Speaker Boehner says critics of the agreement — which would fund the government through fall 2015 — opposed it before knowing what was in it.
GOVBEAT | Crafting the bipartisan deal may turn out to be the easy part. Selling it to a House Republican caucus could be the real challenge.
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About 365,000 people chose health plans in the first two months of enrollment as flaws were fixed.
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The group’s purge of the GOP has begun to subside.
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The court ruled as constitutional a colonial-era law that says gay sex is punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
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