The disastrous launch of healthcare.gov, the federal health insurance exchange, prompted ABC News correspondent Jonathan Karl to ask what passes for a tough question at a White House news conference: “Given all the problems that we’ve seen with people trying to enroll in this program, is the White House going to be delaying the (individual) mandate? If the website’s not fixed, will people still have to pay the fine?”
Nevada’s public records law requires the release of information for very good reason: If government employees are given the slightest bit of discretion in determining what taxpayers are allowed to see, they’ll be too happy to deny access to that information.
Remember all the talk in Washington about the importance of a “clean” bill to fund the federal government and raise the debt ceiling? There’s no such thing. Lawmakers love using last-minute legislation to leverage pork and new spending money.
