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Health reform in our time

By Denis Storey | May 1, 2013

1993—U.S. Sen. John Chafee, R-Rhode Island, introduces the “Health Equity and Access Reform Act,” which includes a mandate, complete a non-compliance “penalty.” Supporters include Sens. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, and Republican Kit Bond from Missouri.
1. Health reform in our time

By Denis Storey | April 30, 2013

A timeline of health reform, the moments, turning points and events that defined the debate, 1993-present.
McConnell vows to repeal Obamacare

By Ken Thomas | March 15, 2013

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky is vowing to repeal President Barack Obama's sweeping health care law.
Obama says his team managing cuts best they can

By NEDRA PICKLER,Associated Press | March 4, 2013

President Barack Obama presided Monday over the first meeting of his new-look Cabinet in a sobering climate of forced fiscal belt-tightening, urging humane management of spending cuts for communities and families that are "going to be hurting."
Pope shows lifetime jobs aren’t always

By Marilynn Marchione | February 11, 2013

The world seems surprised that an 85-year-old globe-trotting pope who just started tweeting wants to resign, but should it be? Maybe what should be surprising is that more leaders his age do not, considering the toll aging takes on bodies and minds amid a culture of constant communication and change.
Senate tries again to move anti-violence bill

By Jill Abrams | February 4, 2013

The Senate took up the Violence Against Women Act Monday, seeking to remedy Congress' failure last year to extend and expand a law protecting women from domestic abuse while broadening its coverage to include Native Americans, gays and lesbians.
GOP lawmakers see automatic cuts as leverage

By Andrew Taylor | January 30, 2013

Driven by frustration over deficits and debt, Republican conservatives are pushing a politically risky move to permit painfully large automatic spending cuts to strike the Pentagon and domestic programs alike in an effort to force Democrats into making concessions on the budget.
'We must reduce health costs,' Obama says

By JULIE PACE, AP White House Correspondent | January 21, 2013

President Barack Obama says the nation must make the "hard choices" to reduce the cost of health care and the size of the deficit.
Will Obama’s order lead to surge in gun research?

By Marilynn Marchione | January 17, 2013

Nearly as many Americans die from guns as from car crashes each year. We know plenty about the second problem and far less about the first. A scarcity of research on how to prevent gun violence has left policymakers shooting in the dark as they craft gun control measures without...
Obama demands quick action to raise debt limit

By Julie Pace | January 14, 2013

President Barack Obama demanded Monday that Congress raise the federal debt limit quickly, warning that "Social Security benefits and veterans' checks will be delayed if they don't," and warning Republicans not to insist on concessions in exchange.