Sentences with phrase «than president barack»

And in looking for proof of the Xbox 360's position as the defining console of the age, you can refer to no less an authority than President Barack Obama.

It's $ 10 million more than President Barack Obama requested earlier this year, an amount that corresponds roughly to the $ 10.5 million that legislators have included for special projects in their districts.

A little while back, we wrote about how new Gallup data indicated that former President Bill Clinton might prove to be a more effective surrogate for candidates this fall than President Barack Obama.

Polls showed that Americans blamed the Republicans more for the shutdown than President Barack Obama by a margin of 22 points (53 percent to 31 percent).

One rationale for the Long Island showing by the Democrats could be the short coattails of Clinton, who took a smaller share of the vote there than President Barack Obama did in 2012.

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.

And no less than President Barack Obama said Canada had proven itself to be «a pretty good manager of the financial system and the economy in ways that we haven't always been here in the United States.»

The former secretary of state wrote that in Pennsylvania, her team had 120 more staffers on the ground than President Barack Obama did four years earlier and spent 211 % more on TV ads.

Not exact matches

Benioff raised more than $ 500,000 for President Barack Obama's second term election, but also gave $ 10,000 to Paul Ryan's run for House before the Republican was named Mitt Romney's running mate in the 2012 election.

This is more than triple the number of times President Barack Obama was mentioned during the same period of his administration.

«The commercialization of LEO (low Earth orbit) is an exciting prospect, but it will be an exercise in determining what ideas are more real than others,» said Phil Larson, a former space policy adviser to President Barack Obama who worked for Elon Musk's SpaceX, or Space Exploration Technologies Corp..

Both Ferrance's and DiCeglie's counties flipped from their 2012 vote margins in favor of President Barack Obama by more than 31,000 votes to favor Trump.

This was the case recently when Amy Pascal, Sony's co-chairman and chief of its film division, came under intense criticism for her remarks about President Barack Obama and less than flattering statements about high - profile actors, including Angelina Jolie, Kevin Hart and Adam Sandler.

President Barack Obama on Thursday signed an emergency declaration for Florida because of the storm, which has already killed more than 20 people in Caribbean countries.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.»

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.»

«Jack Johnson's reputation was ruined by a racially motivated conviction more than a century ago after he was charged with transporting a white woman across state lines,» McCain said in 2017 as he unsuccessfully urged President Barack Obama to issue a pardon on his way out of office.

Yet a day after Mateen killed 49 people and wounded more than 50 others in a gay nightclub, President Barack Obama and FBI director James Comey said Monday that he was likely inspired by foreign terrorist groups.

The statement said HHS has already spent more than $ 60 million to promote sign - ups this year under former President Barack Obama's health care law.

President Barack Obama and Speaker of the House John Boehner are unlikely to reverse several scheduled tax increases, including the 0.9 percentage point increase in the Medicare tax rate on wages and salaries of more than $ 200,000 for single filers ($ 250,000 for married filers); a 3.8 percent Medicare tax on unearned income of higher income filers; and an increase in the capital gains tax rate.

But in 2008, more young people cast a ballot than ever before to help elect President Barack Obama.

WikiLeaks said on Tuesday that the documents showed that the CIA hoarded serious security vulnerabilities rather than share them with the public, as called for under a process established by President Barack Obama.

The Post notes that the tax cut is actually the eighth largest in U.S. history, smaller than the two tax cuts passed under President Barack Obama.

As the New York Times's Peter Baker wrote in an article published February 12, using data compiled by the Brookings Institution, «Trump's 34 percent turnover rate in his first year is more than three times as high as President Barack Obama's in the same period and twice as high as President Ronald Reagan's, which until now was the modern record - holder.»

The Senate is preparing to scale back the sweeping banking regulations passed after the 2008 financial crisis, with more than a dozen Democrats ready to give Republicans the votes they need to weaken one of President Barack Obama's largest legislative achievements.

On each poll, participants indicated whether they approved or disapproved of the job performance of President Barack Obama, their state governor, senators, representative and their mayor, if they lived in a city with more than about 10,000 residents.

And for the first time in his presidency, more Americans credit Trump with driving the economic gains than former president Barack Obama.

So when President Barack Obama pushed for a $ 60 billion package of federal aid, it sparked more than three months of partisan sparring — a delay that left Democrats and northeastern Republicans fuming while the remainder of the GOP fulminated against the threat of a growing national debt and the inclusion of spending they deemed wasteful.

There is no better way to get things done than through the meeting of top leaders, as shown by the example of Modi and President Barack Obama.

On more than one occasion, President Barack Obama has proposed capping the tax benefit, on the grounds that too much of the $ 30 billion or so a year in foregone federal taxes ends up in wealthy investors» pockets.

Less than two days after Trump won the presidency, outgoing President Barack Obama warned Trump not to appoint Flynn.

Despite Trump's complaints during the presidential race that the Fed was aiding Democrats in keeping rates ultra-low under President Barack Obama, his choices for a chairman and for other slots on the Fed's board have been moderates rather than hard - core conservatives who would favor a faster tightening of credit.

• Prior to the election, some Iranian commentators claimed that the so - called reformer Hossein Moussavi would actually end up taking a stronger line against the United States than President Ahmadinejad, who was widely denounced by hard - line clerics for agreeing to meet with Barack Obama.

If there is a «white» man in this country who could have been expected to vote for President Barack Obama more than the «white» man who is writing this, it is difficult for me to imagine such....

The general consensus of the day is that Governor Mitt Romney showed up far more prepared than anyone expected and President Barack Obama's generally reliable polish was mysteriously absent in Wednesday night's first presidential debate.

Some in this camp, convinced (wrongly) that President Barack Obama is a Muslim, say they would rather vote for a Mormon than a Muslim.

Trump's administration is also doubling down on immigration enforcement with Kobach leading an effort to overturn President Barack Obama's 2012 executive action that granted temporary deportation relief and work permits to more than 700,000 undocumented people who immigrated to the United States as children.

A majority of Americans say that President Barack Obama's religious beliefs are either somewhat different or very different than their own, a poll on religion and the recent elections found.

«As of Aug. 10, 2012, Barack Obama had signed 135 executive orders since taking office, far fewer than the 923 claimed and by no means the largest number signed by any U.S. president.

«Barack Obama has referred to his faith more times than most presidents ever have, but for many it's the wrong kind of faith,» says Jim Wallis

Frozen for more than half a century, relations between the two nations exhibited small signs of a warming after the 2008 election of President Barack Obama.

Romney says Obama infringing upon religious rights Mitt Romney accused President Barack Obama of infringing upon Americans» religious rights in a fiery address to more than 2,500 supporters Monday in Colorado.

Land said he worried that when President Barack Obama's re-election campaign looks at the polling numbers, they will realize that Obama «has got no choice if he wants to get re-elected but to take the focus off of issues and start saying, «Well, my opponent's worse than I would be.»»

Less than a month ago, Hillary Clinton was flying high and looked to be a shoo - in to succeed Barack Obama as the next president of the United States.

We've received no fewer than three statements from New York Republicans today lambasting various Democrats — starting with President Barack Obama — for what state GOP Chairman Ed Cox deemed an «assault on religious freedom in America.»

Trump raised $ 107 million for his Jan. 20 swearing - in ceremony, more than doubling the previously record - holding $ 53 million President Barack Obama raised for his 2009 inauguration, according to Federal Election Commission records made public yesterday.