Tag: Barack Obama

President Obama is honoring Michael Jordan and others with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

White House announces 21 Medal of Freedom recipients

Gabby Morrongiello · November 16, 2016 7:57 pm

Amid Protests, Obama Urges Young People Not to Waver from ‘Lively, Open Debate’

Chris Deaton · November 16, 2016 7:37 pm

Far-left climate change activists want a moratorium placed on all drilling, especially in the Gulf of Mexico, but the administration doesn't appear to be going that far. (AP Photo)

Energy and Environment

Obama looks to stick Trump with his five-year drilling plan

John Siciliano · November 16, 2016 6:27 pm

"There's absolutely no reason for this information to be secret," Chris Stewart said when he introduced the bill in March. (AP Photo)

GOP pushes for more sunlight on federal ‘slush fund’

Pete Kasperowicz · November 16, 2016 4:34 pm

Presidential Pitchman: Obamacare ‘less than your cellphone bill,’ $75

Paul Bedard · November 16, 2016 3:36 pm

President Obama has enjoyed flexing the power of the presidential pen, issuing a record number of executive orders, rules, regulations and agency directives that circumvented that whole pesky democracy and compromise stuff. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Beltway Confidential

Trump will steamroll Obama’s ‘pen-and-phone’ legacy, and it’s Obama’s fault

Charles Sauer · November 16, 2016 2:23 pm

President Obama made the case for "open markets" in Greece on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama warns of dangers of fighting globalization

Sarah Bedford · November 16, 2016 1:08 pm

"Democracy is stronger than organizations like ISIL," President Obama said at the Stavropol Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

National Security

Obama urges collective response to terror, refugees

Sarah Bedford · November 16, 2016 12:38 pm

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and all House committee leaders are warning the Obama administration to cease and desist from issuing any remaining 11th-hour regulations. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Energy and Environment

GOP warns Obama agencies to scrap 11th-hour regs

John Siciliano · November 16, 2016 11:12 am

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said passage shows that Congress is ready to take a tougher stance on Iran than that of President Obama. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

National Security

House votes 419-1 to extend Iran sanctions

Pete Kasperowicz · November 15, 2016 10:24 pm

Editorial cartoons

Editorial cartoon: TPP nosedive

Washington Examiner · November 15, 2016 10:07 pm

Beltway Confidential

Obama twists the knife in Hillary Clinton’s disastrous campaign

Becket Adams · November 15, 2016 10:01 pm