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The growing ideological rift in the Kansas Republican Party has engulfed the implementation of the federal health care reform law, leaving the future of the state's role in Obama's health care reform program hanging in the balance. Read the Article>

After showing a record 51 percent of Americans with unfavorable views of the health-care reform law in October, opposition softened to 44 percent in November’s Kaiser Family Foundation tracking poll.

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Republican activists, increasingly optimistic they can win the White House and Senate next year, are beginning to lay the groundwork for a multi-pronged campaign in 2013 to roll back President Obama's sweeping healthcare overhaul.

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Sen. Olympia Snowe, the most moderate Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, parted ways with her GOP colleagues over their calls for tighter Medicare eligibility and Medicaid block grants, according to aides.

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Senate Republicans on Thursday asked for a hearing on the controversial CLASS Act program created by the healthcare reform law. Read the Article>

Ever since former Wisconsin governor Tommy Thompson surfaced as a potential candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2012, the conservative Club for Growth has waged a campaign to stop him from becoming the Republican nominee. Read the Article>

It would no longer have a far-reaching health-care law. The House voted to repeal that legislation in January. Read the Article>

President Barack Obama took on the entire GOP presidential field Monday — mocking their collective pledge to block even the slightest attempt to hike taxes on the rich — while singling out Mitt Romney for particularly scathing ridicule over his health reform stance. Read the Article>