Posts Tagged ‘President Obama’

Americans Support Two Major Elements of Tax Compromise

Two-thirds of Americans support key elements of the compromise tax bill worked out by President Obama and Republican leaders this week: extending tax breaks for two years for all Americans and extending unemployment benefits for the long-term unemployed. View full post on All Stories

Tax Deal Suggests New Path for Obama

President Obama agreed to a tentative deal to extend the Bush tax cuts, part of a package to keep jobless aid and cut payroll taxes. View full post on All Stories

Obama: U.S. faces ‘Sputnik moment’

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., Dec. 6 (UPI) — One lesson taken from the recession is that the U.S. economy can’t be driven by too much borrowing or too much spending, President Obama said Monday. View full post on All Stories

Republican Leader Seeks Changes with Criticisms of Obama

Tom Ramstack – AHN News Correspondent Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – The House of Representatives’ former Republican Conference chairman criticized President Barack Obama Friday in a speech that implied he had become arrogant in using his power. “You must always be wary of a president who seems to float upon his greatness,” said Rep. [...]

Sunday shows: Into the lame duck

Tax cuts, leadership races, President Obama’s fiscal commission and more figure to be the topics of conversation this weekend. Read more… View full post on All Stories

U.S. Briefed Pakistan Indian U.N. Endorsement

Tejinder Singh – AHN News Correspondent Washiington, D.C., United States (AHN) – The United States has briefed Pakistan on President Barack Obama’s decision to endorse Indian aspirations to join U.N. Security Council with a permanent seat and is leaving it to Islamabad to deal with the facts, according to the State Department. Answering questions on [...]

Deficit commission proposes axing commercial spaceflight without knowing what it is

On November 10 the co-chairs of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform , a body created by President Obama to find solutions to the nation’s budgetary woes, released a draft list of “illustrative” cuts that could save taxpayers $200 billion a year by 2015. Among the 58-point list ( pdf ) produced by [...]

Protest Delays Civil Rights Commission’s Criticism of Justice Department

Tom Ramstack – AHN News Correspondent Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – A civil rights commission’s report that criticizes the Justice Department’s handling of a voter intimidation case was delayed Friday when one of the commissioners walked out of a meeting in protest. He called the commission’s planned vote on whether to approve the report [...]

Democrats Struggle To Make Case On Economy

President Obama and other Democrats say the huge economic problems they inherited would have been worse without the programs they put in place. But with unemployment at 9.6 percent and foreclosures continuing to mount, that argument hasn’t gotten much traction. View full post on All Stories

Obama Congratulates Chile’s Pinera

Tejinder Singh – AHN News Correspondent Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – The White House on Thursday announced that President Barack Obama, spoke with Chilean President Sebastian Pinera on the positive outcome of rescue operations in his country. The WH communique said, the U.S. president called the Chilean president, “to congratulate him and the Chilean [...]

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