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  Why repealing Obamacare is a horrible idea

Cancer patient: ‘I’m the model case for why Obamacare’ is needed

As soon as Dan Seco turned 26, he lost his health care, and as a freelance writer he didn't have the money to buy private health insurance. He was later diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. "I think I'm the model case for why Obamacare needs to pass and what it can do to help people in my situation, Full story

Boehner needs no obstruction primer from Heritage Action

  Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-New York, joins Martin Bashir to discuss why Speaker John Boehner would need a primer on obstruction from 501(c)4 Heritage Action – when some call him a champion obstructer himself – and then both discuss her work to stop the rise of sexual assaults in the military.

GOP obstructionism: lather, rinse, repeal

  Fresh off the heels of his 37th vote to repeal Obamacare, Speaker Boehner says repealing Obamacare is his key focus moving forward, and that means more time wasted.

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U.S. House votes to repeal Obamacare in 37th symbolic act

O’Donnell reminds politicians of the real IRS scandal

NBC Politics: Boehner on IRS controversy: 'Who's going to jail?'

Local reaction to IRS tax scandal

House GOP pumped to vote to repeal Obamacare–for the 37th time

Bipartisan Group of Lawmakers Question Justice Department over AP Phone Records Grab

NBC Politics: Boehner presses Obama, White House for Benghazi emails

Battle over immigration bill starts in Congress

GOP report faults State Dept. on Libya security

Rangel files suit to overturn censure

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  GOP strategy continues to be attack, attack, attack

Republican strategist John Feehery and the Center for American Progress’ Neera Tanden talk about the right-wing’s cry to Republican leaders to focus on the scandals for as long as possible in order to derail the president’s momentum in his second term.

  Rewriting Washington on the I.R.S.

Speaker John Boehner wants to know who's going to jail over the "scandal" at the I.R.S., and MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell called that the "stupidest thing" the Speaker's ever said. He has more in his latest Rewrite.

  Conservative editors warn Republicans

The editors of the conservative National Review warn Republicans that scandal is not an agenda. MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell discusses Republican scandal politics with MSNBC's Joy Reid.

  GOP deaf to positive signs for the economy?

Jared Bernstein, a senior fellow at the Center on Budget Policies and Priorities, and Time Magazine’s Michael Scherer discuss how Republicans conveniently neglect positive economic indicators they have sworn are their No. 1 priority.

  All the legislation that got sidelined by scandal

The Cycle hosts spin on what Congress has been working on that got sidetracked by the week's scandals.

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US Vice President Joseph R. Biden and Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) applaud as President of South Korea Park Geun-hye bows after addressing a joint meeting of Congress on Capitol Hill May 8, 2013 in Washington, DC. Park proposed an international park on the tense border with North Korea

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REFILE FOR QUALITYSouth Korea's President Park Geun-hye is applauded by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) as she addresses a joint meeting of Congress in Washington May 8, 2013. REUTERS/Gary Cameron (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS)