Mar 11th, 2010 · President Obama met Thursday with Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) who are trying to craft a bipartisan immigration bill. The meeting comes less than two weeks before immigrant rights activists are planning a march on Washington to draw attention to their cause, but so far the White House has been reluctant to put the issue on the front burner.
Mar 11th, 2010 · President Obama met Thursday with senators who are trying to craft a bipartisan immigration bill. The meeting comes less than two weeks before immigrant rights activists are planning a march on Washington to draw attention to their cause, but so far the White House has been reluctant to put the issue on the front burner.
Mar 11th, 2010 · President Obama says the time for talk is over and that Congress needs to take an up-or-down vote on the health care overhaul plan. He traveled to St. Charles, Mo., to sell his plan Wednesday. It was his second trip outside of Washington this week to try to win congressional support for the plan. He also helped raise some cash for Democrats made vulnerable by the long legislative fight.
Mar 11th, 2010 · Senate Democrats and Republicans are trying to work out differences over how to overhaul financial regulations following the financial crisis. One of the big sticking points is the proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency. Democrats, including President Obama, want a separate and independent agency. Republicans want it to be part of an existing agency but Democrats say that's been tried and didn't work.
Mar 11th, 2010 · President Obama says the time for talk is over and that Congress needs to take an up-or-down vote on the health care overhaul plan. He traveled to St. Charles, Mo., to sell his plan Wednesday. It was his second trip outside of Washington this week to try to win congressional support for the plan. He also helped raise some cash for Democrats made vulnerable by the long legislative fight.
Mar 10th, 2010 · If President Obama's proposal to apply a Medicare levy to investment income had been in place in 2008, the Obamas would have paid roughly $75,000 more in taxes that year.
Mar 10th, 2010 · President Obama's criticism of a recent high court decision on campaign spending, delivered during his State of the Union address, has drawn a rebuke from the chief justice. Speaking to a group of law students, Roberts said officials are entitled to criticize the court's decisions, but he questioned the setting Obama chose, and the "decorum" of the House and Senate.
Mar 9th, 2010 · Recent news articles about White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel have portrayed him alternately as someone whose advice President Obama should take more or as the man responsible for recent missteps on health care and Guantanamo Bay. John Dickerson, chief political correspondent for Slate.com, offers his insight.