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** FILE ** Rep. Pete Sessions, Texas Republican (Associated Press)

Health care votes will force House Democrats to choose

The House is set to vote Wednesday on bills that delay mandates in the new health care law requiring individuals and large employers to have health coverage plans, forcing Democrats to align themselves with their party leader, President Obama, or distance themselves from his contentious reforms.

July 17, 2013
Rep. Jim McDermott, Washington Democrat

‘Evolving’ evidence led to health law delays: Treasury official

A Treasury Department official in charge of health policy said Wednesday the Obama administration's decision to delay the health care law's "employer mandate" was made "sometime in June" but had been considered for some time in coordination with the White House

July 17, 2013
Credit: U.S. Marine Corps

More security resources needed post-Benghazi: State Department

State Department officials said Tuesday they could use extra help to strengthen embassy security, but they said it's unclear whether measures being proposed by senators would have prevented last year's attack in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans.

July 16, 2013

Some will need help with health law from ‘navigators’

President Obama's health care law will be available in Spanish and other languages, according to new rules the administration issued late last week that tell the "navigators," who are supposed to help Americans negotiate the labyrinthian law, to be prepared to help non-English speakers.

July 15, 2013
Sen. Ted Cruz

Senate GOP files bill to defund Obamacare

Rising stars in the Republican Party pushed Congress on Thursday to strip all funding from President Obama's health care law, even as Senate Democrats struck down piecemeal efforts to kill the law's most controversial mandates.

July 11, 2013
** FILE ** Rep. Paul Ryan, Wisconsin Republican

Democrats caught off guard on employer mandate delay, now blame GOP

President Obama's decision to delay part of his health care law left fellow Democrats flat-footed, but they have since regrouped and are now blaming Republicans for the situation, saying the GOP poisoned the law so badly that the administration had no choice.

July 10, 2013
**FILE** Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican (Associated Press)

Sen. Rand Paul threatens to block nominee, again, over drones

Sen. Rand Paul is threatening to block James Comey's nomination to lead the FBI if he does not get answers on the use of drones within the U.S. borders, just four months after his 13-hour filibuster of President Obama's pick to lead the CIA.

July 10, 2013

GOP: Health law delay shows Obama sided with business over people

House Republicans said Tuesday that President Obama sided with big business over average Americans when he gave large employers a one-year exemption to compliance with his health care overhaul, and staffers said the GOP is planning a series of votes that would force Democrats to align themselves with the embattled law.

July 9, 2013

Administration uses employer mandate delay to swat at court challenges

The Obama administration is using last week's delay of the health care law's employer mandate to try to get some of the legal challenges to the Affordable Care Act thrown out of court, arguing that with the changes, it's no longer clear what the final policy will look like so businesses shouldn't sue yet.

July 8, 2013
Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori (left) and Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission President Russell Moore speak together last week following a news conference at the National Press Club. More than 100 national religious leaders in an open letter are asking the Obama administration to "expand conscience protections" in the Affordable Care Act's employer mandate. Critics say it does not go far enough in divorcing the institutions from health plans that cover contraception. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

Critics raise questions over abrupt delay of ‘Obamacare’ mandate

The Obama administration's decision to delay the new health care law's "employer mandate" after business owners complained about its complexity has critics asking why, a few days prior, the White House would green-light a rule it sees as a burden on religious employers who do provide health insurance.

July 7, 2013
**FILE** Rep. Phil Roe, Tennessee Republican and a physician before being elected to Congress, delivers remarks during a news conference on Capitol Hill with fellow Republican members of the freshman class as they discuss health care overhaul in Washington on March 20, 2010. At right is Rep. John C. Fleming, Louisiana Republican, who was a family physician and former coroner before being elected to Congress. (Associated Press)

GOP questions legality of Obamacare delay

Conservative lawmakers Wednesday questioned both the motives and the legality of President Obama's decision to halt the employer mandate, a key part of his new health insurance law, until after the 2014 elections.

July 3, 2013