Tag: Barack Obama

Rule expanded who must automatically be entered into the National Instant Criminal Background Check System. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

House votes to undo Obama-era gun control rule

Nicole Duran · February 2, 2017 10:36 pm

Alan Dershowitz wants Senate Dems to ask Neil Gorsuch about the Senate's treatment of Merrick Garland. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Beltway Confidential

Here’s one question Gorsuch won’t find embarrassing at all

David Freddoso · February 2, 2017 10:03 pm

House plans vote to kill rule that would require firms bidding on contracts to report labor violations. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

GOP moves to undo Obama contractor ‘blacklist’

Sean Higgins · February 2, 2017 7:06 pm

Sen. Cornyn has introduced a bill to repeal the implementation of the Independent Payment Advisory Board's annual proposal. (AP Photo/Sait Serkan Gurbuz)

GOP will try again to repeal Obamacare ‘death panels’

Susan Ferrechio · February 2, 2017 6:38 pm

The Trump administration authorized some transactions between U.S. companies and Russia's top security agency that had been shut down by two of President Obama's executive orders. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

National Security

Trump allows some transactions with Russian intelligence agency

Gabby Morrongiello · February 2, 2017 5:27 pm

The new wage floors include steps on the way to $15-an-hour minimum wages in California and New York. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Study: 2017 minimum wage hikes will cost 383,000 jobs by 2020

Joseph Lawler · February 2, 2017 10:00 am

Trump's efforts to revive speculation about illegal voting has distracted from his early victories. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump slashes regulation output by 70 percent

Pete Kasperowicz · February 2, 2017 5:01 am

President Trump has already promised to end his predecessor's campaign against coal. (AP Photo/Mauricio Medel)

Beltway Confidential

Republicans begin rollback of Obama’s war on coal

Philip Wegmann · February 2, 2017 12:58 am

House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., said he and President Trump have talked more in one month than he and former President Barack Obama did throughout the entire Obama presidency. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Ryan: I’ve spoken more to Trump in 1 month than I did to Obama in 8 years

Nicole Duran · February 1, 2017 11:21 pm

When Obama was briefed that the optimal time to launch the raid would be eight days after he was out of office, he deferred the decision to President Trump, almost as a —œprofessional courtesy,—? said one official. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

National Security

Pentagon sources: Obama did not reject plan for Yemen raid

Jamie McIntyre · February 1, 2017 9:49 pm

With the Antiquities Act of 1906, Congress sought to protect "historic landmarks, historic and prehistoric structures, and other objects of historic or scientific interest." (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, file)

Beltway Confidential

Trump should undo two of Obama’s illegal national monuments

William Perry Pendley · February 1, 2017 5:47 pm

Hillary Clinton's failed campaign team reportedly blames former President Barack Obama for their stunning loss last November. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Beltway Confidential

Wild: Clinton team blames Obama for election loss

Becket Adams · February 1, 2017 5:01 am