April 10, 2012 at 7:48 PM EDT
