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  • Feds Reject Connecticut's Medicaid Cuts
  • The federal government has rejected the state's controversial request to tighten Medicaid eligibility, a change that had been expected to leave more than 13,000 poor adults without health care coverage.





  • Michigan Legislature OKs State-Based Health Exchange
  • The framework of the Affordable Care Act is beginning to take shape in Michigan, as state legislators, some reluctantly, agreed to begin setting up the policies and processes needed to implement the sweeping national health care reform.
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  • Supreme Court Appears Divided on Voting Rights Act
  • At issue is whether the act’s Section 5 provision, which requires all or part of 16 states to get any changes to election law pre-approved by either the Justice Department or a federal court, is still necessary and constitutional in today’s world.
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  • Democratic Governors Fear Gun Reform Moment Has Passed
  • Now that expanded background checks seem to be the only initiative that may pass Congress, the most powerful bloc of gun-control proponents in the country is conceding that the gripping sense of outrage following the Sandy Hook massacre has ebbed.

  • Idaho Gov. Otter Seeks State Control of Public Land in D.C.
  • Butch Otter urged a Congressional committee to create a pilot project that would give Idaho control over 2 million of the more than 20 million acres of federal public land in the state.


  • Sheriff Arpaio Offers to Detain Freed Illegal Immigrants in 'Tent City'
  • Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio says he has a solution for the federal government’s mass release of illegal immigrants to cut costs ahead of the sequester: Send them for free to his “Tent City," where prisoners sleep in tents and are required to wear pink underwear.




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