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- Health plans ordered to cover birth control without co-pays
- Mitt Romney drives a wedge into the tea party
- Rep. West calls Obama ‘weak’ on Iran
| Health plans ordered to cover birth control without co-pays Posted: 20 Jan 2012 07:54 PM PST By Julian Pecquet – The Hill Most healthcare plans will be required to cover birth control without charging co-pays or deductibles starting Aug. 1, the Obama administration announced Friday. The final regulation retains the approach federal health officials proposed last summer, despite the deluge of complaints from religious groups and congressional Republicans that has poured in since then. Churches, synagogues and other houses of worship are exempt from the requirement, but religious-affiliated hospitals and universities only get a one-year delay and must comply by Aug. 1, 2013. "This decision was made after very careful consideration, including the important concerns some have raised about religious liberty," Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said in a statement. "I believe this proposal strikes the appropriate balance between respecting religious freedom and increasing access to important preventive services.” Congressional Republicans slammed the decision as an assault on religious freedom. To read more, visit: http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/205413-obama-administration-orders-health-plans-to-cover-birth-control-without-co-pays |
| Mitt Romney drives a wedge into the tea party Posted: 20 Jan 2012 07:49 PM PST
Reporting from Columbia, S.C.— Karen Martin was one of the original tea partyers in a state that helped birth the movement. One of her biggest achievements was helping Nikki Haley beat the old-boy network to become governor. So when Haley threw her support behind Mitt Romney’s presidential bid, Martin, like many tea party activists, was not at all pleased. She has two political priorities: beating President Obama and making sure someone other than Romney faces him in November. “I want someone with a core of conservative values that have stayed the same all along,” said Martin, a tea party leader in Spartanburg County, who will support Newt Gingrich Saturday in the first Southern primary. South Carolina was a hotbed of conservative insurgency in 2010, electing Haley, sweeping other tea party favorites into statewide and local offices and sending several acolytes to Congress. Yet by endorsing Romney, Haley has underscored a schism that has emerged within the fledging movement, between some who are embracing the political system — and the compromise it sometimes requires — and others who are still fighting it. To read more, visit: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-tea-party-20120121,0,4385243.story |
| Rep. West calls Obama ‘weak’ on Iran Posted: 20 Jan 2012 07:42 PM PST By Jeremy Herb, The Hill Calling President Obama weak for the way he's dealing with Iran, Tea Party Republican Rep. Allen West (Fla.) told The Hill that the United States should be saying "game on" to Iran in the face of its recent threats to close the Strait of Hormuz. "Right now he's not conveying any kind of strength whatsoever," West said of Obama. "If I were sitting at the White House I would say two words to Iran — that's 'game on.' " West, an Army veteran and House Armed Services Committee member, criticized Obama over a report Wednesday that an Iranian lawmaker said Obama had called for direct talks with Iran in a secret communication to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei. Obama administration officials disputed the report. In the face of Iran's belligerence, West said, talks are not likely to stop the country's nuclear ambitions. "Sooner or later you have to understand that the only thing they're going to recognize is strength and might, and you must have a credible and viable military threat on the table," West said. "We're telegraphing ourselves to be weak." To read more, visit: http://thehill.com/blogs/defcon-hill/policy-and-strategy/205309-rep-west-we-should-tell-iran-game-on |
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