federal government

• Problems surface over Arizona’s 2007 immigration law

  By Jacques Billeaud  |  May 17, 2013

  The immigration debate in Arizona reached a boiling point in 2007 when the state passed a groundbreaking law targeting those often blamed with fueling the nation's border woes: Employers who hire immigrants living in the U.S. illegally.

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  Tea party tax returns show activism on a budget

  By Stephen Braun  |  May 17, 2013

  Dozens of tea party groups and other conservative organizations of the kind subjected to improper scrutiny by the Internal Revenue Service operated with small budgets and rarely displayed overt partisan activities, according to an Associated Press review of public tax filings by 93 such activist groups. A few groups built...

• IRS chief’s ouster isn’t ending investigations

  By Stephen Ohlemacher  |  May 16, 2013

  Don't look for the outcry over the Internal Revenue Service's improper targeting of tea party groups to subside with the ouster of the agency's acting commissioner.

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  Obama fires IRS commissioner

  By Stephen Ohlemacher  |  May 16, 2013

  President Obama ousted the acting commissioner of the IRS late Wednesday amid an outcry over the improper targeting of tea party groups.

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  Health reforms penalize some Indians

  By Garance Burke  |  May 15, 2013

  Many Native Americans will have to buy their own health insurance or pay a $695 fine unless they can prove they are "Indian enough" to claim one of the few exemptions allowed under the PPACA.

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  CBO says PPACA repeal will increase deficit

  By Kathryn Mayer  |  May 15, 2013

  With House Republicans just a day away from voting to seek a repeal of President Obama’s health reform law, congressional budget analysts suggested on Wednesday that repealing the law would increase the deficit.

• Expert points to lessons for reform in New Hampshire

  By Holly Ramer  |  May 14, 2013

  As New Hampshire prepares to implement the federal health care overhaul law, it could learn some lessons from its experience with providing subsidized health insurance to children over the years, a policy expert told lawmakers Tuesday.

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  Colorado Medicaid expansion signed into law

  By Ivan Moreno  |  May 14, 2013

  An expansion of Medicaid eligibility that's expected to add 160,000 adults to public health care assistance in Colorado has been signed into law.

• Utah to be first to use dual-model health exchange

  By Brady McCombs  |  May 10, 2013

  The federal government has approved Utah to become the first state to have a dual-model health insurance exchange in which the state and the federal government divide responsibilities.

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  Obama declares health care law 'is here to stay'

  By Jim Kuhnhenn, Julie Pace  |  May 10, 2013

  President Barack Obama on Friday stepped up the sales pitch on his health care overhaul as the final elements of his top domestic achievement go into effect.