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• Tea Party Group Seeks Boehner Primary Challenger - Bloomberg

  "A Tea Party group is initiating a campaign to oust House Speaker John Boehner from his Ohio congressional district. The Tea Party Leadership Fund PAC is spending $23,200 to produce and air a television ad and $4,767 on polling in opposition to Boehner, according to a filing it made last night to the Federal Election Commission."

  tags: teaparty teabaggers republicans politics house

• House Unveils $1.01 Trillion Measure to Fund Government - Bloomberg

  "House and Senate appropriators agreed to a $1.01 trillion bipartisan bill to fund the U.S. government through Sept. 30, unveiling the measure days before funding for federal agencies is scheduled to lapse. "

  tags: budget government congress house senate obama democrats republicans

• Google buys Nest for $3.2 billion: Why Google wants a smart thermostat.

  "Google just announced that it’s buying Nest for $3.2 billion, in the highest-profile tech acquisition of the young year. "

  tags: google nest energy energyefficiency

• Obamcare signup figures: Early numbers skew older, while younger, healthier individuals stay on sidelines.

  "The Obama administration on Monday released its latest batch of healthcare enrollment numbers, figures that for the first time include the democraphic breakdown of those who have picked health plans in the federal and state exchanges as of December 28. The big takeaway from the monthly release is the fact that more older, presumably less healthy Americans have signed up than their younger, likely healthier counterparts. Adults aged 55 to 64 accounted for 33 percent of the 2.2 million people to sign up through healthcare.gov and the state-run websites; adults aged 18 to 34, meanwhile, represented 24 percent of those enrollees.* "

  tags: healthcare obama obamacare aca unitedstates health insurance

• NSA phone record collection does little to prevent terrorist attacks, group says - The Washington Post

  "An analysis of 225 terrorism cases inside the United States since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks has concluded that the bulk collection of phone records by the National Security Agency “has had no discernible impact on preventing acts of terrorism.” "

  tags: nsa spying surveillance bigbrother policestate civilliberties obama politics

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