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Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the individual health-insurance mandate that is at the heart of President Obama’s landmark health-care law, saying the mandate is permissible under Congress’s taxing authority.

  1. If non-staffers ever want to know what answering the phones in a Hill office is like, just watch C-SPAN's morning call in show.
  2. RT @TheStalwart: It's freakishly quiet on Manhattan streets right now. Like Vanilla Sky quiet. Everyone inside refreshing SCOTUSblog.
  3. Decision Day on Obamacare: What Supreme Court May Do - cnb.cx/MY5mSw
  4. U.S. SUPREME COURT SAYS UPHOLDS HEALTH CARE MANDATE
  5. US Supreme Court upholds Obama law's requirement that most Americans have health insurance - @AP
  6. CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS SAYS MANDATE IS NOT A VALID EXERCISE OF CONGRESS' POWER UNDER COMMERCE CLAUSE AND NECESSARY AND PROPER CLAUSE
  7. RT @ap: BREAKING: Supreme Court upholds Obama law's requirement that most Americans have health insurance.
  8. FOUR JUSTICES DISSENT, SAYING THE PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT GOES BEYOND CONGRESSIONAL POWERS UNDER CONSTITUTION
  9. RT @vgmac: CNN your TV headline is wrong. Individual mandate is not struck down
  10. According to SCOTUS blog: "the mandate is constitutional. Chief Justice Roberts joins the left of the Court."
  11. ROBERTS, JOINED BY TWO JUSTICES, SAYS MEDICAID EXPANSION VIOLATES CONSTITUTION
  12. More on what it means for Court to find the mandate is a tax. See #4 here: wapo.st/Oyjh8P
  13. CNN would be better off just going to background music at this point.
  14. Crowd outside SCOTUS is confused. Both sides cheering.
  15. REUTERS: DISSENTING JUSTICES INCLUDE SCALIA, KENNEDY, THOMAS, ALITO
  16. More: Chief Justice John Roberts says health care mandate may be upheld as within US Congress' taxing power - @Reuters

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