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• Obama urges Senate to embrace immigration overhaul

  April 16, 2013 5:08 PM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is urging the Senate to move quickly on a comprehensive immigration overhaul drafted by a bipartisan group of senators. Obama says that the bill is a compromise measure and that nobody will get everything he wants - including him. But he says it's largely... more »

• Health overhaul anniversary: where do you stand?

  March 23, 2012 6:44 AM

  DENVER (AP) - Colorado may be as divided as the nation on whether to celebrate or protest the second anniversary of the new health care law. Supporters on the left including Democratic Rep. Diana DeGette of Denver are marking the occasion Friday with a forum on women's health. A few... more »

• Ryan: Gingrich 'inaccurate' on Medicare plan

  May 22, 2011 11:08 AM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - The architect of the House Republican plan for overhauling Medicare says presidential candidate Newt Gingrich's critical description of the proposal was deeply inaccurate and a gross mischaracterization. Last week Gingrich called Rep. Paul Ryan's Medicare proposal "right-wing social engineering." Gingrich took his words back a few... more »

• Judge to hear legal arguments in health plan suit

  September 14, 2010 8:22 AM

  A federal judge in Florida will hold a hearing on whether the president's health care overhaul, passed by Congress, is unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson will preside over the case Tuesday morning in Pensacola. Florida and 19 other states contend sections of the law that will require... more »

• States continue legal battle against health care law

  August 6, 2010 8:19 AM

  Twenty states and the nation's most influential small business lobby are about to respond to the federal government's attempt to dismiss their lawsuit challenging President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. The states, the National Federation of Independent Business and several individual taxpayers will file their response Friday. A key... more »

• Colorado candidate signs pledge to defund Health Overhaul

  July 30, 2010 1:34 PM

  A Republican candidate for Congress in Colorado's 3rd Congressional District, Bob McConnell, has joined a national movement to overturn the Health Care Overhaul bill passed by Congress. Called ObamaCare by opponents, the movement, DeFundIt.org, has signed pledges from almost 150 candidates nationwide who vow to overturn the newly passed legislation.... more »

• Governor unveils new health insurance plan

  July 6, 2010 10:56 AM

  A new health insurance plan to cover people with pre-existing conditions is now available in Colorado. Gov. Bill Ritter plans to announce the details of the plan Tuesday, the first day that customers will be accepted. It's a result of health care reform passed by Congress this year and... more »

• Obama pitching health overhaul to seniors

  June 8, 2010 8:20 AM

  President Barack Obama is turning his attention back to the massive health care bill he signed earlier this year, and trying to win over the most skeptical constituency: seniors. Obama is set to pitch the bill at a senior center in Wheaton, Md., on Tuesday. The event will be... more »

• Small business lobby joins challenge to health law

  May 14, 2010 8:19 AM

  The National Federation of Independent Business is joining a federal lawsuit filed in Florida by 20 state attorneys general and governors against the health care overhaul. The nation's most influential small business lobby is joining a court challenge that argues that Americans cannot be required under the Constitution to... more »

• Colorado lawmakers to tone down teacher tenure bill

  May 5, 2010 6:43 PM

  Colorado teachers have won some concessions in a bill that would hold them accountable for the performance of their students. Democratic sponsors said Wednesday they agreed to amend the bill to give teachers more of a say in their careers. Effective teachers who have been laid off would also... more »

• Senate will have to return health bill to House

  March 25, 2010 8:44 AM

  Senate Republicans have found minor glitches in a health care fix-it bill that will force it back to the House, and Democrats aren't ruling out the possibility of more flaws. An exhausted Senate labored past 2 a.m. Eastern time on a stack of GOP amendments. Jim Manley, spokesman for... more »

• Obama signs health overhaul bill

  March 23, 2010 12:15 PM

  President Barack Obama capped a yearlong political drama Tuesday, signing into law a landmark health care reform bill that had been seen as impossible just two months ago. The president said the law "will set into motion what a generation of Americans have fought for." He said he... more »

• Colorado effort to block health care overhaul

  March 22, 2010 5:07 PM

  Opponents of federal health care legislation want Colorado voters to block it at the polls. A proposed ballot measure would bar the state from enforcing the legislation, including a provision that would require most people to buy insurance. Meanwhile, some Republican lawmakers want Attorney General John Suthers to join... more »

• Colorado state pension overhaul bill signed into law

  February 23, 2010 5:41 PM

  Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter has signed a bill that cuts state employee retiree benefits to prevent the pension system from going broke. Ritter said the bill he signed Tuesday represents a difficult but necessary decision that will require shared sacrifice and shared solutions from public employers and employees without... more »

• Sweet deal for Louisiana in Health Bill

  February 4, 2010 1:43 PM

  Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu of Louisiana is defending a special deal in the health care bill for the federal government to pick up more of the cost of a Medicaid expansion in her state. She made the argument Thursday in a defiant speech on the Senate floor. The... more »

• Democrats to begin discussing smaller health bill

  January 21, 2010 10:32 AM

  President Barack Obama and his Democratic allies are conceding that they may have to accept a less ambitious health overhaul. That's after a Republican won Tuesday's special Senate election in Massachusetts, ending the Democratic caucus' 60-vote majority. Officials say a more modest health care bill could focus on curbing insurance... more »

• "Free Our Health Care" rally at state capitol Tuesday

  January 18, 2010 6:15 PM

  A rally will be held in front of the Colorado Capitol building Tuesday in support of a 2010 ballot initiative that would attempt to exempt Colorado from President Obama's health care legislation. Those attending the rally will be wearing "Obama Care - Hell No, Colorado Won't Go" buttons. ... more »

• US health care tab to keep growing under overhaul

  December 11, 2009 12:05 PM

  A new government report is sending a sober economic warning to Democrats trying to push President Barack Obama's health care overhaul plan through the Senate. The analysis from nonpartisan economic experts at the Health and Human Services Department concludes that the nation's health care tab will grow more rapidly under... more »

• Senate to vote on abortion issue

  December 7, 2009 11:11 AM

  Sen. Claire McCaskill says a Senate move to embrace the tough anti-abortion language in a House version of health care legislation must be defeated. McCaskill says language in the bill now on the Senate floor retains long-standing policy prohibiting federal funds for abortion - and that's sufficient. The Missouri Democrat... more »