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Cuomo Orders Health Care Exchange, Though Obamacare Under Review

Posted 04.13.2012

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Governor Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order Thursday creating a health care exchange in New York, an online marketplace where consumers can shop f...

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Why Are Taxpayers Subsidizing Anti-Gay Discrimination?

Adam Winkler | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Equality, Politics, Gay Rights, Workplace Discrimination, Executive Order, President Obama, LGBT Rights, Discrimination, Barack Obama, Politics News
Adam Winkler

The time has come for President Obama to sign an executive order banning sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination by federal contractors.

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Paul Blumenthal

19 Words Could Mean Big Disclosure Of Secret Money

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 12.16.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Hidden within the mammoth omnibus appropriations bill crafted by House, Senate and White House negotiators is a 19-word change to a ride...

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One Honored Obama Campaign Promise Could Help Slash Jobs Deficit

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 10.12.2011

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Lloyd Chapman

It defies all logic and reason for President Obama to be aware of this problem, acknowledge it during his campaign, and yet do nothing. It is a win-win for the American people and our economy.

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Executive Order Could Slash Jobs Deficit

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 10.03.2011

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Lloyd Chapman

Congress' focus is in the wrong place. The biggest challenge the U.S. faces right now is the jobs deficit, not the budget deficit. Unemployment rates determine a healthy and functioning economy, and those rates are reaching new heights.

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The People's Business

Adam Skaggs | Posted 08.16.2011

Read More: Transparency, Marc Thiessen, John Boehner, Executive Order, Darrell Issa, Campaign Spending, Democracy, Citizens United, Political Spending, Politics News
Adam Skaggs

Secret spending in elections is toxic. The Obama administration's draft executive order to increase transparency in political spending is a big step in the right direction. It is time for the president to sign it.

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Darrell Issa's Latest Investigation: The Threats of Government Transparency

Michael B. Keegan | Posted 07.12.2011

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Michael B. Keegan

At the start of the 112th Congress, Issa started the House Transparency Caucus. But curiously, since then he hasn't actually shown any interest in promoting government transparency or accountability.

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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Wonderland

Robert Weissman | Posted 07.10.2011

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Robert Weissman

It's a good rule of thumb: If the U.S. Chamber of Commerce -- the trade association for large corporations -- is whipped up about something, there's p...

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New Obama Admin Procedures Import Troubling Aspects of Afghanistan Detention Review to Gitmo

Daphne Eviatar | Posted 05.25.2011

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Daphne Eviatar

The administration's decision to assign prisoners "personal representatives" rather than lawyers, and to allow continued indefinite detention based on classified evidence, reflects a serious limitation in the new order.

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Obama's Executive Order: Olive Branch to Whom?

Richard L. Revesz and Michael A. Livermore | Posted 05.25.2011

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Richard L. Revesz and Michael A. Livermore

The president's reaffirmation of the need for regulation shows a deep commitment to an aggressive agenda of agency regulation. The order is a solid step forward in the direction of more balanced review.

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President Obama Gets It Right: Regulation Hurts Innovation, So Why the Public Backlash?

Gary Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011

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Gary Shapiro

Are we confusing our passion for the free market with our emotion toward the person who occupies the Oval Office? Will President Obama be vilified no matter what he does?

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Al-Awlaki Decision Leaves Key Questions Unanswered

Daphne Eviatar | Posted 05.25.2011

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Daphne Eviatar

Under what circumstances is the U.S. government allowed to target for death an individual suspected of participating in terrorism in a foreign country where we are not actively engaged in a war?

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Ten Congressional Commandments

Bruce Fein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Bruce Fein

Members of Congress have abdicated to the president their constitutional responsibilities because of slavish devotion, staggering constitutional illiteracy, and a vassal-like conviction that the executive branch knows best.

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The Lame Duck Window

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chris Weigant

Democrats have the choice of making a final push to see some of their agenda items pass before Republicans take over the House, or they can shrug their shoulders and not even try.

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Obama: Create Jobs by Executive Order

Marjorie Cohn | Posted 05.25.2011

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Marjorie Cohn

Obama: Create Jobs by Executive Order By Jeanne Mirer and Marjorie Cohn On May 6, 1935, with the country in the midst of the Great Depression, and wi...

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Friday Talking Points [143] -- Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Appeal?

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chris Weigant

[OK, that was rather a fun title to write, but I have to at least begin with a warning that, while today's column is almost completely Obama-centric i...

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Bill Clinton: Time To Get Local

Michelle Kraus | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michelle Kraus

The United States and the economy were for the first time a big focus at the Clinton Global Initiative meeting last week in New York City. Hallelujah!

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Clinton's Global Initiative Gets Local

Michelle Kraus | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michelle Kraus

Why not have Bill Clinton turn his full attention to rebuilding America? He gets it, because if the US is broken, it will derail all of his global initiative.

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The Halting of Stem Cell Research Is the Culmination of a Decade-Long Legal Effort

Eli Y. Adashi | Posted 05.25.2011

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Eli Y. Adashi

The issuance of a temporary injunction barring the NIH from funding human embryonic stem cell research should hardly have come as a surprise. Many of the same plaintiffs and much of the same legal team filed a similar lawsuit a decade earlier.

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Obama Small Business Task Force May Ignore #1 Problem

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lloyd Chapman

On Monday, April 26, President Barack Obama announced the establishment of two task forces charged with removing barriers to access, and monitoring go...

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Jason Linkins

White House Press Corps Upset Over Lack Of Transparency At Executive Order Signing

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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The White House press corps is upset that Obama kept reporters from covering his signing of the Bart Stupak Mollification Executive Order Of 2010, instead opting to unceremoniously sign the order behind closed doors.

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Obama Signs Executive Order On Abortion: Small Group Of Anti-Abortion Lawmakers Witnessed Oval Office Ceremony

AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Anything but jubilant, President Barack Obama awkwardly kept a promise Wednesday he made to ensure passage of historic health care ...

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Executive Order On Abortion Announced By White House

AP | ERICA WERNER | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — A last-minute compromise that swung a half-dozen anti-abortion Democrats behind President Barack Obama's health care bill – v...

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You Don't Need a Year to End Don't Ask Don't Tell

Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 05.25.2011

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Emma Ruby-Sachs

There is no reason why the government cannot immediately suspend Don't Ask Don't Tell discharges. A year is a long time when your family and your job are on the line.

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Paterson To Extend Protection To Transgender People

nytimes.com | JEREMY W. PETERS | Posted 05.25.2011

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Gov. David A. Paterson is preparing to issue an executive order that would include transgender people in antidiscrimination policies that govern state...

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