Sentences with phrase «obama also»

Obama also echoed real estate industry concerns over the qualified mortgage (QM) and qualified residential mortgage (QRM) rules, which federal banking regulators have been working on since passage of the big Wall Street reform law that was enacted two years ago.

Obama also elevated the head of the Small Business Administration to Cabinet - level status on Friday.

President Barack Obama also decried the break, but he never took the bold step of changing it via executive order.

Obama also provides a vigorous defense of his signature legislative accomplishment, health care reform, while Romney calls for reforms that promote competition without government intervention.

Among his proposals included «The Personal Data Notification & Protection Act» which clarifies and strengthens the obligations businesses have to notify customers when their personal information has been exposed including establishing a 30 - day notification requirement from the discovery of a breach President Obama also highlighted the actions of Bank of America and JPMorganChase, who have joined a growing list of firms making credit scores available for free to their consumer card customers.

President Obama also proposed this fix in his FY 14 budget proposal.

Obama also asks that the FCC investigate and potentially apply net neutrality rules to the interconnect points that sit between service providers, like Comcast and Verizon, and content providers, like Netflix.

President Obama also wanted to keep using a smartphone, but when he assumed office, he traded in his BlackBerry for a secure, encrypted device that had most smartphone features turned off and could only communicate with a preselected group of aides who also had secure devices.

Former President Barack Obama also voiced his support, writing on Twitter: «Michelle and I are so inspired by all the young people who made today's marches happen.

Obama also announced that although military commissions would remain an option for detainees who are captured on the battlefield in active theaters, for all others, Article III courts are the preferred option for terrorism prosecutions.

To be fair, Obama also mentioned clean coal, so these comments apply to him as well in this regards.

Obama also named his appointment of Lisa Jackson as the chief of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Nancy Sutley as head of the White House Council on Environmental Quality and Carol Browner as head of a newly - created White House position to coordinate energy, environment and climate change policies across federal agencies.

As a result (and as a result of the recession Obama also inherited), the nation's carbon dioxide emissions began to fall modestly.

Obama also warned that, while he didn't see a conflict between growing the economy and protecting the environment, creating a «new energy economy» won't happen overnight.

Well, yesterday Obama also (again) iterated the need to transition the United States away from dependence on oil.

Obama also said «Our ability to take collective action is in doubt and hangs in the balance.»

Mr. Obama also said that wealthy countries should provide «financial and technical assistance» to help poorer nations pursue low - emissions development, and to adapt to the consequences of climate change.

Obama also moved to cement relations with other big climate polluters — notably China, entering a joint agreement last year to cut emissions, and India, Brazil, and Mexico.

Citing the role of green industries in driving growth, Hollande and Obama also say they «can do more» to help developing countries build low carbon energy systems and adapt to changing weather conditions.

Obama also opposes drilling in ANWR, while proponents say the industry is capable of tapping large amounts of oil while protecting the fragile ecosystem.

But President Obama also has some other big tools at his disposal: Rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline, ending destructive oil and gas drilling in the Arctic and on public lands, stopping mountaintop - removal mining, curbing fossil fuel exports, and closing loopholes that exempt drilling and fracking for oil and gas from fundamental environmental protections.

President Obama also pushed hard to create the Reclaim Act and the Power Initiative, two federal programs designed to reinvest money into coal communities and fund the reclamation of abandoned mine sites.

Obama also added that he wants to double the production of renewable energy, although he didn't put a time frame on it.

Obama also issued an executive order Tuesday that requires federal agencies to factor climate - change «resilience» into international development programs and spending.

President Obama also acknowledged our ethical responsibility to future generations to reduce the threat of climate change when he said:

President Obama also ended his speech with a call to recognize the sacred importance of protecting Earth by recalling the astonishment of the astronauts when they saw the Earth from outer space as they came around the moon for the first time.

President Obama also acknowledged that because nations have delayed in taking meaningful climate action, the world is running out of time to prevent catastrophic warming.

Obama also addressed what has been perhaps the biggest issue of contention between his administration and climate activists: The pending decision whether to permit construction of the Keystone XL pipeline to transport larger volumes of oil from Canada's tar sands to the refining centers of Texas.

Obama also has previously called for instituting a national renewable portfolio standard that would require the nation to get 25 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2025.

Obama also said there was a «pause in American leadership» related to fighting global warming without actually coming out and saying he was talking about Trump's plans to withdraw from the Paris accord.

Mr. Modi and Mr. Obama also agreed to limit hydrofluorocarbons, powerful greenhouse - gas emissions, through the Montreal Protocol, which is perhaps the most effective environmental treaty ever signed.

Obama also called for funding to modernize the nation's electricity grid and make 75 percent of all federal buildings and up to 2 million American homes more energy efficient.

President Obama also has the power under the Clean Air Act to implement an executive agreement at the international level, rendering Senate approval of a climate treaty unnecessary.

Obama also hired Podesta, founder of the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, to advise him on energy and climate policy, among other issues.

OBAMA also quoted in his wanna - be-green energy address, «my plan makes electricity prices skyrocket»!

Obama also pays a slightly lower rate than his own secretary, the White House said.

Obama also cut taxes for working families, small businesses and first - time home buyers.

Obama also reduced the forgiveness period for all other student loans to 20 years.

President Obama also emphasized the importance of establishing «a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration» in his Jan. 21, 2009, Memorandum on Transparency and Open Government.

Obama also voiced his determination to oppose what he called «reckless» spending cuts being pushed by many lawmakers in Congress, drawing a strong line at education funding.

Obama also said that his education reforms were «starting to show gains.»

In 2013, First Lady Michelle Obama also endorsed a growth mindset with students at Savoy Elementary in Washington: «No one is born smart.

Although Common Core was developed by Republican and Democratic governors and state education officials, President Barack Obama also played a significant role by encouraging states to adopt it through a $ 4.4 billion grant program in 2009.

President Obama also has championed the success that innovative schools of choice have had educating students who would otherwise be stuck in failing schools.

Obama also named Los Angeles Deputy Mayor for Energy and Environment, Nancy Sutley, 45, as head of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, an office that coordinates federal environmental actions.

Barack Obama also supports relaxing federal restrictions on research of these dynamic cells.

Obama also softened his proposal to eliminate Constellation entirely, saying that he had directed NASA Administrator Charles Bolden to begin work on an escape craft for the International Space Station that would be based on Constellation's Orion crew capsule.

Obama also committed the U.S. government, which funds the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) that has provided ARVs to 4 million people in other countries, to bumping up its goals for 2013.

Given the White House's preoccupation with health care and climate change, however, NASA officials and their industry backers see the new policy as welcome proof that Obama also cares about space flight.

Obama also is planning to speak Tuesday at the United Nations during a special summit on climate change as diplomats look to kick - start talks that U.N. Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon said this week are stalled.