Obama tests his power against new Congress
Global News. Obama has already begun preparing for his annual State of the Union address to Congress on Jan.. After expanding their majority in the House of Representatives and winning control of the Senate, giving them full control of Congress for.
Coke to cut up to 2000 jobs in coming weeks - WSJ
President Barack Obama is turning to his biggest television audience of the year to pitch tax increases on the wealthiest Americans and put the new Republican Congress in the position of defending top income earners over the middle class. As Obama.
Revealed: Obamacare Architect Admitted in 2012 Law Wouldnt Have Passed.
As Jeffery H. Anderson of The Weekly Standard wrote on Monday, ���President Obama publicly insisted the individual mandate was not a tax, and Obamacares own text describes it as a penalty, not a tax. Yet, by a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court held that.
Celebrity chefs cook up lobbying agenda
The move sparked a bitter fight between Congress and first lady Michelle Obama, who championed the changes. The school nutrition debate drove Colicchio to trek to Washington last summer for two days of meetings with GOP lawmakers. Despite being .
KIM HOLMES: With Putins hand getting weaker, time to watch out
Pro-Russia separatists in Ukraine appear to be readying a new offensive, possibly to take the port of Mariupol and establish a land corridor to the Russian-occupied province of Crimea.. Another target of Russias ire, the Baltic States, are very.
Labor-Management Partnerships Will Not Revive the Union Movement
The election of Barack Obama and Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress raised labors hopes for the passage of an economic recovery program and long-sought labor law reforms. And it seemed as. And in the public sector, the labor movement.
The most expensive regulation ever
The Obama administration proposed a draft air pollution rule on Wednesday that business groups charge could be the costliest regulation of all time ��� setting up a test of how hard the president will fight for his environmental agenda against a newly.
GOP congressional leaders denounce US-China deal on climate change
Top administration officials made it clear Wednesday the president would pursue some of his top priorities despite GOP opposition. Speaking to reporters on a press call Wednesday, Environmental Protection Agency administrator Gina McCarthy said Obama .
Voters want the GOP to fix the economy. Good luck with that
American voters on Tuesday sharply rejected President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party and voiced a strong desire for a fresh approach to lift stagnant wages and reverse a deep and abiding sense of national economic anxiety. There is a. at.
Its Going To Get A Little Easier For Workers To Unionize
WASHINGTON -- Federal officials unveiled new rules on Friday that will streamline and simplify the union election process, a reform long sought by labor unions and fiercely opposed by businesses. Among other. The labor board -- or at least its left.
Democrats win PACs, lose money war
New reports to the Federal Election Commission show that Democrats, who had been leery about embracing the new big money politics until recently, far outpaced Republicans in the fundraising by super PACs, which are required to report their contributors.
Boehner Crafts Surrender Plan on Obama Executive Amnesty
. coming back for more? In an attempt to find an answer to this question, Speaker John Boehner has now rolled out his big proposal to stop President Obamas executive amnesty ��� and the proposal involves shutting down the government before allowing.
How GOPs play on spending could backfire
Last June, the Republican-controlled House approved at least $1.1 billion to address the backlog in dredging waterways ��� a big issue for the lower Mississippi River and major ports in Southern red states. If Congress now goes with a CR, Obama loses .
On his way to a slim victory in a changing Va., Warner may have wooed wrong.
On Tuesday, Warners victory map was starkly different: a sea of red across the states rural parts but enough deep blue speckled through Northern Virginia, Richmond and Hampton Roads to push him ��� barely ��� across the finish line. Warner and his.
State of the Union: Obama proposals show president on offense despite GOP.
From calls for more infrastructure spending to a free community college push to another tax hike scheme, the highlight reel from President Obamas looming State of the Union address shows him charging into his final two years in office with little heed.
BRUCE FEIN: Defeating Obamas immigration lawlessness
President Barack Obamas executive orders suspending enforcement of the deportation laws for categories of persons unlawfully present in the United States flout his constitutional obligation to ���take care that the laws be faithfully executed.
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