Tag: Barack Obama

President Barack Obama signs an Executive Order creating the White House Council on Women and Girls, Wednesday, March 11, 2009, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Assessing the need for a Council on Women and Girls is in part about good stewardship. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Maybe it’s time for the White House Office of Girls and Women to go

Patrice Onwuka · July 4, 2017 4:01 am

Justice Department told the court it would rethink the minimum salary a worker must make before he is deemed "managerial" and not eligible for overtime pay. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump administration will rewrite Obama-era overtime rule

Sean Higgins · July 3, 2017 9:17 pm

$Appeals court rules Scott Pruitt cannot delay implementation of regulations meant to limit methane emissions oil and natural gas frackers. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)$ Energy and Environment

Trump’s EPA suffers court defeat on Obama methane rules

John Siciliano · July 3, 2017 7:26 pm

Gas prices have dropped to the lowest July 4th level since 2005, says Gasbuddy.com. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Washington Secrets

Gas prices plummet, just $1.95 in DC area, lowest for July 4th since 2005

Paul Bedard · July 3, 2017 4:10 pm

During the Obama era, the NLRB morphed into a crusading mini-legislature seeking to slow the natural demise of labor unions. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Make the NLRB less great again

Washington Examiner · July 3, 2017 4:01 am

Judge Merrick Garland, former President Barack Obama's choice to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court, was denied hearings and a vote by Republicans. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Obama staff thought Merrick Garland’s Supreme Court nomination was political: Emails

Ryan Lovelace · July 3, 2017 4:01 am

Obama working behind the scenes to rebuild Democratic Party

Todd Shepherd · July 2, 2017 5:08 pm

Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris climate agreement, months after Obama's team raced to finalize an international climate accord before he left office. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

Energy and Environment

Obama knocks Trump: ‘Temporary absence’ of US climate leadership

Joel Gehrke · July 1, 2017 6:18 pm

"He's been a good energy president," Manchin said of Trump on Fox News on Thursday. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Energy and Environment

Sen. Joe Manchin: Trump is a ‘good energy president’

Daniel Chaitin · June 29, 2017 9:01 pm

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and eight other state attorneys general, along with Republican Idaho Gov. Butch Otter, are urging the Trump administration to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival Program. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

10-state coalition threatens lawsuit if Trump doesn’t end DACA

Kelly Cohen · June 29, 2017 8:56 pm

Photographer Pete Souza has been trolling Trump for months. (Pete Souza Twitter)

Obama photographer Pete Souza trolls Trump over Mika Brzezinski face-lift tweet

Sean Langille · June 29, 2017 6:13 pm

Former President Barack Obama walks during his visit to Prambanan Temple in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Obama and his family are currently on vacation in the country where he lived for several years as a child. (AP Photo)

How about never, Mr. Obama

Washington Examiner · June 29, 2017 2:34 pm