Administration, House File Competing Motions In ACA Funding Spat

(December 4, 2015, 3:28 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The administration and House of Representatives squared off against each other before the District of Columbia federal court on Dec. 2 with competing motions for summary judgment in a case challenging whether the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) authorizes funding of integrated tax credits. The House argues that the administration funded the program without the consent of Congress, while the administration argues that the House’s reading of the ACA creates “a cascading series of nonsensical and undesirable results” with “bizarre consequences” (United States House of Representatives v. Sylvia Mathews Burwell, et al., No. 14-1967, D. D.C.)....