WASHINGTON – Congress opened for battle over the Affordable Care Act on Wednesday as Republicans pushed immediately forward to repeal the health care law and President Obama made a rare trip to Capitol Hill to defend it. The bitterness that …
That first big step on the young senator’s unlikely path to the White House was fueled by an army of campaign volunteers, which Obama later called one of his proudest legacies. “That’s what America needs right now,” Obama told campaign workers a year …
The outcome of the 2016 election shocked and worried Democrats across the country. Unfortunately for them … Senate Democrats, armed with the filibuster, are the last line of defense against incoming President Donald Trump and the congressional …
Federal authorities, keenly aware of the legalization trend, have taken a hands-off approach during the Obama administration to the prosecution of marijuana cases in states that have passed medical marijuana laws.
On the other hand, Obama might have catalyzed a conviction already forming in the American mind, but in any case he leaves a nation that now believes public policy should enable everyone to have access to insurance.
Will Donald Trump deprive President Obama of what we have come to think of as a normal post-presidency, the relatively serene life of reflection, writing, philanthropy and high-minded speeches to friendly audiences?
President Obama, the other day, addressed some of the charming creakiness that the Founders left for their descendants, such as the compromise that gives equal senatorial representation to California, with thirty-eight million people, and to Wyoming …
It was the second time the Republican-dominated chamber took up legislation blocking “midnight rules,” those rolled out at the close of a president’s term. But the previous bill, introduced in November, had faced a certain veto from President Barack …
House Republicans, on the verge of a Washington takeover as the new Congress convened Tuesday, couldn’t stop themselves from trying to dilute the power of a despised ethics watchdog as their first order of business.
Before the election, President Obama campaigned for Hillary Clinton by reciting the many achievements of his administration: economic recovery, rebuilt auto industry, 15 million new jobs, less foreign oil, cheap gas, more clean energy, fewer troops …
I understand, too, that Obama actually boasts higher approval ratings than the incoming president (who, just by the way, kneels before any kind of approval rating, whether from Nielsen or Gallup, as if he were an Aztec and it were the sun …
Vice President Joe Biden issued an existential call to get more Democrats in Congress on Wednesday evening, telling roughly 120 members and many donors that “the country needs you as much now as it has since … maybe … The question, Biden said, is …
A solemn President Obama, in remarks directed at least partially at his successor, urged the U.S. military and the country on Wednesday never to abandon its “core principles” as it fights the nation’s wars.
WASHINGTON – Tom Perriello, the former congressman from Virginia, is making a surprise entry into his state’s governor’s race, disrupting Democrats‘ well-laid plans in what promises to be the most-watched election in the country this year. Mr …
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday essentially killed any notion of a special committee to investigate Russia’s possible role in cyberhacks of the DNC as the nation’s top intelligence leaders prepared to testify on Capitol Hill for the …
Vice President Joe Biden is developing a partnership with the University of Delaware that will focus on economic and domestic policy, a Biden aide said Wednesday, rounding out the vice president’s plans for after he leaves the White House. In addition …
House Republican leaders on Wednesday identified their primary targets in the long-standing effort to roll back President Obama’s “job-killing” regulations, vowing swift action to nix two environmental rules. … In his first floor speech of the 115th…
On Wednesday, President Obama added another prestigious medal to his Nobel Prize collection when he had Defense Secretary Ash Carter award him with the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service.
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