Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill, an early supporter of President Barack Obama’s presidential bid in 2008, won’t attend the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte this summer, a McCaskill aide said. The aide, speaking on condition of anonymity today, said McCaskill will...
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Sens. Jeff Sessions, left, and Claire McCaskill, in the Capitol via the Senate subway for votes on the Food and Drug Administration reauthorization bill.
McCaskill to Skip Party’s Convention
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Activists await a ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court on the controversial Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in Washington on June 25, 2012.
Romney’s Health-Care `Preax’ Covering Two Bases
In any campaign, swift reaction is essential. But there’s more than “reax” in the hyperventilated news cycles of the 2012 campaign. There’s also “preax.” As Bloomberg’s Julie Davis reports from the road today, Republican Mitt Romney today has issued his...
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Protesters against Arizona's immigration law outside of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Romney Rations Immigration Words
Updated at 3:45 pm and 4:35 pm EDT His campaign’s chartered airplane full of reporters eager for any hint of response to the Supreme Court’s marquee rulings this week, Mitt Romney initially took a pass today on discussing the decision...
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Mitt Romney in Davenport, Iowa.
Magic Number of the Day: 52
That’s the number of electoral votes in the four states where Mitt Romney began airing new television ads today with promises about what he would do in his first 100 days as president. The ads are running in Ohio (18 electoral...
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Cooling off with a sprinkler on the National Mall in front of the Washington Monument.
Washington Daybook: Bringing the Heat
On the first full day of summer, temperatures in Washington are forecast to top 100 degrees today, and as President Harry S. Truman used to day, if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. The U.S. Supreme...
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Leaving the Supreme Court after justices decided to wait on a ruling on the Affordable Care Act, in Washington on June 18, 2012.
Health Law Prognostication Bedevils Analysts
Guessing how the Supreme Court may rule on the U.S. health-care law is bedeviling Wall Street analysts, who’ve turned to everything from flow charts to legal analysis to help investors prepare for the ruling. CRT Capital Markets’ Sheryl Skolnick produced...
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Ozombie Care
Ozombie Care
President Obama’s push for near-universal health insurance coverage may be harder to kill than most zombies. If the Supreme Court decides to take a metaphorical stake to Obama’s health-care overhaul law and tosses the individual mandate out on the front...
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Supporters of Antonis Samaras, leader of Greece's New Democracy party, in Athens.
Washington Daybook: Come Together
President Barack Obama is in Los Cabos, Mexico, joining other heads of state and finance officials including U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao at the Group of 20 summit. The meeting, which...
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Groups for and against recent health care reform legislation rally outside the US Supreme Court.
Uninsured Angst Swells: Health Care
Barack Obama’s political fortunes may hang on the U.S. Supreme Court’s view of his health-care law. For Joy Waldon, the stakes add up to a quarter of her paycheck and some peace of mind. With the best option at health...
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Dentists during the Remote Area Medical (RAM) free clinic in Oakland, California.
After Health-Care Ruling: Moving On
A ruling on health-care is near. Yet big health insurers aren’t waiting for a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that not only will have an impact on the presidential election campaign underway. It also will determine who — insurance companies, policy-holders...
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