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© Getty Images Via The New York Times's Sheryl Gay Stolberg: It's the 11th anniversary of the signing of ObamaCare, or the Affordable Care Act. The sweeping legislation is still going strong, providing the means for 200,000 Americans to sign up for insurance through the online marketplace earlier this year. http://nyti.ms/3cbxUhw Times sure have changed: I remember when “ObamaCare” was an insult, before former President Obama embraced the term in his reelection campaign. Blast from the past: Here's The Hill's coverage of Obama signing the bill using 22 commemorative pens: http://bit.ly/3cTAVlS That signing ceremony was also where then-Vice President Biden called ObamaCare a "big f---ing deal" on a hot mic, which at the time was also a BFD. Video: https://bit.ly/3cXrrGm Reminder: Former President Trump made some big changes to the Affordable Care Act, including getting rid of the individual mandate to get insurance coverage. And the recently passed $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill also included changes involving subsidies: http://on.wsj.com/3cbMTrO |
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| It’s Tuesday. I’m Alicia Cohn, filling in for Cate, with a quick recap of the morning and what’s coming up. Send comments, story ideas and events for our radar to cmartel@thehill.com — and follow along on Twitter @CateMartel and Facebook. Did someone forward this to you? Want your own copy? Sign up here to receive The Hill's 12:30 Report in your inbox daily: http://bit.ly/2kjMNnn |
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It's time to update internet regulations |
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The internet has changed a lot in the 25 years since lawmakers last passed comprehensive internet regulations. It’s time for an update. See how we’re making progress on key issues and why we support updated regulations to set clear rules for addressing today’s toughest challenges. |
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Painfully close to home for this Colorado girl: |
| Via The Hill’s Mychael Schnell, 10 people are dead, including one police officer, after a gunman entered a supermarket in Boulder, Colo., on Monday. http://bit.ly/3cfBUxM Breaking: The 21-year-old shooting suspect has been charged with 10 counts of murder. https://bit.ly/3lHL8pk President Biden is expected to deliver remarks on the shooting within the hour. Watch: https://bit.ly/3r8VtvK “It's absolutely tragic. It's 10 people going about the day living their lives, not bothering anybody. A police officer who is performing his duties, and with great courage and heroism,” Vice President Harris said this morning. Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) in releasing the names of victims on Tuesday said it “was a simple run for milk and eggs” turned “painful.” 
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| IS THIS ‘GETTING BACK TO NORMAL’?: |
| Via The New York Times’s Neil Vigdor, Will Wright and Azi Paybarah, the Boulder shooting revived old gun control debates: http://nyti.ms/3sig16g |
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Scientists, slow your roll: |
| Via The Hill’s Justine Coleman, The Data and Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB), an independent group of experts, said Tuesday “it was concerned ... AstraZeneca may have included outdated information ... which may have provided an incomplete view of the efficacy data” of its coronavirus vaccine: http://bit.ly/3f7EnMg One day ago: AstraZeneca released a U.S. study Monday saying its vaccine was 79 percent effective in preventing symptomatic COVID-19. What does this mean? Unclear, but the company is likely hoping it doesn’t delay their FDA authorization for use in the U.S. AstraZeneca pledged to engage with DSMB "to share our primary analysis with the most up to date efficacy data … within 48 hours." Anthony Fauci told “Good Morning America” it was a “harsh note” from DSMB and AstraZeneca needs to "straighten it out.” Watch: https://bit.ly/3r9C4uN |
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Still waiting on your stimulus check?: |
| Via The Hill’s John Bowden, House Democrats want to know why some $1,400 direct payments have been delayed: http://bit.ly/3tNGKIl The problem: While the IRS has already sent out 90 million direct payments since President Biden signed a $1.9 trillion relief bill on March 11, large groups of people including some veterans and Social Security beneficiaries are still waiting. Via The Hill’s Sylvan Lane: The IRS said a new batch of checks should be hitting Americans’ bank accounts on Wednesday, but did not provide an update on when recipients of Social Security retirement or disability payments, railroad pensions and veterans benefits would receive their latest stimulus payments. http://bit.ly/3cbTWAM |
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| IT SEEMS DEMOCRATS ARE GETTING UPSET BY ‘CANCEL CULTURE’ NOW, TOO: |
| MSNBC’s Morning Joe discussed the topic Tuesday morning after Bill Maher came out against it last weekend on HBO’s “Real Time With Bill Maher.” Video: http://on.msnbc.com/3tNOABS An opportunity for bipartisanship?: This comes a couple weeks after House Judiciary Committee ranking member Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) demanded a hearing on "cancel culture," calling it “censorship.” |
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| Via The Hill’s Brett Samuels, The Biden administration is preparing a $3 trillion spending proposal on infrastructure and other domestic priorities such as child tax credits as their next agenda item. Expect a legislative fight over how to pay for the bill: http://bit.ly/3f6vd2F |
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| I KEEP DANCING ON MY OWN: |
| Via NPR's Maria Liasson, Biden's infrastructure plan will test his bipartisan campaign promises: http://n.pr/3lKblnb |
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Internet regulations need an update |
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It’s been 25 years since comprehensive internet regulations passed. But a lot has changed since 1996. See how we’re taking action and why we support updated regulations to address today’s challenges — protecting privacy, fighting misinformation, reforming Section 230, and more. |
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| LATEST WITH THE CORONAVIRUS | |
Let’s avoid a ‘sick girl summer,’ please: |
| Via The Hill’s Nathaniel Weixel: “Experts say the U.S. is in a race between vaccines and variants, and by reopening too fast and ignoring public health recommendations, the country may be at risk of losing and bringing on another wave of infections just like the winter.” http://bit.ly/2OXnRDW |
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| CASE NUMBERS: |
| Coronavirus cases in the U.S.: 29,870,995 U.S. death toll: 543,023 Breakdown of the numbers: https://cnn.it/2UAgW3y |
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| VACCINATION NUMBERS: |
| Total number of vaccinations administered in the U.S.: 127 million shots have been given. Seven-day average of doses administered: An average of 2.49 million doses For context: The U.S. population is roughly 331 million. Breakdown of the numbers: https://bloom.bg/3iVTPLH |
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Soon the only thing still the same from my childhood will be push-pops: |
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| The Senate is in. The House is in for committee business only. President Biden and Vice President Harris are in Washington, with Biden traveling to Ohio in the afternoon. 9:10 a.m. ET: Vice President Harris ceremonially swore in Ambassador William Burns as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. 10 a.m. in GMT+1: Secretary Blinken participated in a moderated conversation with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, in Brussels, Belgium. 5:25 p.m. EDT: Vice President Harris will ceremonially swear in Marty Walsh as Secretary of Labor. |
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| 12:30 p.m. ET: President Biden delivers remarks on the shooting in Colorado. https://bit.ly/3r8VtvK 1:30 p.m. ET: The Hill hosts an event “Climate Under Threat” featuring Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-NY), UN Environment Programme ED Inger Andersen, Atlantic Council's Randolph Bell and more discussing the environment, energy and global cooperation. RSVP: https://bit.ly/317kCwn 3:15 p.m. ET: Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer are marking the 11th Anniversary of the Affordable Care Act with a virtual event. Sign up: http://bit.ly/3risVQl 4:50 p.m. ET: President Biden delivers remarks at the James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute in Columbus, Ohio. Livestream: http://bit.ly/31arnh2 |
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| NOW FOR THE FUN STUFF...: | |
| Today is National Chips and Dip Day. |
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| And this is funnier than the #SnyderCut: 
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| Finally, to brighten your Tuesday afternoon, here’s a dog with an automatic rewind function: https://bit.ly/3eWFZbN |
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