WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is taking his case against Republicans to millions of Americans today, faulting the party for refusing to help him turn around the sluggish economy or support some proposed new tax breaks for businesses the party has backed in the past.
Facing devastating poll numbers and prospects of big losses, Democrats are [...] [...]
WASHINGTON — Seeking to give anxious Democrats a boost ahead of the November elections, President Barack Obama is pitching a trio of economic initiatives today and voicing unwavering opposition to Bush-era tax breaks for the wealthy, an issue on which he’s looking to draw a stark contrast with Republicans.
The White House said the package of [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: August 12,2010
Tags: courts, disaster, drilling moratorium, energy, environment, lawsuit, offshore drilling, oil and gas, oil spill, White House
HOUSTON — The Texas attorney general sued the Obama administration yesterday over its new deep-water offshore drilling moratorium, claiming it is unjustified and federal officials did not contact the state before issuing the ban.
Attorney General Greg Abbott filed the 18-page suit in federal court in Houston against Department of the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. The [...] [...]
WASHINGTON — Presidential spokesman Robert Gibbs says the administration is ready to take over the handling of oil spill damage claims from BP if the British company doesn’t set up an “independent entity” to do it.
Speaking from Washington, Gibbs said the oil giant’s claims processing work has been unsatisfactory. He noted that Obama “has the [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: May 5,2010
Tags: Alabama, Anna Aurilio, Barack Obama, BP, british petroleum, Carol Browner, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Environment America, Florida, gulf of mexico, John Hofmeister, Lousiana, Mississippi, Myron Ebell, oil spill, Shell Oil Co., Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, Three Mile Island, White House
HOUSTON — America is seeing the usually hidden costs of fossil fuels – an oil spill’s potential for huge environmental and economic damage, and deaths in coal and oil industry accidents.
But don’t expect much to change. America and the world crave more oil and coal, no matter the all-too-risky ways needed [...] [...]
WASHINGTON — Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) has voiced concerns about the White House’s budget proposals for federal education programs that would mean reduced or stable funding for rural and impoverished school districts.
The administration’s FY2011 budget request for the U.S. Department of Education was scrutinized at a hearing conducted April 14 by the Senate Labor, Health [...] [...]
WASHINGTON — After months of criticism that it hasn’t done enough to prevent foreclosures, the Obama administration is expected to announce today a plan to reduce the amount some troubled borrowers owe on their home loans.
People briefed on the plan said the effort will let people who owe more on their mortgages than their properties [...] [...]
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama signed an order yesterday unilaterally creating a bipartisan commission to rein in unruly deficits after Congress rejected a similar body with considerably more enforcement power.
In making the announcement, Obama said that unless lawmakers put aside partisan differences, the continuing red-ink trend could “hobble our economy.”
The federal deficit hit a record [...] [...]
WASHINGTON — The White House and congressional leaders are preparing a detailed healthcare proposal designed to win passage without Republican support if GOP lawmakers fail to embrace bipartisan compromises at President Barack Obama’s summit next week.
A senior White House official said yesterday that Democratic negotiators are resolving final differences in House and Senate health bills [...] [...]
WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden asserted in an interview today that taxpayers have “gotten their money’s worth” out of the $787 billion stimulus program that Congress passed during the depths of the recession.
In an interview broadcast on CBS’s “The Early Show,” Biden defended the program against accusations by Republicans critics that it hasn’t been [...] [...]
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