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Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, speaks at the Tea Party Patriots' fifth anniversary celebration Thursday at the Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Sen. Barbara Boxer, California Democrat, touted the health care law and said this week that payments to Medicare Advantage needed to be reined in.
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Sen. Orrin Hatch, Utah Republican, said "this isn't right and has to be stopped" as America's Health Insurance Plans reported that Obamacare cuts would trim payment rates to Medicare Advantage plans by nearly 6 percent in 2015. (Associated Press photographs)
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Associated Press Secretary of State John Kerry speaks about the annual State Department Human Rights report, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014, at the State Department in Washington. The U.S. says a chemical weapons attack in Syria that the Obama administration says killed more than 1,000 people was the world's worst human rights violation of 2013. An annual State Department report released Thursday also highlights government crackdowns on peaceful protests in Ukraine and Russia's refusal to punish human-rights abusers.
