by Jane Richey | Dec 14, 2012 | Health Care
The “essential benefit” mandates in President Obama’s healthcare law will drive up costs for small businesses, House Small Business Committee Chairman Sam Graves (R-Mo.) said Thursday. Graves, in a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary...
by Jane Richey | Dec 14, 2012 | Health Care, Politics
Jorge, the illegal alien, who just received hundreds of thousands of dollars in free health care, shamelessly parroted the Democrats’ “health care is a right” mantra when he asked, “Why can’t we be treated the same?” After all,...
by Jane Richey | Dec 13, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Pennsylvania would lose about $300 million in federal money starting in January, said Charles Zogby, Gov. Tom Corbett‘s budget secretary. “The potential impact of going over the ‘fiscal cliff,‘ on every state, is enormous,” Corbett told the Tribune-Review last week....
by Jane Richey | Dec 13, 2012 | Voting Issues
This morning in Commonwealth Court, the next steps could be decided in the legal battle over Pennsylvania’s new law requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls. The law passed the GOP-controlled legislature last spring, and was promptly signed...
by Jane Richey | Dec 13, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Rep. James Lankford (R-Okla.) said that while President Barack Obama is advocating for Clinton-era tax rates on the nation’s top income earners, he “completely ignores Clinton-level spending,” which declined in the 1990s. “The president’s very focused on trying to get...