December 20, 2015 Firms behind HealthCare.gov to testify, spread blame to administration The contractors behind the troubled ObamaCare website are planning to spread the blame around during highly anticipated testimony Thursday morning on Capitol Hill.
December 20, 2015 Sebelius 'will testify' on ObamaCare website woes, Durbin says A top Democratic senator said Sunday that Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius will testify before Congress about the problem-plagued ObamaCare website, amid a growing call for her to accept requests to testify.
December 20, 2015 ObamaCare site glitches run risk of turning off millenials The prolonged glitches with the ObamaCare website is frustrating many of the president’s most high-valued customers -- the young, tech-savvy generation that helped him win two terms and whose participation is critical to the success of the health care exchanges.
December 20, 2015 Lunch is free for all students in some Florida schools, due to new federal program Want a free lunch? Take a seat at your local school cafeteria.
December 20, 2015 ObamaCare opens to widespread delays, more Capitol Hill wrangling The opening day of ObamaCare was marked by glitches, as Capitol Hill lawmakers continued their ugly partisan fighting over the law.
December 20, 2015 Age of ObamaCare Begins: Launch to test claims of law’s supporters, foes The sales pitches for and against ObamaCare have all been made. It’s now up to Americans to judge whether the law works as advertised, as the so-called insurance “exchanges” launch Tuesday.
December 20, 2015 Study: Food stamps most rapidly growing welfare program Food stamps are the most inefficient, vastly expanding social welfare program in the country, according to a new study.
December 20, 2015 Tennessee law prohibiting welfare cards for liquor and lap dances flounders A new Tennessee law that forbids people from using electronic benefit transfer cards at adult establishments including strip clubs and liquor stores hasn’t gone into effect — and one Memphis liquor store owner said no one has formally notified him of the change.
December 20, 2015 Feds try to eliminate housing for the deaf -- at complex built for hearing-impaired Arizona is defying a federal order to eliminate apartments for deaf seniors at a housing complex built specifically -- for the deaf.
December 20, 2015 What to Cut? Federal gov’t takes on more duties, as states take on less CSX trains run over 21,000 miles of track in 23 eastern states -- part of a private, profitable company that delivers goods at competitive prices. It was born during the Reagan administration, put together from the rusty remnants of Conrail, a government-run freight rail that, at its worst, was losing a million dollars a day.
