Page 41 - State Levels News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

That we're out of the -- out of trouble. >> so you underscore there still these economic disparities, but then you look at the year, and there was so much concern over the government shutdown, the partisan gridlock over the national debt limit, and there was a feeling that all of that will kind of stop the momentum. does this mean that it didn't? >> well, it means that the momentum might have been stronger if there hadn't been all of the gridlock. and indeed, you know, the government, the federal government at least, the state governments are starting to grow a little bit -- the federal govern...

Consumers, new people on to the market, will look at these policies and say it's a much better deal to go on the exchange, and that they will. >> democratic congresswoman carol shea-porter of new hampshire, thanks for making time for me. joining me dnc communications director and rnc communications director. i want to start with you, shaun, asking kelly ayotte two time what the gop was offering up in place of obama care. she had no answer. and rick santorum agreed that republicans need to bring something to the table. he appeared on "morning joe." take a look. >> saying no is not enough. absol...

Majority of counselors down at city hall are left wing tax and spend socialists. >> that defiance is a hallmark of ford's persona. some people say approaches delusional. particularly when ford told me that only does he expect to survive this and win re-election but one day wants to hold the highest office in the land, prime minister. bret? >> that would be something. john, thank you. voters in albuquerque, new mexico, will decide tomorrow if theirs will be the first city in the u.s. to outlaw abortions after 20 weeks. 13 states had done so already. but this believed to be the first such refe...

The court ruling mandating equal access to stuff like that happened in june 26. by september 3rd, the entire defense department was in compliance with that court ruling, and everybody was being treated equally. except, except for some states that had anti-gay marriage laws still on the books at the state level, who decided that they would not comply with this federal ruling and this federal direction from the defense department. governors and national guard generals in these states are refusing to comply. texas, indiana, georgia, florida, mississippi, louisiana, oklahoma, south carolina, west ...

As "the new york times" noted this week, the applications for i.d. cards are federal form processed by federal employees on a federal computer system. but in these nine states, they're saying, states' rights. they're saying because they have anti-gay laws at the state levels, they will not process service members' applications equally. they are defying federal law so they can keep discriminating against some members of the national guard, against the wishes of the u.s. military. tonight, secretary of defense chuck hagel, just moments ago, actually, a few blocks from here, he has just given a r...