Yahoo! News: Politics - Barack Obama
Politics - Barack Obama
Obama to meet Haiti's president, fly to Missouri
(AP)
10 Mar 2010 at 2:06am
AP - President Barack Obama meets with the president of Haiti Wednesday morning and later flies to Missouri for another gathering on health care reform.
Gates: Some troops could leave Afghanistan early
(AP)
10 Mar 2010 at 2:03am
AP - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates raised the possibility Wednesday that some of the U.S. forces involved in the Afghanistan surge could leave the country before President Barack Obama's announced July 2011 date to begin withdrawal.
Obama pushing on health care end game
(AP)
10 Mar 2010 at 12:20am
AP - President Barack Obama has chosen a suburban St. Louis high school to make his closing argument for a health care overhaul, pushing a new anti-fraud plan as he cranks up the pressure on skittish Democratic lawmakers to act fast.
How the AP-GfK poll on Obama was conducted
(AP)
10 Mar 2010 at 12:18am
AP - The Associated Press-GfK Poll on President Obama, the direction of the country and health care was conducted by GfK Roper Public Affairs & Media from March 3-8. It is based on landline and cell phone telephone interviews with a nationally representative random sample of 1,002 adults. Interviews were conducted with 702 respondents on landline telephones and 300 on cellular phones.
AP-GfK Poll: Obama more popular than Congress
(AP)
10 Mar 2010 at 12:17am
AP - Americans have come to detest Congress ever more deeply as it nears the end of a nasty fight over health care. But more than half still back President Barack Obama, a bright spot for a Democratic Party counting on its leader to help stave off expected losses in elections this fall.
Reconciliation bill will be hard for GOP to derail
(AP)
10 Mar 2010 at 12:15am
AP - Democrats are tying the fate of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul to a fast-track process that will make the bill tough for Republicans to derail in the Senate. But GOP lawmakers will still be able to force votes and make arguments that could give them ammunition for November's congressional elections.
Obama to host president of quake-ravaged Haiti
(AFP)
9 Mar 2010 at 11:39pm
AFP - President Barack Obama meets Wednesday with Haitian President Rene Preval, renewing his pledge of US support for efforts to rebuild the quake-shattered Caribbean nation.
Obama using 'bounty hunters' to root out fraud
(AP)
9 Mar 2010 at 8:14pm
AP - President Barack Obama said Tuesday he'll bring in high-tech bounty hunters to help root out health care fraud, grabbing a populist idea with bipartisan backing in his final push to overhaul the system.
Roberts: Scene at State of Union 'very troubling'
(AP)
9 Mar 2010 at 7:09pm
AP - U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts said Tuesday the scene at President Barack Obama's first State of the Union address was "very troubling" and that the annual speech to Congress has "degenerated into a political pep rally."
Business groups launch ad against health care bill
(AP)
9 Mar 2010 at 6:48pm
AP - Major business groups Tuesday announced a multimillion-dollar ad campaign to stop President Barack Obama's health care overhaul as it approaches a make-or-break vote in the House.
Obama: Greece, facing bad days, has US as ally
(AP)
9 Mar 2010 at 6:19pm
AP - President Barack Obama stood with Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou on Tuesday and pledged that the United States would work with its ally, even as Greece's enormous debts sparked frenzied trading.
Obama backs bipartisan crackdown on healthcare cheats
(Reuters)
9 Mar 2010 at 6:09pm
Reuters - President Barack Obama, making a final push for healthcare reform, will back bipartisan plans to stamp out waste in government-run medical programs for the old and needy, the White House said on Tuesday.
Obama pushes climate change in White House meeting
(Reuters)
9 Mar 2010 at 5:31pm
Reuters - President Barack Obama, weighing in on the Senate's efforts to pass a climate change bill, gathered Republican and Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday to try to jumpstart an overhaul of U.S. energy policy.
A policy change on abortion, but how radical?
(AP)
9 Mar 2010 at 5:01pm
AP - President Barack Obama's health care bill would change federal policy on abortion, but it would not open the spigot of taxpayer dollars as some abortion opponents fear.
Obama pushes senators for climate bill
(AP)
9 Mar 2010 at 4:54pm
AP - President Barack Obama made a renewed push for a long-stalled climate and energy bill Tuesday, urging lawmakers at a White House meeting to pass a comprehensive bill this year.
