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The rising Republican superstar is expected to top the vice presidential shortlist and on Wednesday the Florida Senator said Mitt Romney has "earned'' the Republican nomination for president and called a potential floor fight at the convention a "recipe for disaster," as National Journal's Beth Reinhard reports
Analysis: Rubio's Biography Could Be Ultimate Boon for Romney
Marco Rubio has a lot of things going for him: he's young, charismatic, conservative, Hispanic and hails from a vote-rich swing state. Yet there's something else, an ultimate intangible Rubio possesses, that would make him all the more indispensable to the Romney campaign come November: a gripping personal narrative, as Hotline's Tim Alberta writes.
Romney Joke Produces Not-So-Funny Backlash
An attempt at humor and friendly voter outreach backfired for Mitt Romney on Wednesday when he was roundly criticized by leading Democrats for joking that his father, as an American Motors executive decades ago, once shut down a factory in Michigan and moved it to Wisconsin.
Analysis: After the Ruling
The three days of arguments are over, protesters are going home, and the nine Supreme Court justices are left to decide among themselves what to do with health care reform. They’re expected to rule in June, but no matter what they decide, health care costs are not going to go down any time soon, as National Journal's Maggie Fox writes.
Poll: Boehner Doesn’t Draw Strong Opinions, but His Ideas Do
The latest findings of the United Technologies/National Journal Congressional Connection Poll show that more than two years into his tenure as House speaker, John Boehner faces a public that is uncertain about who he is but has strong feelings—positive and negative—toward his policy initiatives, as Matthew Cooper writes
Paying for Better Outcomes May Not Improve Care
One of the planks of the 2010 health care law, paying hospitals to improve the quality of care, doesn’t appear to help patients survive any better, as National Journal's Maggie Fox reports.
FCC Official: Cybersecurity Shouldn’t Curtail Privacy
Ensuring cybersecurity doesn’t mean giving up privacy or undermining Internet freedom, a Federal Communications Commission official told a House panel on Wednesday, as National Journal's Josh Smith reports.
Raising Arizona
What does it take to paint a red desert blue? For Democrats hoping to win their first federal races in Arizona in 16 years, the answer lies in getting the state’s electorate to more closely resemble the state’s population. But Democratic dreams of winning the Copper State this year may be more mirage than reality, as Hotline's Reid Wilson reports.
Former Student Janitor Tells Gingrich Job Was ‘Embarrassing’
At a campaign event, a recent Georgetown University graduate told Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich that his proposal to have poor students work as school janitors is "offensive" to him.
Experts on Obama's Energy Push: More Than Words?
Is President Obama's effort in the last several weeks to tout his administration's commitment to energy production and to streamline energy infrastructure all talk--or is it action, too? National Journal's Amy Harder gathers up the experts.
Health Reform Law Protests at Supreme Court End Not With a Bang, but With a Drizzle
The drama outside the Supreme Court this week ended on Wednesday afternoon much as it began -- in the rain, as National Journal's Sarah Mimms reports.
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