The Affordable Care Act, formally the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and informally known as Obamacare, is a landmark U.S. federal statute enacted by the 111th United States Congress and s
President Obama and White House staff react to the House of Representatives passing the bill on March 21, 2010.
Jim Clyburn and Nancy Pelosi celebrate after the House passes the amended bill on March 21.
President Obama signs the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on March 23, 2010.
The Tea Party movement was an American right-wing, fiscally conservative political movement within the Republican Party that began in 2007, catapulted into the mainstream by Congressman Ron Paul's 200
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…During the August 2009 summer congressional recess, many members went back to their districts and held town hall meetings on the proposals. The nascent Tea Party movement organized protests and many conservative groups and individuals attended the meetings to oppose the proposed reforms. Threats were made against members…
Tea Party protesters on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol and the National Mall at the Taxpayer March on Washington on September 12, 2009
The iconic 1846 lithograph by Nathaniel Currier, The Destruction of Tea at Boston Harbor. The phrase Boston Tea Party had not yet become standard, and contrary to Currier's depiction, few of the men dumping the tea were actually disguised as Native Americans.
A Tea Party protest in Dallas, April 2009
Michele Bachmann, Republican in Congress from Minnesota, 2007 to 2015