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While Mitt Romney #39;s taxes continue to dog his campaign, his vice-presidential pick, comments about China and a tour of Ohio this week all put the presumptive. With both the Republican and...
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Happy Mother #39;s Day - Minnesota Senate Republican Caucus (MNSRC)
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Her assurance against an approach reviled by Republicans and industry leaders came during a two-hour Senate confirmation hearing at which Burwell received an important endorsement from Republican Senator Richard Burr of North Carolina. Burr sits on the Senate Finance Committee, which will decide whether to send her nomination to the floor for a final vote.
"I will vote for her in the Finance Committee," Burr said in the latest sign that Burwell's nomination is in for a smooth confirmation ride through the Senate. "I look forward to her confirmation being quick and our ability to then work together to be every bit as quick."
A widely respected technocrat known as an effective problem-solver, Burwell also won the backing of the health insurance industry's powerful lobbying and trade group, America's Health Insurance Plans, which described her in a statement as "uniquely qualified" to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.
Burwell appeared on Thursday before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee for her first of two hearings. The Finance Committee has yet to set a date for its proceedings, but Democrats who control the Senate hope to have her confirmation wrapped up before the U.S. Memorial Day holiday on May 26.
Obamacare is intended to extend subsidized health coverage to millions of uninsured Americans through new online private insurance markets and an expansion of the Medicaid program for the poor. Nearly 13 million enrolled in coverage for 2014, including over 8 million through the private insurance markets known as exchanges, according to the administration.
Foes of the law have long vilified it as a ploy for moving the $3 trillion U.S. health system to a single-payer format run by the federal government instead of the private sector, a claim that has gained new life in this year's congressional election campaign.
Republican Senator Pat Roberts of Kansas asked Burwell if such a move was her "endgame," citing top Democrats, including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, as having endorsed the idea.
But Burwell reminded Roberts that the centerpiece of Obamacare is a private market-based insurance system of state-based health insurance exchanges.
"That's what the exchanges are," she told Roberts. "I look forward to, if confirmed, making that system work as efficiently and effectively as possible, both in terms of cost and access."
While still under questioning by Roberts, Burwell sought to ease another conservative fear: the Independent Payment Advisory Board, or IPAB, a 15-member government panel maligned by Republicans as a "death panel" because of its intended role in trimming costs within Medicare, the government healthcare program for the elderly and disabled.
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Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney today joined the small but growing chorus of Republican voices calling for a reasonable increase in the minimum wage, saying he part(s) company with many of the conservatives in my party on the issue of the minimum wage. I think we ought to raise it.
Frankly, our party is all about more jobs and better pay and I think communicating that is important, he said today on MSNBCs Morning Joe.The key for our party is to be able to convince the people who are in the working population, particularly the Hispanic community, that our party will help them get better jobs and better wages.
Romney, who in 2012 was lambasted for his 47 percent comment, is not the first 2012 Republican hopeful to speak out against the GOPs resistance to raising the minimum wage. His former opponent, Rick Santorum, also criticized conservative lawmakers refusal to pass a hike.
This is one I dont get, Santorum said earlier this week. Lets not make this argument that, you know, were for the blue collar guy but were against any minimum wage increase, ever. It just makes no sense.
Santorum advocated that the minimum wage should cover at least 7 percent of workers 5 percent more than the 2 percent it covers currently.
We should try to keep it in the 7 percent range, whatever gets you to 7 percent, he said, noting that historically, the minimum wage has covered 7 to 9 percent of the nations working population.
Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty also called on his conservative colleagues to consider an increase, suggesting their ardent opposition damages the party brand.
The Republicans should support reasonable increase in the minimum wage, he said on Morning Joe. If youre going to talk the talk about being for the middle class and the working person, if we have a minimum wage, it should be reasonably adjusted from time to time.
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Republican Party shake up and getting Dane Eagle to speak
A big shake up in the power structure for the Lee County Republican Party.
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