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Kathy Castor & Tampa health officials celebrate signing of “Doc Fix” Medicare bill

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President Obama is scheduled to host congressional leaders of both parties at the White House later this afternoon to cheer on a recently passed bill that makes reforms to Medicare. The bill eliminated Congress’s two-decade old Medicare payment problems known as the “doc fix,” and has been hailed as a rare form of bipartisanship in Washington. “If this bill had not gone forth, we were looking at a 21 percent cut in Medicare funding for physicians,” said Dr. Bradley Fouraker,…

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Should Tampa Bay Times have done more to alert authorities about Capitol gyrocopter stunt?

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A Florida newspaper that knew ahead of time that a man planned to fly a gyrocopter into restricted airspace at the U.S. Capitol faced questions Thursday about whether its editors should have used the knowledge to try and stop the risky stunt. The Tampa Bay Times, which posted reporter Ben Montgomery in Washington on Wednesday to document postal worker Doug Hughes‘ self-styled protest flight that landed on the Capitol grounds, said that its responsibility was to cover, not change, the…

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Rand Paul and 2016: A message of change, delivered deadpan

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Change? For sure. Hope? Maybe not so much. That’s Rand Paul‘s approach to winning the White House when the original hope-and-change candidate, Barack Obama, vacates it in early 2017. Ready to enter the chase for the Republican presidential nomination this week, the first-term Kentucky senator has designs on changing how members of his party go about getting elected to the White House and how they govern once they get there. He will do so with an approach to politics that…

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Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton meet privately at the White House

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President Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton met privately at the White House Monday afternoon. The White House says the former rivals-turned-colleagues met for about an hour and discussed a range of issues. Obama and Clinton have met occasionally since she left the administration in 2013 after serving as secretary of state. Monday’s meeting comes as Clinton prepares to launch another presidential campaign. Moments after the White House confirmed the meeting, Clinton posted a message on Twitter praising Obama’s health…

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Jeb Bush jumps into retail politics of Iowa’s caucuses

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Since announcing on Facebook his plan to explore running for president, Jeb Bush has courted high-dollar donors in private rooms and luxury resorts, and delivered weighty speeches in hotel ballrooms and city clubs. This weekend, he was at a Pizza Ranch. The former Florida governor arrived in Cedar Rapids behind schedule, a sign as strong as any that he is, in fact, running for president. Looking a bit disheveled, with his open-collared shirt coming untucked, Bush took questions for more…

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‘House of Cards’ dealt Netflix a winning hand

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Even if it never wins another award, “House of Cards” already ranks among the most influential series in television history. The political drama launched Netflix’s expansion into original programming two years ago, a risky bet that might have toppled the Internet video service had “House of Cards” flopped and squandered its estimated $100 million investment. Instead, the show was an immediate hit with viewers and critics, giving Netflix the financial clout and creative firepower to further transform how we watch…

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A food-intervention crisis solution from the government and a chef

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Everybody at one time or another has had junk food: burgers, potato chips, ice cream, cookies, etc. The taste and texture of these delightfully tempting foods can create fans for life. There are people who always consume unhealthy, high-sugar, and high-fat foods on a regular basis. To some, it’s a way of life and changing their eating habits is not something they’re interested in doing. But with the intervention of the White House and Jamie Oliver, chef, author, and crusader,…

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