Mackowiak: Special Session failure has limited impact
The theatrical fireworks that the country...
View ArticleSpecial option
Democrats in the Ohio House have had little influence in recent months in deciding Medicaid policy. On Thursday, they made a bold and valiant play to keep alive the option of expansion. With a day left...
View ArticleNH Gov. Hassan signs $10.7B state budget
Gov. Maggie Hassan signed the $10.7 billion budget Friday that reduces the wait for services by the disabled and mentally ill but fails to address deteriorating highways or the expansion of Interstate...
View ArticleMedicaid expansion wins Pa. Senate panel vote
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Legislation to potentially expand Medicaid eligibility to hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians under the 2010 federal health care law won approval from a Pennsylvania state...
View ArticleHouse adjourns with no movement on transit
HARRISBURG -- With a budget deadline looming tonight, state House members Saturday night adjourned without debating a major transportation funding package -- one of a pair of dueling bills that would...
View Article>Wash. lawmakers adjourn, end grueling year
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington lawmakers have adjourned for the year, bringing to end a grueling six months of work. The...
View ArticleMiss. Dems: We Were ‘Bamboozled’ On Medicaid
With just two days to spare, and with plenty of political drama, Mississippi lawmakers approved a plan late Friday to renew Medicaid for another year. The joint federal-state program, which provides...
View Article>Texas lawmakers are back, and so is abortion fight
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Round two of Texas' fierce ideological battle over abortion limits was set to begin Monday, less than a week after a Democratic filibuster and hundreds of raucous protesters threw...
View ArticleTexas Lawmakers Are Back, and So Is Abortion Fight
AUSTIN, Texas — Round two of Texas' fierce ideological battle over abortion limits was set to begin Monday, less than a week after a Democratic filibuster and hundreds of raucous protesters threw the...
View ArticleTexas abortion fight to reignite in second special session
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - When the Texas Legislature convenes on Monday for a second special session, the Republican majority will seek to do what it couldn't pull off in the first, when Democrat...
View ArticleMississippi Dems: We Were ‘Bamboozled’ On Medicaid
With just two days to spare, and with plenty of political drama, Mississippi lawmakers approved a plan late Friday to renew Medicaid for another year. The joint federal-state program, which provides...
View ArticleTexas Special Session Beginning With Abortion Fight
AUSTIN, Texas -- Round two of Texas' fierce ideological battle over abortion limits was set to begin Monday, less than a week after a Democratic filibuster and hundreds of raucous protesters threw the...
View ArticlePa. Senate sends Medicaid bill to hostile House
The Pennsylvania state Senate has approved legislation to require Gov. Tom Corbett to seek federal approval for an expansion...
View ArticleTexas’ abortion fight begins anew as lawmakers head back to work for second...
AUSTIN, Texas — Round two of Texas’ fierce ideological battle over abortion limits was set to begin Monday, less than a week after a Democratic filibuster and hundreds of raucous protesters threw the...
View ArticleMo. senators hear pleas to expand Medicaid access
Advocates for the mentally and physically ill urged lawmakers to expand access to Medicaid as a Senate panel began taking public testimony Tuesday on ways to improve the government-funded health care...
View ArticleSenate group named to explore Medicaid expansion
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Six Republican senators will meet over the summer to consider ways to possibly improve Medicaid expansion...
View ArticleTexas House approves abortion bill that sent 1st special session into chaos;...
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas House approves...
View ArticleSenate panel to meet again on Medicaid expansion
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A legislative committee plans to reconvene in two weeks to discuss Medicaid expansion after the...
View ArticlePERRY CALLS SPECIAL SESSION TO PASS ABORTION BILL
AUSTIN, Texas After a one-woman filibuster and a raucous crowd helped derail a GOP-led effort to restrict Texas abortions, Gov. Rick Perry announced Wednesday he’s calling back lawmakers next week...
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