Tag: Barack Obama

Separation of Powers Takes Another Hit

Jeffrey H. Anderson · September 29, 2016 7:42 pm

President Obama on Thursday signed into law the spending bill that will keep the federal government open until Dec. 9. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Obama signs bill keeping government open until Dec. 9

Nicole Duran · September 29, 2016 7:23 pm

"What's true in kindergarten is true in the U.S. Congress … ignorance is not an excuse particularly when it comes to the safety of our service members and diplomats," presidential press secretary Josh Earnest said Thursday. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

White House compares senators to kindergartners on override vote

Susan Crabtree · September 29, 2016 6:56 pm

WH officials, lawmakers and former national security officials are among those traveling with Obama to Israel. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

National Security

Obama to speak at Peres funeral

Nicole Duran · September 29, 2016 6:16 pm

In its final form, the BABIES Act would limit putting changing tables in bathrooms in buildings controlled by the federal government. (Wikimedia Commons)

Senate sends diaper-change bill to Obama’s desk

Pete Kasperowicz · September 29, 2016 5:06 pm

Ben Cardin suggested that President Obama has avoided punishing Iran for helping Bashar Assad out of fear of disrupting the Iran nuclear agreement brokered last year. (AP Photo)

National Security

Senate Dems losing patience with Obama’s Syria policy

Joel Gehrke · September 29, 2016 4:37 pm

Reid said Republicans promised to "oppose everything that President Obama tried to do" the moment Obama took office. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Reid: GOP treated Obama with ‘unprecedented disrespect’

Susan Ferrechio · September 29, 2016 3:30 pm

—œA mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or a sick parent without running into hardship. And you know what? A father does too," President Obama said in his 2014 State of the Union address. (AP Photo)

Labor Department mandates sick leave for 660K workers

Susan Crabtree · September 29, 2016 3:04 pm

A Republican congressman said that the vote to override President Obama's veto of the 9/11 bill shows that the president's power is on the decline in his last few months in office. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

National Security

Steve King: Veto override shows Obama’s ‘declining’ power

Pete Kasperowicz · September 29, 2016 2:23 pm

Russia elevated itself from being a minor annoyance to being a leading cause of world instability. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel, pool, FILE)

National Security

Clinton’s lack of seriousness on Russia, like Obama’s, is deadly

Washington Examiner · September 29, 2016 4:01 am

President Obama Wednesday night said U.S. service members fight so that people like the 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick can express their views and take a knew during the national anthem to make a point. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

National Security

Obama: Our military fights so Kaepernicks can protest

Susan Crabtree · September 29, 2016 2:01 am

More than 70 Dems ask president to use authority to block drilling in Atlantic and Arctic oceans. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Energy and Environment

Lawmakers want Obama to block offshore drilling forever

John Siciliano · September 28, 2016 10:13 pm