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The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday issued a 6-3 opinion upholding the eligibility of federal Health Insurance Marketplace enrollees to receive tax subsidies. “The system as it’s been is intact; there are no changes to how it’s been working," said Eric Schneider, outreach and eligibility specialist for High Country Community Health. "Everyone’s going to continue to get their… Read more »

Both members of Iredell County’s contingent to the U.S. House of Representatives were hoping a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court would take some of the wind from the sails of the Affordable Care Act, commonly referred to as "Obamacare." Through emails, both said they were disappointed on Thursday when the Supreme Court ruled, in a case known as King v. Burwell, that federal tax… Read more »

Up until Thursday morning, insurance agent Mark Thacker took calls from clients wondering what would happen to their health coverage if the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated a key part of the Affordable Care Act. Today, Thacker’s clients can wonder no longer. In the second landmark decision on the Affordable Care Act in the past three years, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to uphold… Read more »

The Obama administration has abandoned a plan for the federal government to rate colleges and universities, opting instead to give consumers more tools and information to draw their own conclusions. The announcement Thursday shifted the course of an initiative that had drawn sharp criticism from the higher education community soon after President Obama announced it on Aug. 22,… Read more »

WASHINGTON – Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., today voted in favor of bipartisan legislation designed to help keep electricity prices affordable for families and businesses. “The EPA is out of touch with the energy needs of Americans, and its unelected bureaucrats too often make decisions without consideration for how those choices will affect people's daily lives. The ‘Clean Power Plan’… Read more »

WASHINGTON – Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., today voted in favor of trade promotion authority, or TPA, legislation, which would impose congressional accountability to the president’s trade negotiation efforts through enhanced oversight and additional transparency.  “There have been many mischaracterizations of what TPA is. The allegation that TPA is something for President Obama is… Read more »

WASHINGTON – Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., today voted in favor of legislation that would permanently repeal Obamacare’s 2.3 percent excise tax on medical devices. “When the Democrat-controlled Congress rammed the so-called Affordable Care Act through this chamber, I joined my Republican colleagues in expressing our grave concerns over the effects of the law’s tax increases.… Read more »

A House employment subcommittee pushed Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez on Wednesday to explain how a proposed fiduciary duty regulation for financial advisers who work with retirement savers will affect adviser-client relationships and the quantity of lawsuits advisers deal with. The department's plan is to make advisers act in the best interest of their customers if they get paid to… Read more »

The U.S. House voted Tuesday to give itself more time to try to salvage President Barack Obama’s faltering trade agenda. House members will now have until July 30 to reconsider a vote on trade-adjustment assistance that failed last Friday. House leaders originally planned to bring up the issue early this week. The House voted 236 to 189 for the extension, including it in a rule for… Read more »

Utah’s Jason Chaffetz caught the eye of Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and other GOP leaders last year when he traded reciprocal home district visits with the ranking Democrat on the bitterly divided House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. On Armed Services, Mac Thornberry of Texas continued to cement his credentials as one of the GOP’s top defense wonks by leading a task… Read more »