(Reuters) – The Obama administration-backed bill to extend jobless benefits for 1.3 million Americans narrowly cleared a Republican procedural roadblock in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday,...
U.S. Rep. Mel Watt. PHOTO/Reuters Democrats have taken advantage of their weakening of filibusters and muscled through the Senate President Barack Obama’s pick to lead a...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday endorsed the move by Democrats to revamp Senate filibuster rules to make it easier for...
U.S. President Barack Obama delivers a statement about the re-opening of government following a 2 week shutdown. PHOTO/Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images Facing a deadline, Congress passed and...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File The Republicans, particularly in the House, pushed for a government shutdown and then threatened not to increase the federal debt ceiling...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama and congressional Republican leaders moved to end their fiscal impasse on Friday, but struggled to...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File U.S. President Barack Obama is cancelling a trip to Asia to stay in Washington and push for an elusive funding bill...
U.S. President Barack Obama addresses nation regarding government shutdown in the Rose Garden of the White House. PHOTO/Getty Images U.S. President Barack Obama has canceled two...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File U.S. President Barack Obama said on the first day of a partial federal government shutdown that House Republicans are on an...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File With the government teetering on the brink of partial shutdown, congressional Republicans vowed today to keep using an otherwise routine federal...
U.S. President Barack Obama (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama will ask to business leaders on Wednesday to urge Congress to approve an increase in the...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama returned to Washington on Sunday after a brief summer vacation readying for what is expected to be a...
U.S. President Barack Obama greets Republican leaders, Speaker John Boehner (c) and Eric Cantor (r). PHOTO/ Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images President Barack Obama is conceding “we’re probably...
Uncle Sam is an elderly man with white hair and a goatee. He usually wears a white top hat with white stars on a blue band,...
U.S. President Barack Obama delivering the State of The Union Address during a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington., Feb 12, 2013. PHOTO/Charles...
U.S. President Barack Obama President Barack Obama’s approval ratings are at their highest since 2009, and and Americans prefer his economic message to that of his...
U.S. President Barack Obama with former Sen. Chuck Hagel. PHOTO/Salah Malkawi/Getty Images Senate Democrats and the White House struggled to break an impasse Thursday over Chuck...
U.S. President Barack Obama (r) shakes hands with Speaker of the House John Boehner (l) during a meeting with bipartisan group of congressional leaders in the...
U.S. President Barack Obama (r) shakes hands with Speaker of the House John Boehner (l) during a meeting with bipartisan group of congressional leaders in the...
U.S. President Barack Obama (r) shakes hands with Speaker of the House John Boehner (l) during a meeting with bipartisan group of congressional leaders in the...
U.S. President Barack Obama (r) with the Speaker of the house John Boehner. PHOTO/File Amid increasing anxiety that the White House and top Republicans are wasting...
U.S. President Barack Obama (r) shakes hands with Speaker of the House John Boehner (l) during a meeting with bipartisan group of congressional leaders in the...
Speaker John Boehner and U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images (Reuters) – A senior Republican senator voiced confidence on Sunday that U.S. lawmakers would forge...
Re-elected U.S.President Barack Obama with Speaker John Boehner. PHOTO/AP Taking little time to celebrate, President Barack Obama is setting out to leverage his re-election into legislative...
President Barack Obama speaks Tuesday in Washington. PHOTO/Evan Vucci/AP Ending months of equivocation, President Barack Obama declared his support for gay marriage on Wednesday, an announcement...
Vice President Joe Biden delivered a harsh attack Thursday on Mitt Romney’s foreign policy views, arguing that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee is rooted in a...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File Picking an election-year fight with Republicans, President Barack Obama is urging Congress to boost taxes on millionaires, traveling to Florida to...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Obama leads GOP presidential front-runner Mitt Romney by 10 percent, according to a Suffolk University poll released on Monday. Obama...
A circuit court judge in Wisconsin has suspended the state’s controversial voter ID law, arguing there is little proof it would prevent voter fraud, as proponents...
President Barack Obama took his newly combative message to the liberal West Coast on Sunday, aiming to re-energize faithful Democratic voters who have grown increasingly disenchanted...
WASHINGTON (AP) - Administration officials and private economists say that if the U.S. fails to raise its borrowing limit by Aug. 2 and begins to stop...
President Barack Obama said Wednesday he believes Democrats and Republicans will reach agreement on reasonable spending cuts and an end to tax cuts for the superwealthy...
