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The Department of Health and Human Services’ recently signed $17.6 million dollar contract with public relations firm Porter-Novelli, to tout the Affordable Care Act, is coming under congressional scrutiny. (more)

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded a $5.9 million grant to a University of Chicago Medical Center program run by one of President Barack Obama’s closest friends. (more)

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa has requested documents from the Department of Health and Human Services regarding money from Obamacare’s Prevention and Public Health Fund going toward lobbying efforts. (more)

The Obama administration moved forward Friday afternoon in implementing the controversial contraception rule, saying that student health insurance plans must cover preventive services. (more)

Vice President Joe Biden seemed to go off message Thursday by announcing the White House’s controversial effort to regulate religious communities “got screwed up in the first iteration.” (more)

The White House isn’t giving up on plans to force cigarette companies to print gruesome images on their own cigarette packets, even after a D.C.-based federal judge shot down the plan as an “impermissible expropriation of a company’s advertising space for government advocacy.” (more)

More than 2,500 evangelical and ministry leaders from a range of denominations have signed a letter to President Obama voicing their opposition to the administration’s new mandate requiring that all health insurance plans contain contraceptive coverage. (more)

Following a decision by the Department of Health and Human Services to mandate health insurance coverage of contraception and abortion-inducing medications, researchers for Human Life International told The Daily Caller that they have uncovered evidence of bias in the recommendation process. (more)

On his Monday show, radio talk show host Mark Levin, author of “Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America,” said “what would happen if we were living in a functioning constitutional republic is articles of impeachment would be drawn up against the secretary of [Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius]” over a slew of charges, most recently the contraception mandate for Catholic institutions. (more)

The Catholic media network started thirty years ago by Mother Angelica, a cloistered nun, is now taking legal action against Obama administration officials over the new mandate requiring health insurance plans, including those offered by religious organizations, to cover contraceptives. (more)

White House spokesman Jay Carney today hinted that the Obama administration might compromise on its Jan. 20 directive requiring religious groups to comply with federal sex-related health insurance mandates. (more)

The Obama administration’s top health care administrator invoked Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in justifying the landmark health care reform law Friday. (more)

Labor unions continued to receive the overwhelming majority of waivers from the president’s health care reform law since the Obama administration tightened application rules last summer. (more)

North Carolina Republican Rep. Virginia Foxx said on the House floor Thursday that the federal government will be “shelling out” $200 million to cover the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Service’s “incompetence” and “inability” to keep “a lid” on costs for an upgrade to their Medicaid billing system. (more)

At a Thursday House oversight committee hearing on the administration’s decision not to renew funding to United States Conference of Catholic Bishops to help victims of human sex trafficking, the committee’s Republicans clashed with Health and Human Services official George Sheldon. (more)

Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat, has asked The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to review the Obama administration’s award of a $443 million sole-source contract to a company owned by a major Democratic donor. (more)

President Barack Obama flew to swing-state Pennsylvania on Tuesday to declare that Republican intransigence in Congress has prompted him to implement a reform of the Head Start program. (more)

The Defense of Marriage Act has traditionally been criticized as discriminatory toward same-sex couples. But a prominent ethics watchdog said Thursday that the law is, in fact, unconstitutional because it unreasonably exempts same-sex couples from complying with various ethics laws. (more)

Privacy by convenience? Kansas Republican Rep. Tim Huelskamp pointed out what he says is Kathleen Sebelius’s double standard on patient privacy: one standard for abortion records while she was governor of Kansas, and another for Obamacare as Secretary of Health and Human Services. (more)

The Obama administration adamantly denies it, but rumors are circulating in Washington that his Department of Health and Human Services is already collecting Americans’ private health information, or at least preparing itself to do so. (more)