House Republicans vote to gut health care programs, boost Pentagon
On Thursday, in a razor-thin 218-199 vote of approval, the House passed another extreme bill that is destined to die: its Sequestration Replacement Act. The budget bill overriddes steep cuts to defense spending that were set to begin in January 2013, ...
Planned Parenthood sues Texas over health care exclusion
Gov. Rick Perry (Leschnyhan/Dreamstime.com)
Last month, the state of Texas lost Medicaid funding for the state's Women's Health Program, a Medicaid-waiver program. The federal government was forced to revoke the funding because Texas refused to compl...
Texas loses federal dollars for Medicaid, promises to magically fund it … somehow
I can do this. Budget shortfall,
plus another $35 million, carry the 1 ...
Texas Gov. Rick Perry may not be able to count to three, but apparently, he's a mathematical genius when it comes to funding the state's Medicaid program.
After losing federal...
Convinced 2011 Ryan budget wasn’t hated, just poorly marketed, Republicans try again
A trip down memory lane: how Paul Ryan's last budget was received.
Remember the disaster that was last year's House Republican budget? Remember how Rep. Paul Ryan was booed out of a town meeting, but still remained doggedly insistent that people love...
House Republican budget opposed by Republican committee members
Rep. Paul Ryan has a tough sell on his hands. (Jose Luis Magaua/Reuters)
The House Republican budget authored by Rep. Paul Ryan isn't getting a great deal of love, even from conservatives. Fred Hiatt's Washington Post editorial page slammed it as "da...
Club for Growth opposes House Republican budget
Well, so much for that. Rep. Paul Ryan's budget, given the go-ahead by House Republican leadership, is first and foremost a political statement, since no one could be deluded enough to think it would pass in the Senate or be signed by President Obama....
Club for Growth opposes House Republican budget
Well, so much for that. Rep. Paul Ryan's budget, given the go-ahead by House Republican leadership, is first and foremost a political statement, since no one could be deluded enough to think it would pass in the Senate or be signed by President Obama....
Republicans not leaping to full-throated support for Paul Ryan’s budget
The reviews from Democrats on the House GOP's budget proposal, authored by Rep. Paul Ryan, are in, and are scathing. So what are Republicans thinking? Here's an anonymous take, emailed to Atlantic reporter, Molly Ball.
GOP staffer emails: "The GOP budg...
White House, Democrats respond to House GOP budget proposal
Sen. Ron Wyden is on his own after teaming up with Paul Ryan on Medicare
(Ron Wyden: Yuri Gripas/Reuters, Paul Ryan: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)
The White House issued this statement responding to the House Republican budget released today by Rep. Paul R...
Texas loses Medicaid funding in effort to spite Planned Parenthood
"Look what I did!" (Leschnyhan/Dreamstime.com)
Last Friday, the Department of Health and Human Services announced that they would be informing the State of Texas that the state would lose basic health and family planning services funding from Medicai...
