Open Enrollment for Health Insurance Starts Today. Get Informed and Get Covered (Audio Included)

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Open enrollment for health insurance begins today and runs through December 15th. Following years of empty campaign promises and symbolic repeal votes, Obamacare is still the law of the land. That means the individual mandate to purchase health insurance remains. It’s important to get signed up in this time frame or risk being penalized under […]

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Hoeven Sides With Wall Street, Votes Against Consumers

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Tuesday night, Senate Republicans picked Equifax, Wells Fargo, and other Wall Street companies over working families. North Dakota’s Senator John Hoeven joined the majority to make it harder for ordinary people to band together against the abuses by big banks and credit companies. The 50-50 tie in the Senate was broken by Vice President Mike […]

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U.S. Senator Al Franken Wants to Boost Consumer Protection Following Equifax Breach (AUDIO)

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The former CEO of Equifax, Richard Smith, had a tough week. Smith faced Congress to explain how in the world 145 million Americans’ personal information was compromised on his watch. His answer, blame it on one guy who was supposed to update software. U.S. Senator Al Franken was unimpressed with the answer and joined me […]

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Funding for Children’s Health Insurance Program Expired on September 30th. Congress to Blame.

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In a Friday afternoon “news dump” Tom Price resigned from leading The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The resignation came after mounting public outrage at Price’s wasting of tax dollars on private jets. The next day, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) funding expired leaving an estimated nine million children in limbo. Another […]

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FISA Warrant Means Agents are Trying to Catch Spies – Former U.S. Attorney

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Former U.S. Attorney for North Dakota, Tim Purdon, joined me on “Afternoons Live” to break down the bombshell report that Donald Trump’s former campaign chair, Paul Manafort, was under surveillance. According to multiple sources, Paul Manafort was the subject of a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant in 2014 and again in the later part […]

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