Sixth District Rep. Michele Bachmann joined 12 U.S. Senators and 61 other representatives in sending a letter to all 50 governors urging them to oppose the implementation of the state health care exchanges mandated under the Affordable Care Act. The representatives who oppose the state health care exchanges in “Obamacare” say it could cost businesses up to $3,000 per employee. “While Republicans in Congress will continue to push for a full repeal of Obamacare, the states can take immediate action to reject these exchanges that will increase health care costs and add more layers of …

In March 2010, President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law. On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule on the legality of what is commonly called “Obamacare.” From the onset, Sixth District Congresswoman Michele Bachmann has been an advocate of repealing the President’s health care overhaul. In fact, just hours after passage two years ago, Bachmann introduced the first bill in the House of Representatives to repeal Obamacare in full. On Monday, Bachmann called the Affordable Care Act the most unpopular law in recent history and said she is …

Congresswoman Michele Bachmann has sent a letter to the Swiss Consulate requesting withdrawal of her dual Swiss citizenship. Yesterday, various media reported that Bachmann was granted dual citizenship with Switzerland. A POLITICO story focused on the fact that Bachmann is now eligible to run for office in Switzerland, while the Huffington Post piece pointed out her opposition to President Obama’s health care reform and the fact that the small European nation has nearly universal health care. Bachmann responded to those reports by saying it was a “non-story.” "I automatically became a dual …

Sixth District Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, issued the following statement on the one-year anniversary of the death of Osama bin Laden: “One year ago today, a nearly 10-year mission ended with the assassination of Osama bin Laden. The world breathed a collective sigh of relief, and while we will never forget the devastation and grief caused by the attacks on September 11, there seemed to be a shared optimism that his death would bring closure in Afghanistan. One year later, the President’s mission in the war-torn …

Sixth-district congresswoman Michele Bachmann will be seeking a fourth term in the U.S. House of Representatives though it’s still unclear how redistricting will affect congressional boundaries.Bachmann is the only major former candidate for the Republican nomination who has not yet endorsed either Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich."I am on board the team, put it that way, no matter who our nominee will be, I am on the team because I intend to make sure that Barack Obama is a one-term president and whoever our nominee is, I am for them," she said Sunday on Face the Nation.Bachmann was named as a …

Sixth-district congresswoman Michele Bachmann made her first public appearance in Minnesota since withdrawing from the Republican presidential race, speaking Sunday at an anti-abortion protest in St. Paul. Bachmann told the hundreds of protesters that Roe v. Wade should be repealed within the next year. "Here on our watch we will stand, we will stand for life, we will never forget, we will never give up, and next year we will gather in a day of celebration when we have finally ended abortion in this all important election," Bachmann said. "Join me this year. Choose life." On the morning of …

Editor's Note: With Bachmann's presidential campaign ended, the Bachmann Beat will continue to run daily through the end of the week before switching to a Monday-only schedule.

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Just days before the Iowa caucus, sixth-district congresswoman and presidential candidate Michele Bachmann’s campaign was dealt a pair of blows as a pro-Bachmann Super PAC defected to rival Mitt Romney and Iowa campaign chair, Kent Sorensen, switched allegiances to Ron Paul.Citizens for a Working America, a political action committee with deep pockets, had announced it would be supporting Bachmann earlier in the year. But on Christmas Eve, the group made a $475,000 ad buy supporting Romney, The Daily reported on Wednesday.Norm Cummings, an official with the Super PAC, told Politico that the …

By the end of the day today, sixth-district congresswoman and presidential candidate Michele Bachmann will have visited 96 of Iowa’s 99 counties in her final push before the first nominating contest on Jan. 3.At campaign stops Tuesday, she told crowds that she is the only candidate who will “dismantle” the nation’s “system of socialism.”“We are at a time in our country when we are full-on embracing socialism,” she said during a stop in Glenwood. “Now I know it’s hard to imagine, but there are even Republicans that want to be socialists in Washington D.C. … I have stood up against them as well…

Sixth-district congresswoman and presidential candidate Michele Bachmann is more than half way through her 99-county tour of Iowa in advance of the Jan. 3 nominating contest. “Iowa is a word-of-mouth state,” she told a radio reporter. “It’s a very personal, person-to-person state and I think the very best way to campaign is positively, on the ground, going from city to city, meeting as many people as we can.” Wednesday afternoon, during a stop in Henry County, she spoke about gun rights and said that the AR15—a civilian version of the M16 assault rifle—is her favorite firearm. “I learned how …

After sixth-district congresswoman and presidential candidate Michele Bachmann announced she would be skipping the candidate debate hosted by business mogul Donald Trump, Trump said he’s considering canceling the debate and called Bachmann disloyal.“She came up to see me four times. She would call me and ask me for advice,” Trump told Fox Business Network. “She said if she wins, she would like to think about me for the vice presidency. Most importantly, I did a two-hour phone call for her with her people. ... And after all that, she announced she was not going to do the debate. It’s called …

Sixth-district congresswoman and presidential candidate Michele Bachmann escalated her rhetoric against her GOP rivals Monday, insinuating that former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney was a “frugal socialist.”    Here’s a quote from her speech to the Family Research Council in Washington: "The reason President Obama and some Republicans can get behind socialized medicine is because they share the same core political philosophy about the purpose of government. … We cannot preserve liberty for ourselves and our posterity if the choice in next November is between a frugal socialist and an out-…

The Star Tribune reports that sixth-district congresswoman and presidential candidate Michele Bachmann is returning to Minnesota for a fundraiser Oct. 27. Bachmann plans to hold a town hall event, followed by a reception and dinner at the Minneapolis Hilton. Her campaign released a YouTube video inviting supporters to attend. It will mark her first campaign appearance in the state since Sept. 1. Bachmann is in San Francisco today, where she'll deliver an address entitled "The Revival of American Competitiveness." Meanwhile, the fallout continues from Tuesday night's CNN presidential debate in…

Sixth-district congresswoman and Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann called for a return to Reagan-era tax policies yesterday. "I want to adopt the Reagan tax plan. It brought the economic miracle of the 1980s. Why not go with what works? You can't argue with success," Bachmann said at a campaign stop in Iowa. (Audio) There's a problem. Bachmann, who generally supports lower taxes and smaller government, might have been unaware that federal taxes were actually much higher under President Reagan. The Des Moines Register explains: For most of Reagan’s two terms in office, the …

Sixth-district congresswoman Michele Bachmann spoke at Liberty University in Virginia yesterday, where she told the crowd of conservative Christian students that Christian values are intertwined with American democratic institutions. During her address, Bachmann made a point of repeating the phrase that has become the new slogan of her presidential campaign: "don't settle." MPR says Bachmann is trying to position herself as the one true conservative in the 2012 race, and is appealing to evangelicals not to settle for a candidate who doesn't represent their values. (Bonus: Here's a video clip …

Sixth-district congresswoman and Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann participated in a joint Fox News-Google presidential debate last night. You can watch the entire event, including pre-debate and post-debate analysis, on Fox News Live. You can also read the full trancript. During the debate, Bachmann addressed more than a half-dozen issues, from education to the economy. Below is a sampling of what she said. On taxation: "You should get to keep every dollar that you earn. That's your money; that's not the government's money ... Obviously, we have to give money back to the …

Sixth-district congresswoman and presidential candidate Michele Bachmann is campaigning in Iowa today, where she will tour a pair of factories and host "employee roundtable" discussions. MPR reports some prominent Iowa conservatives want Bachmann to ditch her highly-coreographed campaign style and "get her shoes dirty." Otherwise, they say she risks losing ground to rival Rick Perry in the state. On Friday, Bachmann appeared on The Tonight Show, where she was interviewed by host Jay Leno, who asked about a number of her recent campaign controversies. (Watch Part 1 and Part 2 of the interview…

Sixth-district congresswoman and Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann is in California today, where she will address the state Republican Party's convention in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, Bachmann's vaccine brouhaha is showing no signs of letting up. During a stop in San Rafael, she defended her controversial remarks regarding alleged dangers posed by the HPV vaccine Gardasil, and offered no apologies to those who say her comments might serve to discourage parents from having their children vaccinated. In a scathing opinion piece, a Salon writer castigates Bachmann for her remarks, …

Sixth-district congresswoman Michele Bachmann will take the stage tonight in Tampa, Fla., for a Republican presidential debate hosted by CNN and the Tea Party Express. It will be Bachmann's fourth debate as a presidential candidate. Bachmann is looking to distinguish herself at tonight's event and move past last week's disappointing showing in California, The New York Times reports. Bachmann's campaign could use a boost; according to the latest poll numbers, her support among likely Republican voters now sits at just 4 percent, putting her in seventh place overall among the GOP contenders. …