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Roby Questions Sebelius About Religious Liberty

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Congresswoman Martha Roby (R) from Montgomery released a statement about her questioning of President Barack H. Obama’s Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on the subject of protecting religious liberty. Rep. Roby asked Sec. Sebelius how the administration’s mandate that employers provide all manner of birth control … Continued
May 21, 2012

Obama Comments on Supreme Court Review of Obamacare

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter At a meeting on Monday with President Calderón of Mexico and Prime Minister Harper of Canada, President Barack H. Obama slammed the U.S. Supreme Court calling them “an unelected group of people” and seemed to take offense that the Court “would somehow overturn a duly constituted and passed law.” … Continued
April 4, 2012

Sessions Says Protecting Obamacare is Why Democrats in Senate Won’t Pass a Budget

By Brandon MoseleyAlabama Political Reporter  Thursday Senator Jeff Sessions (R) from Alabama suggested that the Democratic leadership of the Senate were refusing to pass a budget because they were protecting the President’s highly controversial healthcare plan, which gradually seizes control of a sixth of the American economy.  Sen. Sessions said that if the Majority Leader … Continued
April 2, 2012

Congressman Rogers Says He Is Committed to Repeal of Obamacare

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter In a written statement Congressman Mike Rogers (R) from Anniston says “I strongly supported H.R. 2, the Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act, which would repeal the healthcare law.” Congressman Rogers said that in a Rasmussen survey on March 19th 56% of the American people said that they … Continued
April 2, 2012

BACHUS ISSUES STATEMENT ON SUPREME COURT HEARING ON OBAMACARE

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Congressman Spencer Bachus (R) from Vestavia issued a written statement after oral arguments concluded at the U.S. Supreme Court on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (better known as Obamacare). Rep. Bachus said, “My view from inside the legislative process was always that Obamacare represented … Continued
March 29, 2012

Luther Strange Comments on Obamacare Suit Before the U.S. Supreme Court

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange and 25 other states’ attorneys general, the National Federation of Independent Business plus four individual plaintiffs have spent Monday and Tuesday making oral arguments before the United States Supreme Court in their suit against the Barack H. Obama Administration’s radical health care plan, the … Continued
March 28, 2012

Congresswoman Sewell Remains a Steadfast Supporter of the Affordable Care Act

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Congresswoman Terri A. Sewell (D) from Selma released a statement today announcing that she remains a supporter of the President’s controversial healthcare reform law and that “as a member of Congress, I will continue to vote against efforts to repeal this important law.” Rep. Sewell said, “Today marks the … Continued
March 27, 2012

Luther Strange Joins EWTN Lawsuit

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange (R) filed a motion to join in a federal lawsuit challenging the contraception coverage mandate imposed by the Obama Administration on religious employers under Obamacare which was signed by President Barack H. Obama in March 2010. The Attorney General’s statements said, “The contraception mandate … Continued
March 22, 2012

CBO Increases Estimates of Cost of Obamacare

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Senator Jeff Session (R) from Alabama said that the estimates from the Congressional Budget Office are still rising “ominous.”  Based on this new information, Sen. Sessions, the Ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, sent a letter to Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D) from North Dakota urging him to … Continued
March 19, 2012

Congressman Bachus Says Supreme Court Should Declare Obamacare Unconstitutional

By Brandon MoseleyAlabama Political Reporter Congressman Spencer Bachus(R) from Vestavia  issued a press release announcing that he and over a hundred other members of Congress had signed on in support of a brief to the United States Supreme Court asking the Court to declare the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, commonly referred … Continued
January 10, 2012