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Image credit: John Fekner & Don Leicht In an effort to rally support for healthcare reforms under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), President Barack Obama spoke today about how one requirement of his flagship law is already putting money back in Americans» wallets.
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• Speaking of Time's Up... Attorney Tina Tchen, who Bloomberg describes as «arguably the most well - connected person working in women's rights today, thanks to her six years as an assistant to President Barack Obama and as first lady Michelle Obama's chief of staff,» talks about why it was so important that Time's Up include a legal defense fund: «The fastest way to make sure that someone isn't getting bullied by a lawyer for someone rich and powerful is to make sure that person has a lawyer, too.»
Alberta premier Alison Redford is in Washington, DC today to speak about her province's energy resources and environmental policies as the Obama administration continues to review the proposed Keystone XL pipeline.
He spoke with Christianity Today about his reaction to Obama's decision and his advice for Warren.
It's fascinating to me that so few of the Americans who are speaking up so vehemently now against Barack Hussein Obama were yelling nearly as loudly when our last president led us into the multi-decade global fiasco we find ourselves still mired in today.
I had a big tree planted in my front yard today (a fitting new beginning - my birthday gift from my family this year) and when I walked out of my house wearing my Obama shirt the three guys who were here to plant it (who mostly only spoke spanish) asked me (pointing to my shirt) if I was happy and I said «yes!»
Altschuler issued a statement today saying he «vehemently» disagrees with Obama on the mosque, but appreciates his «forthrightness for speaking out on the issue.»
I am not an American (i.e. Canadian) and I was speaking to a friend today and he told me that apparently Obama passed a law last year that gives the president the power to execute any American citizen without having an actual trial?
President Obama travels to Dallas, TX today, where he and former President George W. Bush will speak at an interfaith memorial service for five police officers slain late last week, as well as meet with the victims» families.
Speaking at a small business in Maryland today, Obama pointed out that 64,000 private - sector jobs had been added in the private sector for the ninth straight month of private - sector growth.
In today's Congressional Corner, she speaks with Alan Chartock about President - Elect Donald Trump's proposed cabinet appointments and President Barack Obama's legacy.
Speaking today at a White House event honoring the nation's top elementary school teachers and scientist - mentors, President Barack Obama gave a stump - like speech about the need «to move from the middle to the top of the pack in science and math education over the next decade.»
Speaking of climate change, the White House announced today that President Obama will attend the Copenhagen climate talks and probably announce a U.S. commitment, contingent on congressional agreement, of a 17 % cut in greenhouse gas emissions relative to 2005 by 2020.
Speaking to TODAY's Matt Lauer in the Green Room of the White House for nearly 30 minutes, Obama said that additional funding tied to significant reforms — including a longer school year and lifting teaching as a profession — is a much - needed fix.
President Barack Obama spoke about the effort on NBC's «Today» show last week, telling Matt Lauer that the administration would, in particular, like to recruit 10,000 new mathematics and science teachers over the next two years.
Today, First Lady Michelle Obama spoke out against the House legislation, which she believes backpedals on efforts to improve child nutrition and health.
Listening to Poons speak about color and the satisfaction he feels when it brings light to the surface of a painting is about as far from the kind of rhetoric exercised in graduate art history classrooms today as Pollock is from Warhol or, in more topical terms, as Obama is from Bush.
As President Obama heads to Oklahoma today to announce the fast - tracking of the southern portion of the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Oklahoma to Texas, we speak with 350.org's Bill McKibben.
(11/14/2012) At a news conference today, a question by New York Times reporter Mark Landler pushed President Obama to speak at some length about climate change.
something else I missed, obviously), the Inauguration today and hearing Oscar Peterson's Hymn to Freedom (to be played at the Inauguration), it was tempting to add my musings to the millions of words written and spoken about how these are all interconnected, why it took someone with Obama's background rather than the descendant of slaves to get things this far, or about the significance of transitions in democratic... [more]
something else I missed, obviously), the Inauguration today and hearing Oscar Peterson's Hymn to Freedom (to be played at the Inauguration), it was tempting to add my musings to the millions of words written and spoken about how these are all interconnected, why it took someone with Obama's background rather than the descendant of slaves to get things this far, or about the significance of transitions in democratic systems and why sometimes ritual matters (the personifications of the old and new regimes riding in a car together to the Inauguration not being the least important of these).
WASHINGTON - Speaking to the National Association of Home Builders Spring Board of Directors Meeting, U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan today announced that the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) will allow homebuyers to apply the Obama Administration's new $ 8,000 first - time homebuyer tax credit toward the purchase costs of a FHA - insured home.