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President Barack Obama hasn’t kicked the smoking habit, takes anti-inflammatory medication to relieve chronic tendinitis in his left knee and should eat better to lower his cholesterol, his team of doctors concluded Sunday after the 48-year-old’s first medical checkup as commander in chief.
Make no mistake: If President Barack Obama actually wanted to be the post-partisan agent of Washington change, his health-care summit would have looked a whole lot different than the meeting he recently held across the street from the White House.
His Republican vote is news in the town where the partisan divide is colder and harder than a steel rod buried in Arctic ice.
After years of a stagnant economy, furloughs are nothing new to private-sector workers - including newspaper reporters! - and even many state and local employees.
Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda apologized personally and repeatedly Wednesday to the United States and millions of American Toyota owners for safety lapses that have led to deaths and widespread recalls.
Toyota Motor Corp chief Akio Toyoda stepped to center stage in a sprawling U.S. investigation of the Japanese automaker’s safety crisis, apologizing to consumers and pledging reforms to skeptical lawmakers.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday that U.S. diplomacy has moved China closer to the American view that Iran’s continuing refusal to come clean on its nuclear program demands tough new U.N. sanctions.
This June 10, 2006 photo shows a 1996 Camry driven by Koua Fong Lee that crashed into the back of an Oldsmobile Ciera in St.
The Obama administration will work with Congress in developing a plan for sending astronauts to Mars and will release it in the a oecoming months,a the head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said today.
House Communications Subcommittee member Greg Walden , a former broadcaster and one of the industry’s strongest champions on the House Energy & Commerce Committee, is taking a leave of absence to push for House reforms as leader of the GOP Congressional Transparency Initiative.
Something has gone very wrong. Was it just a year ago that Democrats assumed more control in Washington than the party has had in my lifetime? It was.
Tom Davis never saw the bomb that destroyed his humvee as he rounded a corner in Ramadi just a week into his second tour in Iraq in 2006.
An effort is under way to have an upstate New York post office named after a 19-year-old Marine recently killed in action in Afghanistan.
Congressman Bob Brady says “There will never be another Jack Murtha,” adding “He went out on top of his game.” The Pennsylvania Democrat died Monday at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Va., where he was admitted on Jan.
Feb. 9–During his lengthy career in Congress, U.S. Rep. John Murtha earned the respect of his colleagues and even his political rivals.
Among states, California arguably has the most to gain from an overhaul of its health care system: it has the greatest number of uninsured residents in the country and the largest public insurance program for the poor, which struggles to serve 6.5 million people while reimbursing doctors at one of the nation’s lowest rates.
” The nation cannot afford Congress continuing to borrow and print its way into a financial Apocalypse to pay for unsustainable entitlement programs.
State Legislature needs more candidates. The filing deadline for the upcoming primary and general elections passed at midnight Jan.
Congressional investigators are escalating their probe of Toyota Motor Corp. vehicles by examining whether sudden acceleration afflicts models that have not been recalled … and whether all Toyota vehicles should be modified so that their brakes override out-of-control throttles.
Longtime legislators Mollohan, Rahall face challenges. American voters chose change in 2008.
President Barack Obama phoned Senate allies Saturday as two key senators predicted that embattled Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will be confirmed for a second term.
By DAVID ESPO and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama’s campaign to remake healthcare is barreling into the final days.Democrats, led by Obama, deployed this weekend to salvage an unpredictable Senate race in Massachusetts, while senior White House and congressional staff members in Washington hurry to finish work on …
Months ago, a delegation of Republican senators went to the White House with a request for President Barack Obama to take a more gradual approach to health care.He demurred, according to one official familiar with the meeting, saying that’s not what he promised when he ran for the White House.Now, with multiple trade-offs made, Obama and his …
Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar, stars of TLC’s “18 Kids and Counting,” recently welcomed their 19th child Josie Brooklyn, who weighed 1 pound, 6 ounces at birth.
For higher education, 2009 was a time of lofty goals and harsh realities, of major policy shifts in Washington and financial struggle on campuses nationwide.
The split between Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Mark Begich over health care mirrors the situation in the country, where Democrats and Republicans are acting like polar opposites.
US Senator Carl Levin applauded passage of the 871 billion dollar healthcare reform bill on Thursday morning.
The House broke Friday from a divisive debate on banking laws to applaud a military unit visiting the Capitol.
Hoyer: I’m ‘Disappointed’ In John McCain’s Flip Flop On Climate Change > > Posted By mesodude 4 hours, 22 minutes ago in Political News > During the 2008 presidential campaign, Sen.
Members of Congress are demanding emergency action to prevent Asian carp from invading the Great Lakes and devastating their $7 billion fishery.
The Obama administration’s pay czar is limiting the cash compensation for executives at companies that received the largest taxpayer bailouts to $500,000. The 25th through the 100th top earners at Citigroup, GMAC, American International Group and General Motors also must take more than half their compensation in stock, and at least half must be …
The top U.N. official in Afghanistan says he will step down early next year after a rocky two-year tenure marked by a fraud-marred national election and a deadly Taliban attack on U.N. employees.
Steamed about your health care coverage, or lack of it? A coalition of labor, civil rights and faith organizations want to hear your stories at a public hearing on health care reform at 6 p.m. today at United Steelworkers’ McBride Hall in Gary.
The break happened about 8 a.m. is about 50 feet from the corner of Baldwin Boulevard and Cantwell.
Pakistan’s prime minister Thursday signaled his country’s cautious response to President Barack Obama’s new policy for Pakistan and Afghanistan by declining to endorse the U.S.-led troop surge.
Rep. James L. Oberstar, D-Minn., said Wednesday that he would agree to a six-month extension of the existing highway spending program if the Senate and White House agree to use the time to craft new legislation to reform the Department of Transportation and provide money for a new six-year program.
Despite misgivings, members of Congress seem poised to back President Barack Obama’s plan to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan after getting assurances the commitment isn’t open-ended. The surge-and-exit strategy that Obama announced Tuesday night marks the largest expansion of the war since it began eight years ago.
A question about the Celtics seems inevitable as Stephen Pagliuca makes stops along the campaign trail that leads him from one end of the state to the other.
Kanjorski U.S. Rep. Paul E. Kanjorski, D-11, on Monday told the state Department of Environmental Protection to reject Hazleton Creek Properties’ application for a permit to use construction and demolition debris in the reclamation of Hazleton area abandoned mine land.
Published: Friday, November 13, 2009 at 8:35 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, November 13, 2009 at 8:35 a.m. Survivors and witnesses to the Pearl Harbor attack of Dec.
The Obama administration has met many of the border security benchmarks Congress set in 2007 as a prerequisite to immigration reform and now it’s time to change the law, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Friday.
But the 413-page tome doesn’t contain a single reference to the father of her grandson, soon-to-be nude online model Levi Johnston.
Rancher, business man and politico supreme Bruce King passed away overnight at his ranch in Stanley, New Mexico at age 85 after a bout with heart problems and a life of full of hard work, service and friendly good humor.
Senators tussled over the cost of climate legislation Tuesday with the leading author of the bill maintaining that while energy prices will increase, inaction on global warming would cause even worse economic and security problems.
President Barack Obama tours the DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center in Arcadia, Fla., today.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev. speaks about health care reform during a news conference Monday.
Though Roy Blunt is hoping Missourians and the press forget about his “guarantee” to deliver a comprehensive health care bill that “costs less and provides better care for the American people,” many members of his own caucus have not.
William Weld, Paul Cellucci, Jane Swift and Mitt Romney are slated to attend the event, which costs $250 per person for the general reception and $5,000 per person to attend a more private gathering with the former governors.
Liz Lauber, Todd Akin’s 2010 GOP primary opponent, is challenging Akin to “step up” and support the candidacy of the tea party-approved candidate in the special election for New York’s 23rd Congressional District.
A panel of lawmakers searching for ways to revitalize Ohio’s auto industry recommends the creation of a state auto development director.
