Boehner And McConnell: Our Way Or We Break Medicare
Your big Obamacare story of the day is that John Boehner and Mitch McConnell won’t recommend commissioners to the Independent…
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Brian Beutler
Brian Beutler is TPM's senior congressional reporter. Since 2009, he's led coverage of health care reform, Wall Street reform, taxes, the GOP budget, the government shutdown fight and the debt limit fight. He can be reached at brian(at)talkingpointsmemo.com.
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Meet Democrats’ Newest Republican Crush: Ted Cruz?!?!
Starting around the time he launched a bogus attack on then-Defense Secretary nominee Chuck Hagel, Democrats have loved to hate…
Republicans Are Blocking Budget Negotiations Because The Debt Limit Is Too Far Away
Let me be the first to say that Republicans in Congress have perfectly good reasons for not wanting to return…
Paul Ryan: Of Course Mitt And I Were Gonna Enact My Budget!
This comes from the department of dodged bullets or missed opportunities, depending on your predilections. But independent of your point of view it’s a pointed reminder of the deceptiveness of the Romney campaign.
Yes, Health Insurance Saves Lives — Part Two
With thanks to Ross Douthat for replying to my post yesterday about Medicaid and mortality, I want to take issue with the following arguments.
Health Care Spending Growth May Have Slowed Permanently — With Huge Implications For The Economy And Deficits
Health care spending growth has famously slowed over the past five years, significantly enough that the Congressional Budget Office recently…
Harry Reid Smacks Down “Schoolyard Bully” Ted Cruz, Budget Edition (VIDEO)
As we’ve been reporting for a few weeks, now that Senate Dems have passed a budget, Republicans have suddenly lost…
Dynamic Scorning
I’m not sure if the folks at the conservative Heritage Foundation realized their propagandistic new study on the budgetary effects…
Yes, Health Insurance Saves Lives
There have been so many hasty and opportunistic reactions to the famed Oregon Medicaid study that containing the spread of…
The Big News In The Jobs Numbers Is The Upward Revisions For Prior Months
The U.S. economy added 165,000 jobs in April, according to an initial Bureau of Labor Statistics report, slightly above analyst…
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