Obama White House Meeting with McCain Signals Thaw in Frosty Relations
WASHINGTON -- John McCain may not have emerged from a private meeting in the Oval Office today as Barack Obama's BFF but the two former presidential rivals appear on friendlier terms than they have been for awhile. Amid chaos in Egypt and a monster blizzard in the Midwest, the president took time out of his packed schedule to meet for 30 minutes behind closed doors at the White House with the Arizona Republican. "Senator McCain and the President had a productive meeting on a range of issues, including the situation in the Middle East, immigration reform and border security, trade, and ...
Egyptian Crisis Biggest Foreign Test Yet for Obama Administration
WASHINGTON -- A week of protests in Egypt neared a climax as a million people prepared to march in Cairo and the army vowed to recognize "the legitimacy of the people's demands," all but spelling the end of President Hosni Mubarak's iron-fisted rule and signaling the start of a new strategic relationship for the United States. "Orderly transition means change," said White House spokesman Robert Gibbs, explaining what Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meant when she said the United States was "ready to help with the kind of transition that will lead to greater political and economic ...
Did National Journal Break Embargo on State of the Union Speech?
WASHINGTON -- Call it a broken embargo, a leak or a scoop but when the National Journal posted the full text of President Obama's State of the Union speech nearly two hours before he was scheduled to deliver it Tuesday night, the media world noticed. Indeed, for a wonkish compendium revered inside the Washington beltway but hardly noticed out in the heartland, National Journal found itself a red-hot trending topic on Twitter after it posted the text at 7:14 p.m. Eastern. "That's something you usually see Justin Bieber doing. People were genuinely interested," said Taylor West, spokeswoman ...
State of the Union Reaction Falls Along Party Lines
Reaction to Tuesday night's State of the Union address, the most-wired ever and perhaps the most measured and mild in memory, echoed a predictable plethora of previews and prebuttals that fell along party lines. Republicans, led officially by their resident budget guru and in an unsanctioned response from their tea party wing, recited their vision for smaller government through spending cuts. Democrats offered their endorsements of the president's plan and called for bipartisan buy-in from the GOP. Related Stories State of the Union: Obama Calls Investment in ...
Three Democrats Who Voted to Repeal Health Care Law
WASHINGTON -- Republicans in the House didn't need help from Democrats to repeal the health care reform law but they got a little anyway. Three Democrats voted against their party in the mostly symbolic vote: -- Dan Boren of Oklahoma -- Mike McIntyre of North Carolina -- Mike Ross of Arkansas All three are members of the Blue Dog coalition, a group of moderate Democrats from conservative districts. They were among 39 Democrats who voted against their party nearly a year ago when it first passed the historic health care overhaul. Of the 30 Democrats who voted no and ran for re-election, ...
House Passes Repeal of Health Care Law In Symbolic Vote
WASHINGTON -- House Republicans voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to repeal the historic health care reform law in a largely symbolic exercise to appease the tea party movement and keep a campaign promise that helped them retake the majority in November. The 245 to 189 vote fell sharply along party lines. No Republicans voted against the bill. Three Democrats voted to repeal the law. Even as lawmakers cast their votes on the provocatively named "Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act," the measure was as good as dead. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called it, "nothing more than ...
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