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29 May 2014, 4:38 pm by Immigration Prof
From the Associated Press: President Barack Obama’s latest attempt to pressure House Republicans to act on immigration legislation will backfire and make action harder, a House committee chairman said Thursday. [read post]
28 May 2014, 8:48 am by WIMS
" – President Barack Obama <> EPA Adds Clothes Dryers to Energy Star Program, Increasing Energy Efficiency of New Appliances - If all residential clothes dryers sold in the U.S. meet these new requirements, the utility cost savings will grow to more than $1.5 billion each year and more than 22 billion pounds of annual greenhouse gas emissions would be prevented. [read post]
26 May 2014, 6:54 am by Embajador Microjuris al Día
Se espera que el presidente de los Estados Unidos, Barack Obama, firme la medida que otorga el galardón durante esta semana. [read post]
23 May 2014, 10:59 am by Tom Smith
President Barack Obama wants to talk about flexing his administrative and executive power to do more. [read post]
  President Barack Obama proposed to lift the ban on interstate highway tolls in his $302 billion surface transportation draft bill known as the Grow America Act, which would create an alternative source of funding for public-private partnerships to help states implement infrastructure projects and create jobs. [read post]
22 May 2014, 5:29 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Center for American Progress,  Joe Valenti | May 22, 2014: “In 2009, President Barack Obama signed into law the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility, and Disclosure Act, or Credit CARD Act. [read post]
22 May 2014, 1:44 pm by Sandy Levinson
  E.g., do any of you looking forward to McConnell's becoming Senate Majority Leader really and truly believe that that will make much of a difference, given Obama's retention of the veto power? [read post]
22 May 2014, 6:19 am by Kent Scheidegger
The Las Cruces [New Mexico] Sun-News reports:President Barack Obama signed a proclamation Wednesday formally designating nearly half a million acres of land in Doña Ana County as a national monument -- a move that comes after years of heated local debate over the proposal. [read post]
21 May 2014, 9:30 pm by Rena Steinzor
” Evidently, the recent push by industry and its allies in Congress to make regulation a dirty word has been so successful that the generally moderate Barack Obama felt compelled to adopt the right wing’s antiregulatory frame and add to the existing morass of regulatory lookback programs. [read post]
21 May 2014, 5:37 pm by Stuart Kaplow
Asbeck, founder and CEO of SolarWorld, issued an open letter to President Barack Obama requesting his “support for both the U.S. manufacturing and installation wings of the domestic solar industry as they confront trade aggression from China. [read post]
Meanwhile, President Barack Obama was slated to be the "great slayer of patent trolls. [read post]
20 May 2014, 3:20 pm by Cyrus Farivar
Ted Lieu (D-Torrance) was a California assembly member who campaigned for then-candidate Barack Obama. [read post]
20 May 2014, 4:39 am by Amy Howe
Briefly: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News observes that, “two years after the court upheld President Barack Obama’s health-care law and a year after it bolstered gay rights, the five Republican-appointed justices are voting together again in the highest-profile cases. [read post]
20 May 2014, 3:50 am by Immigration Prof
Some 550,000 young undocumented immigrants have received temporary protection from deportation and work authorization since President Barack Obama created the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in June 2012, according to new data released by US Citizenship and Immigration... [read post]
19 May 2014, 12:19 pm by David Kravets
The President Barack Obama administration said Monday that the signals intelligence unit of the Chinese military scored private secrets from Alcoa, Westinghouse, United States Steel, Allegheny Technologies, and a steelworker union among others. [read post]
19 May 2014, 7:06 am by Sean Gallagher
In a letter dated May 15, Cisco chairman and CEO John Chambers asked President Barack Obama to rein in the National Security Agency’s alleged program of intercepting and installing backdoors on network hardware being shipped to international customers. [read post]
18 May 2014, 5:59 pm by Tammy Binford
by Tammy Binford An April gathering that brought together President Barack Obama, three former presidents, and civil rights leaders marked the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a game-changing law that still guards against discrimination in the workplace and other aspects of life. [read post]
17 May 2014, 6:44 am by Mark S. Humphreys
Homeowners living in flood-prone areas are getting relief from big spikes in insurance costs under legislation President Barack Obama signed into law last Friday. [read post]