States reveal SHOCKING health care cost spikes under Republican plan: report

The Republican controlled House of Representatives announced today that they will take a fifth straight week of previously unplanned vacation next week. Now, to be clear, there is nothing about the government shutdown that requires Congress to be out of session. They're supposed to be in session, but for a fifth straight week, they are calling in sick, cancelling class, refusing to convene the House, and perhaps not incidentally, refusing to swear in the new member of Congress from Arizona, Adalita Grihalva ...