Chart of the Week: The geography of the House’s conservative core
More than half of House Republicans who wanted to use the appropriations process to de-fund the Affordable Care Act are from the South.
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More than half of House Republicans who wanted to use the appropriations process to de-fund the Affordable Care Act are from the South.
Almost six-in-ten uninsured Americans live in states that haven’t set up their own health-insurance exchanges under the Affordable Care Act.
Surveyed shortly after the online health insurance exchanges launched, a plurality of Americans said they were not working well or at all.
Tea Party Republicans like some federal agencies as much as Democrats do.
Today, for the first time in 30 years, the U.S. Supreme Court will consider a constitutional challenge to the practice of legislative prayer. Here are five facts about the case.
This week, House Speaker John Boehner agreed to tie funding of the government to defunding Obamacare, as conservative members of his caucus have demanded. This proposal may be unlikely to survive the Democratic-controlled Senate, not to mention the president’s veto pen, but recent Pew Research Center surveys show that it is clearly in step with […]
A majority of Americans without health insurance say they will obtain it in the next six months, but only 26% say it is because of the health law’s requirement.
The public has long expressed a more negative opinion of “the government” than of the departments and agencies that actually carry out the work of government.
A majority of Americans say the news media’s coverage of the law has been focused on politics and controversies, rather than how it will impact people.
Two separate, but related conversations have been prominent on Twitter—one about the government shutdown and the other about President Obama’s health care law, the landmark legislation at the heart of the Congressional impasse that triggered the shutdown.
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