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By Dean Clancy on May 15, 2012

Has Harry Reid gone mad?! Senate to vote on a budget this week!

What's that you say?! The Senate is going to vote on a budget? Are you sure???

Toomey Paul Lee

Yup. It's true. After 1,112 days of not passing a budget, Senate Democrats have agreed to vote on several competing plans to stop the debt, balance the budget, and avert the coming Debt Collapse.

By Dean Clancy on May 15, 2012

Report Card: Rand Paul "Tea Party Budget" = Best in Class

To help Senators and activists prepare for this week's Senate votes on competing budget plans, FreedomWorks has prepared this handy cheat sheet. 

Budget Report Card 5/15

By Dean Clancy on May 10, 2012

How to Beat ObamaCare, Part I, with Max Pappas & Dean Clancy

"This will be the biggest case in 50 years. The stakes could not be higher."

Clancy Pappas

Today my friend and colleague Max Pappas and I took out half an hour to stop and educate activists around the country and answer their questions about the historic ObamaCare lawsuit.

By Dean Clancy on May 06, 2012

ObamaCare Repeal Pledge: Mourdock signs, Lugar refuses

Tea party activists around the country have asked us whether any of the current Indiana Republican candidates for U.S. Senate have not signed the ObamaCare Repeal Pledge?

Lugar Mourdock

The answer:

By Dean Clancy on April 21, 2012

Health Policy Experts

Fellow activists and bloggers:

Here's a handy list of experts and resources on ObamaCare and health policy.

Updated: May 6, 2012

Repeal Coalition / Tea Party Politics & Strategy

By Dean Clancy on April 18, 2012

Forbes: The Tea Party Plan for Replacing ObamaCare

Forbes magazine has a great new article: "The Tea Party's Plan for Replacing ObamaCare."

In it, the magazine's health policy guru Avik Roy reviews the new, FreedomWorks-endorsed Patient OPTION Act (H.R. 4224) authored by Congressman Paul Broun of Georgia.

By Dean Clancy on April 10, 2012

FreedomRadio: What should -- and shouldn't -- replace the Democrats' health mandate

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If the Supreme Court strikes down the individual mandate, what next?

My prediction is the mandate could very easily rise from the grave in a new form, namely, the "conservative" idea of giving everybody a new universal health care tax credit, coupled with a policy called "auto-enrollment."

I call it a soft mandate, and it’s arguably as bad as the original.

By Dean Clancy on March 30, 2012

FreedomRadio: "ObamaCare is doomed"

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ObamaCare is doomed. 

I'm sticking my neck out here, but I think it's the most likely outcome, following last week's Supreme Court oral arguments in the historic ObamaCare lawsuit. 

By Dean Clancy on March 30, 2012

FreedomRadio: Dean Clancy on this Week's House Budget Votes

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Yesterday, the House passed Paul Ryan's ten-year budget plan on mostly party lines while rejecting President Obama's budget unanimously. In my audio update this morning, I discuss the votes and give a brief look at the state of the national budget debate.