Sentences with phrase «obama took»

This is why President Obama took unprecedented steps to strengthen consumer protection and to ensure that mortgages are safe, sustainable and simple to understand.

«Honestly, Obama took office when the US was in a major economic turmoil and noboby wanted to admit it.

The rate is lowest recorded since December 2008, just before President Obama took office.

B. Initiated the first huge spending bill to keep the banking system going before Obama took office.

Ohio's recorded quarterly gains of 1.6 percent are secondary to its more substantial long - term price growth of 15.0 percent since President Obama took office.

The Sustainable Communities partnership was forged among the EPA, the Department of Transportation and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development shortly after President Barack Obama took office in 2009.

After anti-abortion politicians in more than a dozen states tried to stop Planned Parenthood from providing family planning services through the program — with life - threatening results, in some cases — President Obama took steps to help protect access to care at Planned Parenthood health centers.

This year, President Obama took steps to help protect access to care at Planned Parenthood health centers — but the proposal isn't permanent, and the next administration could undo it.

In his own way, President Obama took a stand this week against fake news.

Obama took the bait and set his sights directly on NPEs, saying that «they don't actually produce anything» and noting that they are a «classic example» of a block on innovation.

In fact, on February 14, 2013, President Obama took part in at Google + hangout, where he had the following exchange.

It has been introduced countless times, President Obama has always supported the bill, but after it failed to pass in the Senate in 2010, advocacy groups began pressuring President Obama he took mattersRead more

Obama took office the following month and immediately suspended the military commissions system, which included the 9/11 case and several other cases involving accused terrorists and war criminals held at Guantanamo Bay.

Why Obama Took the Road Less Traveled As a Harvard Law graduate and a law review editor, Barack Obama could have had his pick of virtually any prestigious judicial clerkship.

Once Kerry failed to get congress to pass cap - and - trade, Obama took the route of trying to reduce emissions by regulations.

The industry revived when President Barack Obama took office and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced he wanted to reach the 10,000 - megawatt goal by the end of the administration's first term in 2012.

Based on data from 2008 and before, the study does not cover the period since Barack Obama took office.

Reuters found that food and beverage lobbyists spent more than $ 175 million lobbying since President Obama took office in 2009, more than double that spent in the previous three years, during the Bush Administration.

It was part of a bum rush by the Bush administration to try to sell off public lands before Obama took office.

Obama took the hint; he almost never mentions global warming in public.

Amid considerable chaos, President Obama took the lead in drafting a face - saving «Copenhagen Accord» that fooled very few.

When Obama took office in 2008 he decided to deal with health care before climate change, in essence tackling the biggest remaining problem of the 20th century before teeing up the biggest challenge of the 21st.

The Stimulus package, passed soon after Obama took office, set aside about $ 150 million for the PACE program.

And while president Obama took the oval office last night to deliver a speech chock full of soaring rhetoric, many of the hard facts about the spill weren't covered.

This summer President Obama took the biggest step of any president to date when he raised fuel efficiency standards — a move that will cut US greenhouse gas emissions by 10 % when fully implemented.

We like the buzz we've been hearing since President Obama took office — that we can create jobs and curb climate change by turning toward clean - energy solutions.

In particular, federal fossil fuel production and exploration subsidies in the US have grown in value by 45 percent since President Obama took office in 2009.

President Obama took a major step in the right direction when he made responding to global climate disruption a central commitment in his second Inaugural Address yesterday.

The mining industry and its allies have been crying long and hard since President Obama took office, but the other side of the story has not gotten nearly enough attention.

Pres. Obama took the lead in a series of direct negotiations at Copenhagen with China, India, and others, which lead to the compromise»

On January 20th, we'll be seeing the most dramatic changing of the guard since Obama took office eight years ago.

Many windmills had been sitting at ports in New York for a few years before President Obama took office.

According to a recent analysis by the Heritage Foundation, oil prices have increased 67 percent since President Barack Obama took office.

That was a somewhat politically risky response given the flak Obama took for his no - show at last month's Paris unity march.

A reading of the JLARC report also shows that most of the drop occurred before President Obama took office and the EPA imposed tighter pollution standards.

And in Washington, where everything is political, they'll note that it began before President Obama took office — perhaps «another example of the failed policies of the Bush Administration.»

After President Barack Obama took office, the administration surprisingly announced that its own fuel - economy standards would be about a mile per gallon lower than Bush's.

Two weeks ago, President Obama took a major stand in the fight against climate change with his rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline.

The 3.5 million more American women who have ended up on poverty rolls since President Obama took office?

President Obama took measures to slow global warming by pushing through regulations to limit carbon emissions from vehicles and power plants, encouraging investment in clean energy technologies, and helping to negotiate the Paris climate agreement.

At the time President Obama took office in early 2009, hopes were running high around the world that a major new treaty would be concluded in December in Copenhagen at the annual meeting of the «Conference of the Parties» to the UN Framework Convention.

Though welcoming any support from lawmakers, he said he would forge ahead even without help from Congress, which has not been able to pass a climate change bill since Obama took office.

President Obama took a step last week toward delivering on some of the promises he made in September during his historic trip to Alaska.

Anticipating opposition in Congress and among industry groups, Obama took on his critics in advance, noting that past regulatory measures that cleaned up smog and acid raid were, at the time, predicted to have drastic impacts on the economy.

Of course, projects like this were emerging before Obama took office — but all told, this might be an unprecedented stir of activity on the renewable energy front.

Obama took a beating by environmentalists for pushing to open up offshore oil and gas production, and this disaster just exacerbates it; I wonder if the loss in credibility with environmentalists because of this spill is enough to substantially undermine future energy policy initiatives.

Since Obama took office and the family moved into the White House things have changed in the food and agriculture landscape in the U.S. of A. Let's review.A collective, «Oh No!»

by Will Denayer, President Obama took action back in January to reduce global warming pollution from passenger vehicles by 1.

On October 1, President Obama took the stage at a press conference and did something unusual for the leader of the free world: He explained why a website wasn't working.

Foreign spending has increased since President Obama took office in 2009, and it appears that the sequester will have no effect on his discretionary spending.