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8 Apr 2014, 8:05 am
President Barack Obama and three former presidents will be among the speakers in Austin starting today as part of the LBJ Presidential Library Civil Rights Summit, which marks the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. [read post]
6 Apr 2014, 11:00 am
Flickr user: Light Brigading President Barack Obama says he wants Congress to adopt legislation that would end the National Security Agency's bulk collection of telephone metadata, a surveillance initiative exposed by whistleblower Edward Snowden. [read post]
6 Apr 2014, 10:01 am
At the White House Tuesday, President Barack Obama will sign two new executive actions on equal pay as Senate Democrats move for a show-vote on the Paycheck Fairness Act — launching Democrats’ first large-scale coordinated message effort ahead of this year’s midterms.One of the new executive orders on Tuesday, Equal Pay Day, will prohibit federal contractors from retaliating against workers who discuss their salaries — a move one White… [read post]
6 Apr 2014, 9:58 am
President Barack Obama will movethis week to increase the transparency of U.S. federalcontractors pay practices regarding men’s and women’s earnings,according to a White House official. [read post]
6 Apr 2014, 7:05 am
AP reports immigration advocates and supporters rallied Saturday in cities across the country in a renewed effort to push President Barack Obama to put a freeze on deportations. [read post]
4 Apr 2014, 10:10 am
On April 1, 2014, President Barack Obama signed into law a bill (H.R. 4302) extending the enforcement delay of the two-midnight rule. [read post]
4 Apr 2014, 6:45 am
Last week, a group of advocacy groups sent President Barack Obama [official website] a letter [text, PDF] urging him to declassify the documents. [read post]
3 Apr 2014, 9:01 pm
And the movement even has a manual: Impeachable Offenses: The Case for Removing Barack Obama from Office. [read post]
3 Apr 2014, 9:08 am
Haole is the word for white.King: Oh, okay.How long can you work in media, work with Oprah, with all the racial issues examined on Oprah's show, including, presumably, all the tales of Barack Obama growing up in Hawaii, and never learn the word "haole"? [read post]
2 Apr 2014, 2:08 pm
And encouragingly, the Senate immigration reform bill—endorsed by President Barack Obama—passed last year would provide appointed counsel to those with designated mental disabilities, children, and additional vulnerable immigrants. [read post]
2 Apr 2014, 8:42 am
[JURIST] Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] on Wednesday urged the administration of US President Barack Obama [official website] to endorse the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty [text, PDF], which flatly prohibits land mines and requires their removal. [read post]
1 Apr 2014, 6:49 am
That won't mean 7 million people actually enrolled in health insurance, but it will certainly be a marketing coup for President Barack Obama's administration.Nonetheless, as I wrote last week, there's still an immense amount we don't know. [read post]
1 Apr 2014, 12:05 am
In a stunning bipartisan agreement, President Barack Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder, IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chair Darrell Issa and Ranking Member Elijah Cummings committed to aggressively pursue investigations into the IRS's targeting of conservative groups in advance of the 2012 presidential election.... [read post]
31 Mar 2014, 8:25 am
I would like to talk to you today about Valerie Jarrett, her background, her relationship with Barack Obama, and her influence in the Obama White House. [read post]
28 Mar 2014, 11:52 am
The federal minimum wage has been $7.25 per hour since 2009, although President Barack Obama has called for an increase. [read post]
27 Mar 2014, 9:30 pm
President Barack Obama signed a bill to ease rate increases in the national flood insurance program. [read post]
27 Mar 2014, 11:45 am
Surveying the fall in support for the governments of Barack Obama, New York City's progressive Mayor Bill de Blasio and France's Socialist President François Hollande, a diagnosis of the current... [[ This is a content summary only. [read post]
27 Mar 2014, 11:10 am
The White House President Barack Obama has said he wants to shut down the telephone surveillance program that has been the subject of intense controversy since it was revealed in top-secret documents published last summer. [read post]
27 Mar 2014, 9:53 am
” Pope Francis said as he warmly shook hands and greeted President Barack Obama in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace on the morning of March 27, for their first meeting ever, during which – then and in a subsequent meeting with senior Vatican officials, “views were exchanged” on international questions, including those relating to conflict and peace, collaboration between Church and State, and issues of particular interest to the Church in the USA. [read post]
27 Mar 2014, 8:55 am
Bush and then celebrations of Barack Obama. [read post]
