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President Obama proposes easing rules for green cards

The Obama administration announced Friday that it will propose new rules to fix one of the key problems in immigration law, sparing thousands of American citizens from prolonged separation from family members. This action doesn't require Congressional...

White House sees ‘hypocrisy unbound’ in Cantor’s Occupy Wall Street criticism

Earlier today, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor put his elitism on full display, calling the Occupy Wall Street movement a "mob" that is "pitting ... Americans against Americans." The White House responds: Uh, excuse me? White House Press Secretary J...

Obama administration petitions Supreme Court to hear health care lawsuit

The Department of Justice filed a cert petition today asking the Supreme Court to review the 2-1 decision of the Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit striking down the Affordable Care Act, providing this statement. "The Department has consistently a...

Justice Stevens: Health care law has legal support

Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens thinks that clear legal precedent is on the side of the Obama administration when the Affordable Care Act advances to the Supreme Court. He's basing that conclusion on the precedent set in a 2005 medica...

Obama administration puts Affordable Care Act on SCOTUS fast track

The Obama administration has decided to forgo an appeal to the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Atlanta of last month's lower court decision that the Affordable Care Act's mandate is unconstitutional. The decision by the administrati...

Obama plan: raise taxes on wealthy to pay for jobs creation

A repeat of the debt ceiling battle? When President Obama proposed we actually do something to reduce unemployment, it was met with the usual skepticism among Republicans: We can't possibly pay for it! Ignoring the obvious points of (1) GOP indiffere...

Fannie and Freddie will put foreclosed housing into rental market

The White House has given the green light to a program that would put foreclosed properties held by us, taxpayers, in Freddie, Fannie, and the Federal Housing Administration on the rental market, sort of. One proposal would sell packages of hundreds ...

Trade deals likely to be central in White House ‘jobs’ plan

Expect to hear a lot about the pivot to jobs during the August recess, from congressional Democrats back home in their districts and from the White House. For a lot of reasons, rhetoric is most of what we'll get out of this, because the discretionary s...

Obama: Allies Will Soon Take Control of Libyan Campaign

Filed under: Democrats, Republicans, Foreign Policy, Obama Administration, International, Congress, Conservatives'I have absolutely no doubt that we will be able to transfer control of this operation to an international coalition,' President Obama said...

Obama: Allies Will Soon Take Control of Libyan Campaign

Filed under: Democrats, Republicans, Foreign Policy, Obama Administration, International, Congress, Conservatives'I have absolutely no doubt that we will be able to transfer control of this operation to an international coalition,' President Obama said...

Obama: Allies Will Soon Take Control of Libyan Campaign

Filed under: Democrats, Republicans, Foreign Policy, Obama Administration, International, Congress, Conservatives'I have absolutely no doubt that we will be able to transfer control of this operation to an international coalition,' President Obama said...

Obama: Allies Will Soon Take Control of Libyan Campaign

Filed under: Democrats, Republicans, Foreign Policy, Obama Administration, International, Congress, Conservatives'I have absolutely no doubt that we will be able to transfer control of this operation to an international coalition,' President Obama said...

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