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Maine gov vetoes Medicaid expansion for 2nd time
Maine Gov. Paul LePage on Monday vetoed a bill to accept federal dollars to expand health care coverage to 70,000 more Mainers, saying he fears the state will ultimately bear the financial burden for the new enrollees. The Democratic-controlled Legislature last week approved a retooled proposal to expand Medicaid coverage ...
NC NAACP protest ends with more than 80 arrests
A protest spearheaded by the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP led to the arrests of 84 people Monday at the state legislature in the seventh installment of the civil rights group's near-weekly demonstrations. Protesters and supporters railed against the health and environmental policies of the Republican-controlled legislature as well ...
Oregon Senate rejects schools budget
The Oregon Senate rejected a $6.55 billion budget for primary and secondary schools Monday after one Democrat and all 14 Republicans said it didn't provide enough money. The 15-15 vote complicates efforts to put together a new two-year state budget. The funding bill for schools would have represented an $800 ...
News from around Wisconsin at 5:59 p.m. CDT
Democrats urge moderate Republicans to join them MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democrats in the state Legislature called Monday for moderate Republicans to join them in voting against the state budget this week, and one of Wisconsin's most conservative lawmakers became the first in his party to publicly say he was ...
Va. Medicaid commission meets for first time
How do you expand Medicaid under the federal health overhaul law without provoking the wrath of conservatives dead set against it under any circumstances? A Virginia panel attempting that high-wire act took its first good look at the daunting challenge of modernizing the federal-state program, making it more like a ...
Maine lawmakers uphold LePage veto on 5 bills
Maine lawmakers have failed to get the two-third majority needed to override five vetoes from Republican Gov. Paul LePage. One of the measures considered Monday would have barred the state from contracting for timber harvesting on land under its management if the contractor employs foreign workers for logging. LePage called ...
Democrats urge moderate Republicans to join them
Democrats in the state Legislature called Monday for moderate Republicans to join them in voting against the state budget this week, and one of Wisconsin's most conservative lawmakers became the first in his party to publicly say he was casting a 'no' vote. Democrats were pressuring Republicans in advance of ...
GOP-backed bill expands Ohio's abortion rules
Women seeking an abortion in Ohio would have to wait longer, submit to an ultrasound and listen to their doctors describe features of the fetus under a Republican-backed bill that will have its first hearing this week. The bill would also require doctors to tell women that the procedure increases ...
Tenn. GOP supermajority struggles to find footing
Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam began the year by dismissing what he called misguided predictions that the new Republican supermajority in state government would devolve into infighting. Haslam went so far as to announce in his annual State of the State address in January that such a narrative "makes caricatures out ...
Corbett signs anti-abortion coverage bill in Pa.
Pennsylvania is joining about 20 other states in limiting coverage of abortions under health care insurance policies offered in a federally-run insurance marketplace starting next year under a sweeping federal law. The office of Gov. Tom Corbett, a Republican who opposes abortion rights, said he signed the bill Monday, without ...
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