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President Obama is using his first Oval Office speech to outline a plan that he hopes will force BP to compensate individuals and businesses for their financial losses from the oil spill.At the same...
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President Obama is using his first Oval Office speech to outline a plan that he hopes will force BP to compensate individuals and businesses for their financial losses from the oil spill.At the same...
View ArticleAfter Financial Reform, G-20 Begins
After months of negotiations, House and Senate lawmakers announced they have reached a consensus on financial reform legislation. The Associated Press reports lawmakers negotiated well into the night...
View ArticleObama Appoints Medicare Chief
President Obama bypassed the Senate and appointed healthcare expert Donald M. Berwick to run Medicare and Medicaid programs.The Washington Post reports these two programs have not had an administrator...
View ArticleObama Urges Action on Jobs Bill
President Barack Obama is urging Congress to act on a bill he says will benefit small businesses by creating additional tax cuts and making credit more readily available. That, he said, would make it...
View ArticleObama Addresses U.S. Troops in Texas
President Barack Obama met with troops at Fort Bliss, Tex. on Tuesday, hours before his national address on the end of the U.S. combat mission in Iraq. He expressed gratitude to the troops for "a job...
View ArticlePresident Obama Holds News Conference at the White House
President Barack Obama held a news conference at the White House on Friday, fielding questions from the press on topics ranging from the economy to national security to peace talks in the Middle...
View ArticlePresident Obama Announces Pay Freeze for Federal Employees
President Barack Obama has announced a two-year pay freeze for all civilian federal employees. He made the announcement from the White House on Monday.The freeze would save the nation $2 billion in the...
View ArticleObama Pledges Support, Confidence in Egypt
The resignation of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is sparking celebration among Egyptians worldwide. Hundreds of thousands chanted and cheered in Cairo's main square following Friday's...
View ArticleObama Proposes Domestic Spending Freeze
President Barack Obama has introduced his budget proposal, touting investments in ideas that will "out-build and out-innovate and out-educate, as well as out-hustle" the rest of the world. He delivered...
View ArticleGovernment, Opposition Forces Clash in Libya
Supporters and opponents of longtime Libyan President Moammar Gadhafi continue to fight for control over the country's major cities, as international pressure calling for Gadhafi's resignation...
View ArticlePresident Obama meets in California with China's new leader and Attorney...
In this week's Washington Report, David Sanger - chief Washington correspondent for the New York Times - speaks with Kerry Nolan about the upcoming meeting between President Obama and China's President...
View ArticleWill the U.S. government allow more surveillance oversight? Drone use in...
Host Kerry Nolan talks with New York Times Chief Washington correspondent David Sangerabout President Obama's plan to provide greater oversight when it comes to government surveillance programs; we...
View ArticleThe search for Fed Chair continues without Lawrence Summers; The plan for...
Kerry Nolan talks with New York Times Chief Washington correspondent David Sanger on the President's seeming indecision on Syria and Lawrence Summer's pullout as a candidate for Chair of the Federal...
View ArticlePresident Obama's Health Care Issues; Typhoon Haiyan and the Iranian Nuclear...
Kerry Nolantalks with New York Times Chief Washington Correspondent David Sanger about this weekend's failed nuclear negotiations with Iran, about the latest problems with the rollout of the Affordable...
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