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The reelection victory of President Barack Obama over Republican challenger former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney yesterday means initiatives begun in the last four years to address past housing market excesses and help boost the market recovery, including proposed Dodd - Frank banking rules and reform of the secondary mortgage market, could command attention going into the president's second term.

Mr. Trump said during the campaign he would «cancel» U.S. participation in the Paris Agreement, which was ratified in September by former President Barack Obama over the objections of Senate Republicans, who argued that the accord requires Senate ratification under the U.S. Constitution.

(For skeptics who speculate that the survey might have been conservative - leaning by its nature, the same group of respondents also favored Democrat Barack Obama over Republican Mitt Romney for president 51 percent to 40 percent.)

They planned to move swiftly toward a veto showdown with President Barack Obama over the Keystone XL pipeline, summoning unity despite a tea party - backed effort to unseat House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio.

They planned to move swiftly toward a veto showdown with President Barack Obama over the Keystone XL pipeline, summoning unity despite a...

The longtime Republican governor from Texas will team up NHGOP Chair Jennifer Horn on a media conference call to criticize both Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen and President Barack Obama over the current border crisis.

Senate candidate Scott Brown is going up with a new television commercial that links Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire to President Barack Obama over the crisis along the nation's southern border.

Tompkins was the only county in the state that went for Barack Obama over Hillary Rodham Clinton in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary.

Also in 2012, voters in this congressional district voted for Barack Obama over Mitt Romney for president by a margin of 51 - 47 percent.

He is a Democrat who backed Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton in 2008, but chose to caucus with Republicans after winning election to the state Senate in 2012.

If you recall, Trump attacked Barack Obama over the same topic, who happens to NOT be a Mayor of London; so this is all about Trump's ideological views and has absolutely nothing to do with some imputed non-existing «intention» to raise the tension between US and UK.

Santorum also issued a statement with a similar claim: «I would never vote for Barack Obama over any Republican and to suggest otherwise is preposterous.

Not exact matches

Judge Michelle T. Friedland, who was appointed by President Barack Obama and was one of three judges from the Ninth Circuit presiding over the immigration - ban case, asked Flentje, the DOJ lawyer, whether the government had any evidence connecting the seven nations targeted by the order to terrorism.

At a press conference to push his new book, Crippled America, Donald Trump accused President Barack Obama and Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen of foul play over interest rates.

WASHINGTON — Seeking to intensify pressure on Russia, President Barack Obama on Thursday expanded U.S. economic sanctions against Moscow over its actions in Ukraine, targeting President Vladimir Putin's chief of staff and 19 other individuals as well as a Russian bank that provides them support.

For example, Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg wrote on his Facebook page that he had personally called then - President Barack Obama to express «frustration over the damage the government is creating for all of our future.»

Jacobson, a career diplomat, was nominated for the post by President Barack Obama in June 2015, but her confirmation was held up for 10 months in the Senate — led by Republican Sen. Marco Rubio and Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez — over objections to the Obama administration's reestablishment of diplomatic ties with Cuba, which she helped negotiate as assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs.

Since then black voters have provided the margin of victory for Democratic presidential candidates over the years — Jimmy Carter in 1976, Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996, and Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012.

Petraeus, a four - star general married for 37 years, stepped down as head of the US spy agency just three days after President Barack Obama's re-election over his fling with Broadwell, an army reservist who traveled to Afghanistan to write a glowing biography of the general.

The Military Times over the weekend quoted the Center for Military Readiness President Elaine Donnelly, who runs a military advocacy group, as endorsing the «rolling back» of some of President Barack Obama's military personnel reforms.

Small - business owners overwhelmingly favor Mitt Romney over Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential election.

Over the last two months, everyone from IMF head Christine Lagarde and Bank of England Governor Mark Carney have warned that a vote to leave would hit financial markets, while President Barack Obama and others, supported by a stream of studies from think - tanks banks and universities, have warned about the long - term damage to the U.K.'s economy.

In 2016, the Amazon CEO paid $ 23 million — $ 1 million over the home's list price — for the most expensive mansion in the D.C.'s prominent Kalorama neighborhood (making Barack and Michelle Obama, as well as Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump his neighbors).

He also presided over Barack Obama's last physical in office in 2016.

When Barack Obama first became President of the United States in 2009, two - thirds of his key aides were men, and they had a habit of ignoring or talking over the ideas of their female counterparts.

National Public Radio had a succinct look at last weeks» squabble over health care between Democratic frontrunner Sen. Hillary Clinton and her closest rival, Senator Barack Obama.

Over the past couple of weeks, though, news that Bashar al - Assad's regime might have used chemical weapons, and thereby crossed President Barack Obama's «red line,» has put the country far above any other potential spoiler on the probability scale.

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Barack Obama made good Tuesday on a threat to veto a bill to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, bringing the two sides in the long - running controversy to a rare point of agreement: their battle is far from over.

In the same hearing, Comey and National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers added their organizations to the list of many other American and international intelligence agencies over the past week that have said there's no evidence to back the president's wiretapping allegation against former President Barack Obama.

But I wonder how she would approach the Trudeau government's equivocations over the Trans - Pacific Partnership (TPP), the star - crossed trade agreement that former U.S. president Barack Obama hoped would counter China's economic dominance in Asia.

But Trump said «no» when asked if he would rule out investigating Clinton over her family's charitable foundation or her use of a private email server while she was U.S. secretary of state during President Barack Obama's first term.

Republicans last year struck down online privacy regulations issued during President Barack Obama's final months in office that would have given consumers more control over how companies like Comcast, AT&T and Verizon share information.

And given congressional gridlock over immigration reform, the 2012 executive action by President Barack Obama was a reasonable compromise.

Barack Obama's administration pushed for the Trans - Pacific Partnership, again over the objections of labor unions, this time joined by many public health groups.

The third figure at the meeting was yet another Russian close to Vladimir Putin, Kirill Dmitriev, who presides over Russia's $ 10 billion sovereign investment fund, which had been sanctioned by the U.S. during Barack Obama's presidency.

Q: Last year's decision by President Barack Obama's administration to delay approval of the Keystone Pipeline, which is meant to link Alberta's oil sands with Texas refineries, dramatically raised the profile of the environmental clash over the oil sands.

Tuesday's Republican sweep, and Mr. Trump's commitment to focus on the issue, has the GOP salivating over a wish list of Dodd - Frank changes that until recently stood little chance of avoiding President Barack Obama's veto pen.

Zients noted on the Tuesday afternoon call that a little over a year ago President Barack Obama «called for action to crack down on conflicts of interest in retirement advice, which costs American families billions of dollars every year.»

Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards have spent much of the past week criticizing one another over the details of their health plans.

More big - business engagement by multinationals like Coca - Cola (which pledged to invest $ 5 billion in Africa over six years) and Marriott Hotels, as President Barack Obama promised Tuesday in Washington at the U.S. - Africa Leaders Summit, won't directly or immediately help the impoverished and unemployed on the streets of Mogadishu or the marginalized in northern Nigeria.

Consider TransCanada Corp., which recently launched a $ 15 - billion (U.S.) arbitration case against the U.S. government over President Barack Obama's rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline.

Over the years, Pishevar has given more than $ 500,000 to Democratic candidates and committees, including the presidential campaigns of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

«Over the course of his eight years, Barack Obama had four communications directors -LSB-.]

Lew worked for Barack Obama, but worry over the U.S.'s finances is bipartisan.

For instance, his predecessor Barack Obama went through four official chiefs of staff and one interim one over his eight years in office — something Trump mocked at the time:

WASHINGTON — Former president Barack Obama's top campaign aide on Tuesday rejected comparisons between Obama's extensive use of Facebook data to turn out voters in the 2012 election and the actions of Cambridge Analytica, a data and political intelligence firm ejected last week by Facebook in a growing controversy over social - media privacy.

Another Washington - based Catholic operative, John Gehring, e-mailed reporters over the weekend to knock the bishops for criticizing President Barack Obama, even after his administration revised its contraception rule Friday to mandate that insurers - not Catholic institutions - pay for birth control coverage.

CNN's Ben Wedeman gloats over what President Barack Obama likely won't get a chance to see on his visit to the Vatican on Thursday.

(CNN)-- The Rev. Franklin Graham clarified his thoughts on President Barack Obama's Christian faith Wednesday, one day after the evangelical leader took heat over making comments about the president's ties to Islam.

Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN)- Afghan rage over the burning of Qurans by NATO troops continued Thursday even after a President Barack Obama apologized for the «error.»