Sentences with phrase «president barack obama»

(«I do not view the labor movement as part of the problem,» President Barack Obama said this morning at a White House reception.

With an immigration showdown looming between House Republicans and President Barack Obama, start - ups and entrepreneurs aren't exactly elated by recent executive actions.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- President Barack Obama said Saturday that the country is «a better place today» than when he graduated from college more than 30 years ago, citing his historic election as «one indicator of how attitudes have changed.»

Former US President Barack Obama commended Parkland student activists for «speaking truth to power» in a piece written for TIME magazine.

Media mogul Barry Diller tells CNBC that Sony deserves sympathy for the hacking attack and for President Barack Obama criticism.

President Barack Obama clearly wants to use the project to prove his seriousness in tackling climate change.

Matt Miller, a Justice Department spokesman under President Barack Obama, said he realized after Trump fired Comey that «we all need to expand our imagination about what [Trump] might do to stop this investigation.»

The rule was proposed last year under former President Barack Obama, a Democrat who appointed the current director of the CFPB, Richard Cordray.

Meeting on the first Monday in October, as required by law, the justices entered the crowded marble courtroom for the first time since their momentous decision in late June that upheld President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.

But President Barack Obama, too, has a soft spot for entrepreneurs and is doing what he can from the White House to make it easier to start a business.

Since Macri's election at the end of last year, both US President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry have visited Argentina.

The last - minute accord brokered by President Barack Obama represented the first time that the world's major developing countries — China, Brazil, South Africa and India — committed to setting emission targets.

The US signed the agreement under President Barack Obama in December 2015 alongside 194 other nations and remains part of it, but the Trump administration has pledged to withdraw the US from it.

Assad has said he saw promise in Trump's statements emphasising the battle against Islamic State in Syria, where U.S. policy under President Barack Obama had backed some of the rebels fighting Assad and shunned him as an illegitimate leader.

Look to the very top: President Barack Obama cried in 2008 while thanking his campaign staff; he cried after the Newtown shooting; he cried when his grandmother died and, in April, when thinking of his daughter leaving for college.

This summer, President Barack Obama decreed that spouses of H1 - B holders would be allowed to work in the U.S..

The prime minister also indefinitely postponed a North American leaders» summit planned for February, seemingly uninterested in sharing a stage with U.S. President Barack Obama.

Whole Foods CEO John Mackey, who aspires to using his business for a «higher purpose» than just raking in cash (though he's doing that, too), took a public stand against President Barack Obama's healthcare reforms, describing them as akin to «fascism.»

The Federal Reserve appears to be ready to increase interest rates sooner than many economists were expecting, said Alan Krueger, former chairman of President Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisers.

During an interview with MSNBC's Chris Matthews that aired Thursday, Kellyanne Conway defended Trump's executive order on immigration last week by saying that former President Barack Obama instituted a similar policy for Iraqi refugees in 2011.

Andrew Wright, a professor at Savannah Law School who was an associate in the White House counsel's office under President Barack Obama, said he was «glad to see the Trump administration acknowledging the legitimacy of the findings of our intelligence community and the Mueller grand jury: that Russians illegally interfered with our elections.»

The age of personalized medicine was behind President Barack Obama's «moonshot» to cure cancer.

Just weeks after President Barack Obama appeared at its plant for a photo opportunity in May 2010, the company was experiencing cash - flow problems that caused it to cancel a planned initial public offering.

A Republican president and Republican Congress are threatening to do what President Barack Obama never could: raise taxes on the rich.

It took President Barack Obama more than a year from his inauguration to get the Affordable Care Act passed by the skin of its teeth — despite enjoying massive Congressional majorities.

President Barack Obama on Monday nominated Chuck Hagel as defense secretary — calling him «the leader our troops deserve» and a man who could make «tough fiscal choices» in a time of increasing austerity.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren sent a letter to President Barack Obama on Friday, urging him to replace Mary Jo White as head of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Edward Price, the former senior director of the National Security Council under President Barack Obama, echoed that view.

President Barack Obama announces proposed gun reforms in December 2012.

State Department envoy Clifford Sloan said last month that the United States was in talks with a wide range of countries to speed the transfer of prisoners as President Barack Obama looked to make good on a long - standing promise to close the facility.

DANVILLE, Ky. — In a spirited debate that laid out stark choices, Joe Biden and Paul Ryan teed up pointed arguments on the economy, social policy and America's place in the world that President Barack Obama and GOP rival Mitt Romney now will drive forward into the campaign's final stretch.

President Barack Obama meets with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Oval Office of the White House

U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang agreed on Monday to step up cooperation in the United Nations Security Council and in law - enforcement channels after North Korea's fifth nuclear test, the White House said.

More than 56,600 foreigners have been caught crossing from Mexico illegally between February and May, down from 137,800 people in the same period during President Barack Obama's last year in office.

Earlier this week, President Barack Obama unveiled executive actions on guns, which, among other things, are designed to make gun sales easier to monitor and keep guns out of the hands of people who are prohibited from having them because of criminal and certain mental health records.

President Barack Obama said in a statement, «With John's passing, our nation has lost an icon and Michelle and I have lost a friend.»

The headlines about President Barack Obama's meeting with House Republicans last Wednesday read along these lines: «The president said the Keystone job numbers are grossly exaggerated.»

By running the risk of higher deficits, the Trump plan could damage the credibility of Republican lawmakers who spent years railing against the rising national debt under former President Barack Obama.

The announcements from Sens. Mike Lee of Utah and Jerry Moran of Kansas left the Republican Party's long - promised efforts to get rid of President Barack Obama's health care legislation reeling.

«I can be tough with President Barack Obama, and I can be tough with Donald Trump.»

The Democratic presidential nominee's support among millennial voters dwarfs Trump's but is far lower than President Barack Obama's support in the 2008 and 2012 elections.

Despite these actions, there are more Venezuelan officials who could be hit with sanctions, and the US is likely to go after them, according to Mark Feierstein, who was senior director for Western Hemisphere affairs on President Barack Obama's National Security Council.

Under former president Barack Obama, Transcanada Corp's Keystone XL oil pipeline was rejected in 2015 after environmentalists campaigned against the project for more than seven years.

Salesforce had no comment, but according to a Twitter (twtr) post, Benioff spent part of Wednesday, the day of the summit, at the White House with President Barack Obama (and magician David Blaine.)

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.

A Tier 3 rating would normally trigger a range of sanctions from the United States but President Barack Obama waved the sanctions in Thailand's case.

US President Barack Obama, in a statement late Thursday, condemned the attack and said the US stood ready to aid France in responding and recovering.

The Senate spiked President Barack Obama's American Jobs Act.

Last week, Trump signed an executive order rolling back former President Barack Obama's climate change policies, including the Clean Power Plan to slash carbon emissions from power plants — a key factor in the United States» ability to meet its Paris commitments.

The Republican presidential candidate skipped the chance to take part in Nickelodeon's «Kids Pick the President» special that includes President Barack Obama, said Linda Ellerbee, the show's host and executive producer.