“Overhaul” on The Daily Caller

PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — Crucial pieces of a lawsuit challenging the Obama administration’s health care overhaul can go to trial, with a judge ruling Thursday he wants to hear more arguments over whether it’s constitutional to force citizens to buy health insurance. (more)

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — Blaming himself for coolness to his health care overhaul, President Barack Obama is seeking to reintroduce the law to voters who don’t much like or understand it six months after he signed it. (more)

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected a key provision of President Barack Obama’s health care law, sending a clear message of discontent to Washington and Democrats less than 100 days before the midterm elections. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The new health overhaul law is starting to produce savings for Medicare and will eventually add more than a decade of solvency to the program’s trust fund, the Obama administration said in an upbeat report released Monday. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Reveling over a new milestone in his presidency, a triumphant Barack Obama on Wednesday signed into law the most sweeping overhaul of lending and high-finance rules since the Great Depression, adding safeguards for millions of consumers and aiming to restrain Wall Street excesses that could set off a new recession. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Abortion foes have won a round in the first test of how President Barack Obama’s health care law will be applied to the politically charged issue. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the end, it’s only a beginning. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Big changes are in store for the financial world from a government crackdown more than a year in the making. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional negotiators struck a deal Friday on the toughest financial regulations since the Great Depression, aiming to rein in Wall Street excess and tighten rules on everything from simple debit card swipes to the most complex securities. (more)

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — President Barack Obama’s administration on Monday asked a federal judge in Virginia to dismiss the state’s lawsuit alleging Congress overstepped its constitutional bounds with the new health care reform law. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a rare defeat for President Barack Obama, the Senate on Monday called for auto dealers to be excluded from the regulations of a proposed consumer financial protection bureau. (more)

April 29 (Bloomberg) — Senate Republicans abandoned their efforts to block debate over legislation overhauling U.S. financial rules, vowing instead to fight for changes to the bill on issues ranging from consumer protection to derivatives. (more)

As bank reform legislation failed to pass a key test vote in the Senate, Democrats released a deal late Monday they struck amongst themselves over how to regulate the opaque $450 trillion derivatives market. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Declaring themselves short of patience, Democrats set an initial showdown vote for next Monday on legislation to clamp new regulations on the financial industry while Republicans insisted on more bargaining. President Barack Obama admonished Wall Street leaders “to join us instead of fighting us” to prevent a future national financial collapse. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Senate panel approved legislation Wednesday that would limit the ability of Wall Street banks to trade complex financial tools called derivatives. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is urging Senate Democrats to drop a $50 billion bank liquidation fund from a financial regulation bill. The money has become a target of Republicans, who have branded the fund a Wall Street bailout. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Senate leaders laid out a strategy Tuesday to alter or even reject broad changes in financial regulations. They said Democratic proposals would perpetuate bank bailouts, and they accused the Obama administration of exploiting anti-Wall Street sentiment for political purposes. (more)

WASHINGTON — House Democrats, entering the final 48-hour countdown on their yearlong effort to overhaul the health care system, emerged from a caucus meeting on Friday morning amid signs that crucial votes remained in play in both directions. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats prepared for the worst and hoped for the best as the fate of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul hung on the outcome of a special Massachusetts election that was too close to call. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Like a roller-coaster ride on its last twisting turns, President Barack Obama’s campaign to remake health care is barreling into final days of breathless suspense and headlong momentum. (more)