Jeb Bush Places Second Behind Ted Cruz Among Texas Republicans for 2016
Allen West Quotes The Who in Attack on Obama's Health Care Law
Former Congressman Allen West, a favorite of the tea party movement despite losing his seat to Patrick Murphy in 2012, weighed in on Wednesday on the Obama administrations decision to delay implementing the employer mandate part of the federal health care law until 2015. Posting on Facebook on Wednesday, West took aim at Obama and quoted a popular classic rock band.
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Gus Bilirakis Wants to 'Repeal and Replace' Obama's Health Care Law
Responding to the Obama administrations decision to delay enacting the employer mandate in the federal health care to 2015, U.S. Rep. Gus Bilirakis, R-Fla., insisted this showed the law simply did not work.
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Voters Not Confident in America's Public Schools
According to a new Rasmussen Reports poll, most voters don't think too highly of U.S. public schools and many believe political correctness trumps accuracy in America's textbooks.
Only 26 percent of voters say American public education is good or excellent, while 72 percent rate it as fair or poor. Sixty-one percent of voters also believe textbooks are far more concerned with reporting issues in a politically correct manner than actually providing accurate information. Only18 percent believe textbooks are more concerned with accurately providing information.
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Ander Crenshaw Calls to Replace Obama's Health Care Law
On Wednesday, U.S. Rep. Ander Crenshaw, R-Fla., weighed in on the Obama administrations decision to delay enacting the employer mandate part of the federal health care law until 2015.
The delay in the implementation of the employer mandate is another example of what weve known about Obamacare all along, Crenshaw said in a statement. Placing Washington in control of one-sixth of the nations economy was bad medicine three years ago, and its bad medicine today.
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Marco Rubio Can Win Over Conservatives With Abortion Bill
Fresh from getting the immigration reform bill through the Senate, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., shows no signs of leaving the national stage. While the immigration reform bill faces an uncertain fate in the House, Rubio agreed on Tuesday to sponsor a measure banning abortions after 20 weeks. A similar bill in Texas has been in national headlines in recent days as state Sen. Wendy Davis helped filibuster it, making her a star for Democrats. Conservatives in the House passed a similar bill to Rubios last month.
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Al Lawson Continues to Float Name Against Steve Southerland
Democrats across the state and nation are increasingly excited about Gwen Graham, the daughter of Bob Graham who served two terms as governor and three in the U.S. Senate, who is running against U.S. Rep. Steve Southerland, R-Fla. But Graham could be facing a primary from former state Senate Democratic leader Al Lawson who ran in 2010 and 2012. Lawson almost defeated then-U.S. Rep. Allen Boyd in the primaries back in 2010 and he won the Democratic nomination to challenge Southerland in 2012.
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Marco Rubio: 'Obamacare is a Disaster in Progress' and Calls for Repeal
With news breaking on Tuesday night that the Obama administration intends to delay implementing the employer mandate part of its federal health care bill until 2015, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., weighed in on Wednesday and called for the repeal of the entire law.
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Obamacare Employer Mandate Won't Happen Until 2015 -- It's a Done Deal
Inundated with complaints and mounting backlash, the Obama administration is delaying perhaps its largest and most controversial rule in implementing the Affordable Care Act, the "employer mandate."
It is being suspended for a year until January 2015.
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