Posts Tagged ‘mandate’

Upton, Waxman Launch Debate on Biofuels Mandate

For the first time since President Obama won the White House in 2008, the top Republican and Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee are working collaboratively on a controversial piece of energy policy: the renewable-fuels standard. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post

Employer wins relief from U.S. contraceptives mandate

(Reuters) – A divided federal appeals court has temporarily barred the U.S. government from requiring an Illinois company to obtain insurance coverage for contraceptives, as mandated under the 2010 healthcare overhaul, after the owners objected on religious grounds. More than 40 lawsuits are challenging a requirement in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that [...]

Employer wins relief from U.S. contraceptives mandate

(Reuters) – A divided federal appeals court has temporarily barred the U.S. government from requiring an Illinois company to obtain insurance coverage for contraceptives, as required under the 2010 healthcare overhaul, after the owners objected on religious grounds. More than 40 lawsuits are challenging a requirement in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that [...]

Obama Gets Bounce But No Mandate

A new ABC News/Washington Post poll finds President Obama’s approval rate at 54%, his highest (excepting a brief bin Laden bounce) in nearly two years. And even while weakly rated on the economy, he leads the Republicans in trust to handle it by 18 percentage points, his widest margin since July 2009. Tweet This Post

Romania PM says his alliance won stable mandate

BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Romania’s parliamentary election has given the ruling leftist alliance a mandate for the next four years and the ability to pursue long term projects, Prime Minister Victor Ponta said on Sunday. His leftist governing Social Liberal Union (USL) won a clear victory in the election and is headed for a majority of [...]

Catalan nationalists unlikely to win majority mandate: polls

MADRID (Reuters) – The Catalan nationalist party CiU will win regional parliamentary elections in Spain on November 25, but will not gain an absolute majority, newspaper polls showed on Sunday, weakening any bid for independence. Hundreds of thousands of Catalans marched in Spain’s second city Barcelona in September demanding independence as the central government imposes [...]

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Bush, Cheney back Obama’s mandate on taxes

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