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Assistant Labor Secretary Borzi says Affordable Care Act is on solid ground

The Affordable Care Act is on solid legal ground, having passed six sets of government legal reviews, Marquette University Law School students were told today by Assistant Secretary of Labor Phyllis Borzi, who contributed to earlier health reform attempts under President Bill Clinton, became an expert on the ERISA employee benefit system and helped draft the COBRA provision for federal employees.

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Ryan predicts Obamacare will ‘collapse under its own weight’

GOP Congressman Paul Ryan chooses Tea Party event where attendees call President Obama a “lyin’ African” for one of his first public speeches since losing the vice presidential election in November. Ryan announced that he was still intent on repealing Obamacare. Other media didn’t cover this much, but sure enough, Ryan’s new budget proposal a month later made national headlines.

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Why Tammy beat Tommy

Tommy Thompson lost to Tammy Baldwin in the U.S. Senate race becausevoters perceived her as being for them, while the former guv was thought to be in it for himself, according to strategists for both campaigns.

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Tommy Thompson: no further need to apologize for Kenya remark

Speaking today at an event where he received the endorsement of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Tommy Thompson said he does not think his son needs to apologize publicly or to the president for joking about sending Barack Obama “back to Kenya” at a GOP fundraiser. “He has already apologized, and that’s enough,” Thompson said at a Milwaukee news conference this afternoon. “It was an offhanded remark that somebody mentioned in the audience. If you look at the movie, he didn’t say it.

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Congressman Paul Ryan touts Wisconsin roots; criticizes Obama on the economy

Vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan criticized President Barack Obama’s economic record during a town hall meeting this morning at Carroll University in Waukesha. Ryan said the nation’s debt was $5 trillion lower before Obama took office. Not only is that debt hurting today’s economy, it jeopardizes the future, he said. “We have never knowingly given our children an inferior standard of living,” he said.

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Michelle Obama touts health care reform

In a fiery half-hour speech in Milwaukee, First Lady Michelle Obama told a crowd of about 2,000 people packed into the gym at Bradley Tech High School to “help us finish what we started” as she detailed President Barack Obama’s accomplishments since taking office. Thanks to Obama, she said, millions of people are now working and able to pay their bills, and “millions of people in this country can finally see a doctor when they’re sick.”

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