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12:20 PM ET, October 24, 2013

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Rebecca Shabad / The Hill:
ObamaCare website contractors blame Obama administration  —  Principal contractors hired to build the ObamaCare website HealthCare.gov are hitting back at the Obama administration for the site's overwhelming technical problems.  —  The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) …
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New York Times:
Republicans, Sensing Weakness in Health Law Rollout, Switch Tactics  —  WASHINGTON — Emboldened by the intense public criticism surrounding the rollout of the online insurance exchange, Republicans in Congress are refocusing their efforts from denying funds for the health care law to investigating it.
Norm Ornstein / NationalJournal.com:
Buck Stops With Obama on Rocky Rollout of Health Care Plan  —  The HealthCare.gov debacle has been thoroughly dissected so far by America's best health journalists and policy analysts.  To be sure, every major rollout of a new or changed social policy, including Medicare itself, is rough and takes weeks or months to resolve.
Cole Premo / CBS Minnesota:
Rep. Nolan: Firings Needed Over Health Law Woes  —  MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) - Frustrated Democrats are complaining about the problem-plagued rollout of the new health care program known as Obamacare.  And one Minnesota Congressman, Democrat Rick Nolan, says President Obama needs to “man up, step up” and start firing people.
Sandhya Somashekhar / Washington Post:
Americans will have an extra six weeks to buy health coverage before facing penalty
Robert Pear / New York Times:
Contractors Assign Blame, but Admit No Faults of Their Own, in Health Site
Discussion: Politico and First Read
Rebecca Shabad / The Hill:
Daley: ObamaCare rollout ‘a big embarassment’
Discussion: Politico
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
White House may ‘align’ Obamacare signup dates
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama to push House on immigration reform
Discussion: Politico
Jeane MacIntosh / New York Post:
Obama wants Marines to wear ‘girly’ hats  —  A change to the Marine Corps' uniform hats could take the hard-nosed Leathernecks from the Halls of Montezuma to the shops of Christopher Street.  —  Thanks to a plan by President Obama to create a “unisex” look for the Corps …
Ashley Parker / New York Times:
A Wife Committed to Cruz's Ideals, but a Study in Contrasts to Him  —  WASHINGTON — At first glance, Senator Ted Cruz's wife, Heidi Nelson Cruz, seems to be just the sort of person the Tea Party supporters who celebrate her husband's anti-establishment positions love to hate.
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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Ted Cruz's Wife Confirms He's Covered Under Her Blue-Chip Health Plan  —  The wife of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), who led a vocal effort to defund the Affordable Care Act, confirmed in a New York Times interview published Wednesday that the senator receives health care coverage through her blue-chip employer insurance plan.
Discussion: Liberaland
Kyle Cheney / Reuters:
What makes HealthCare.gov so complicated?  —  Building a website in 2013 should be as easy as U-R-L, so what's the deal with HealthCare.gov?  —  The White House billed the Obamacare portal as the Kayak.com of health coverage — only instead of plane rides, it was selling health insurance.
Discussion: Politico and Infowars
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Medicaid could be the next headache for Obamacare
Discussion: americanthinker.com
Megan McArdle / Bloomberg:
Why Obamacare Is Like Three Mile Island  —  I've been blogging a lot over the past week or so about the risk of an insurance market “death spiral” — where young people stay away, so the only people buying insurance are old and sick, causing the cost of insurance to rise over time and pushing ever …
EndPlay / WIVB-TV:
Hillary Clinton speaks at UB, is heckled … AMHERST, N.Y. (WIVB) - Former First Lady and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke to a large crowd at the University at Buffalo Wednesday night, as part of the university's Distinguished Speaker Series.
Beth Reinhard / NationalJournal.com:
Inside the Messy but Moneyed Republican Plan to Neutralize the Tea Party  —  The business-friendly GOP establishment is putting its cash to work in skirmishes across the country that might reshape the 2014 elections.  —  It took a tea party insurrection that disabled the federal government …
Todd S. Purdum / Politico:
Trash-talking the president  —  No matter how many times you've been there, the White House is a pretty awesome place, conferring on every president what “The West Wing” creator Aaron Sorkin once called “the single greatest home-court advantage in the modern world.”
New York Times:
Health Care Law Fails to Lower Prices for Rural Areas  —  As technical failures bedevil the rollout of President Obama's health care law, evidence is emerging that one of the program's loftiest goals — to encourage competition among insurers in an effort to keep costs low — is falling short for many rural Americans.
Discussion: The PJ Tatler and Althouse
Dylan Byers / Politico:
NYT's Rick Berke to join POLITICO as executive editor  —  Rick Berke, the veteran New York Times editor, has been named executive editor at POLITICO.  —  Berke, who joined the Times as a reporter in 1986, replaces Jim VandeHei, who was promoted earlier this month to President and CEO of POLITICO and Capital New York.
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Lew calls on Congress to replace sequester  —  Treasury Secretary Jack Lew on Thursday said House and Senate budget negotiators should replace the sequester with other spending cuts.  —  Lew said the sequester has been a drag on the economy, and that it should be replaced with longer-term measures to reduce spending.
Discussion: Politico
Politico:
GOP reconsiders Obamacare tactics  —  Some Republicans say a unified focus on spending levels could prove to be the strongest ground on which to fight.  Democrats loathe sequester-level spending — their 2014 budget totaled $1.058 trillion.  If all Republicans demand a clean government funding bill …
Baltimore Sun:
Gansler says breaking up teen party was not his job  —  Attorney general has advocated against underage drinking  —  Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler (white shirt with cell phone, right of center) is seen in a photo posted to Instagram from a senior week party in Delaware this summer.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
David Nather / Reuters:
Obamacare hearings: Oversight or heckling?  —  There's congressional oversight that answers everyone's most urgent questions - and then there's just heckling from the partisan peanut gallery.  —  Over the next few weeks, Republicans are going to have to decide which path they're …
Discussion: CNN and First Read
Nicholas G. Hahn III / RealClearReligion:
The Devil and Herman Cain  —  It's been two years since allegations of sexual misconduct surfaced, but Herman Cain is finally fighting back.  —  The former Republican presidential hopeful gave RealClearReligion an exclusive look at evidence he'll be using in a soon-to-be published column …
Daniel Henninger / Wall Street Journal:
Henninger: Obama's Credibility Is Melting  —  Here and abroad, Obama's partners are concluding they cannot trust him.
Washington Wire:
Live Blog: Thursday's Hearing on HealthCare.gov Problems  —  A new round of finger-pointing will kick off Thursday morning when a House committee grills four contractors involved in the development of Healthcare.gov, the troubled site where uninsured consumers are supposed to be able to sign up for health insurance.
Discussion: Digits and Josh Blackman's Blog
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Darrell Issa to introduce immigration bill  —  Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) is planning to release legislation next week that would provide legal status for six years to undocumented immigrants in the United States, he said in an interview Wednesday.  —  Issa, an influential Republican …
Discussion: The PJ Tatler
 
 
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Danielle / Congressman Darrell Issa:
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UC Davis pepper-spray officer awarded $38,000
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