Search for: "Barack obama" Results 1421 - 1440 of 20,494
Sort by Relevance | Sort by Date
RSS Subscribe: 20 results | 100 results
18 Mar 2019, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
” US Democratic presidential candidate Illinois Senator Barack Obama gives a speech at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on March 18, 2008. [read post]
15 Mar 2019, 2:00 pm
The reporting requirement, put in place by President Barack Obama, had many shortcomings, but it was still valuable. [read post]
14 Mar 2019, 10:17 am by Katie Culliton
In March 2014, then-President Barack Obama directed the Secretary of Labor to begin creating new federal overtime rules, and by June 2015, the DOL announced their proposed rule. [read post]
12 Mar 2019, 3:22 am by Scott Bomboy
President Barack Obama only used the veto twice in his first two years, and Congress didn’t override either veto. [read post]
11 Mar 2019, 9:30 pm by Adam J. White
For example, President Trump uses executive orders to direct agency policymaking discretion quite differently than President Reagan did—but quite similarly to the innovative way President Barack Obama used them. [read post]
11 Mar 2019, 7:27 am
Jeff Merkley of Oregon, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren.... a little less aggressive and less focused on identity issues and a little more willing to play nice with the Democratic Party establishment....The Progressive New Guard — Liberal on both economic and identity issues but also somewhat concerned about the “electability” of candidates and the appeal of ideas to the political center; generally rose to prominence after Barack Obama was elected president. [read post]
8 Mar 2019, 1:20 pm
-Mexico border and the 'droning of countries around the world' on Obama’s watch, she argues that the Democratic president operated within the same fundamentally broken framework as his Republican successor. 'We can’t be only upset with Trump. [read post]
8 Mar 2019, 3:30 am by Ed. Microjuris.com Puerto Rico
En el 2018, varios fondos de inversión, aseguradoras de inversiones y la Unión de Trabajadores de la Industria y Riego (UTIER) acudieron ante el Tribunal de Quiebra alegando que la Junta de Supervisión Fiscal (Junta), nombrada por el Presidente Barack Obama para dictar la política económica del Gobierno de Puerto Rico, al amparo de la Ley PROMESA fue constituida ilegalmente. [read post]
7 Mar 2019, 10:35 am by Nicholas Chan
The new order revokes the requirement put into place by Barack Obama’s executive order that was originally intended to increase transparency between the government and the public after the Obama administration received heavy criticism for its use of drone strikes. [read post]
6 Mar 2019, 7:29 am by Ezra Rosser
Every president from Ronald Reagan to Barack Obama has made cost-benefit analysis a key feature of the regulatory state as a result of the role played by the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, and the Trump administration has kept that structure in place. [read post]
5 Mar 2019, 7:02 am
Trina Vargo, who was a behind-the-scenes Washington player in Northern Ireland’s peace process, claims the couple tried to obtain a scholarship to Ireland for a boyfriend of their daughter, Chelsea, and later cut funding for the scholarship to punish Vargo for backing Barack Obama in the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination race. [read post]
4 Mar 2019, 8:02 pm
companies, including airlines and cruise companies, have forged business deals in Cuba since the easing of restrictions under Obama. [read post]
4 Mar 2019, 7:33 am by Tom Smith
Indeed, he is close to where President Barack Obama was at this time in his term. [read post]
2 Mar 2019, 5:55 am by Matthew L.M. Fletcher
    Previously, she served as a board member of the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation following a presidential appointment by President Barack Obama with Senate confirmation. [read post]
27 Feb 2019, 6:18 am
The two who won, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, wrapped their pragmatism in an idealistic narrative about the need for radical change....And yet, amid the party’s [recent] decisive shift leftward, pragmatism threatens once again to smother ambitious new policies in the crib....It's a bad day for baby-killing metaphors. [read post]
26 Feb 2019, 8:13 am by Kevin Kaufman
Presidents Clinton, Bush, and Obama all made USA-style proposals, albeit with different names.[8] Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) and Representative Dave Brat (R-VA) introduced the Universal Savings Account Act in 2015[9] and 2017.[10] The legislation would have allowed anyone 18 or older to open a USA and contribute up to $5,500 a year, after tax, and to withdraw for any purpose, without taxes or penalties. [read post]
25 Feb 2019, 7:21 am by Daniel Philpott
Why we should dare to ask the question.In June 2009, Barack Obama, early in his first term as President of the United States, delivered a most unusual speech in Cairo, Egypt. [read post]
24 Feb 2019, 1:06 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
But the center, which will cost an estimated $500 million, will also differ from the complexes built by Barack Obama’s predecessors in another way: It won’t actually be a presidential library. [read post]
23 Feb 2019, 8:57 am by Walter Olson
“also said she supported reparations for black Americans impacted by slavery — a policy that experts say could cost several trillion dollars, and one that Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and many top Democrats have not supported. [read post]
20 Feb 2019, 9:05 pm by Dan Flynn
I do understand David’s disappointments with the likes of Donald Trump and Barack Obama. [read post]