On the Hill: The week in Washington
Steve Scalise's health law confrontation
Just before Congress began its summer recess, there was another confrontation between Rep. Steve Scalise, R-Jefferson, and a member of the Obama administration. And once again that conflict was over the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which Scalise and other GOP critics refer to as ObamaCare.
The setting was a House Energy Committee hearing featuring Marilyn Tavenner, administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. She testified that she's heard of only "isolated incidents" of employers cutting back hours so that they wouldn't have to provide health coverage.