ACCRA, Ghana -- President Barack Obama isn't descended from slaves; his father was from Kenya, his mother from Kansas. However, his visit to Ghana, where slaves once were captured and shipped to America, could be an emotional trek, particularly for first ...Read More
WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is to assure Israel on Monday that the Obama administration's commitment to its security and future is "rock solid" despite a severe diplomatic dispute that emerged this month.
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President Barack Obama's remarks on health care overhaul, delivered Sunday after the House passed the legislation: Good evening, everybody. Tonight, after nearly 100 years of talk and frustration, after decades of trying, and a year of sustained effort and debate, the ...Read More
WASHINGTON -- Capping a long day and a consuming political journey, President Barack Obama celebrated the passage of health care legislation with hugs, high fives and an emboldened attitude. Said the president to the nation, "Tonight, we answered the call ...Read More
WASHINGTON -- A transformative health care bill is headed to President Barack Obama for his signature as Congress takes the final steps in Democrats' improbable and history-making push for near-universal medical coverage.
On the cusp of succeeding where numerous past congresses ...Read More
WASHINGTON - With his party rallying around him on health care, President Barack Obama is now assured, whatever the ultimate cost, of going down in history as one of the handful of presidents who found a way to reshape the ...Read More
President Obama's remarks on health care overhaul
President Barack Obama's remarks on health care overhaul, delivered Sunday after the House passed the legislation:
Good evening, everybody. Tonight, after nearly 100 years of talk and frustration, after decades of trying, and a year ...Read More
March 22 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. House passed the most sweeping health-care legislation in four decades, rewriting the rules governing medical industries and ensuring that tens of millions of uninsured Americans will get medical coverage. Yesterday's 219-212 vote marks the biggest ...Read More
Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California holding the gavel used to pass Medicare Reform, laughs as she walks across the street and into the U.S. Capitol as the House prepares to vote on health care reform on Sunday. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)David ...Read More
DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent WASHINGTON - Summoned to success by President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled Congress approved historic legislation Sunday night extending health care to tens of millions of uninsured Americans and cracking down on insurance company abuses, a climactic ...Read More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama rallied his fellow Democrats in the House of Representatives to pass his plan to revamp the $2.5 trillion U.S. healthcare industry on Sunday, scoring a huge, long-fought victory over the passionate objections of rival ...Read More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats in Congress who passed historic legislation on Sunday to revamp the U.S. healthcare system face a new challenge over the next seven months: convincing voters it's a good deal.
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WASHINGTON -- The initial blush of President Barack Obama's health care triumph immediately gives way to a sober political reality - he must sell the landmark legislation to an angry and unpredictable electorate, still reeling from the recession.
Voters may not ...Read More
March 21 (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives approved a sweeping $940 billion healthcare overhaul on Sunday in a two-step process that sends a Senate version of the bill to President Barack Obama for his signature and a package ...Read More
March 21 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. House passed the most sweeping U.S. health-care legislation in four decades, rewriting the rules governing medical industries and ensuring that tens of millions of uninsured Americans will get medical coverage. The 219-212 vote marks the ...Read More
TEHRAN: Iran's supreme leader said on Sunday that US President Barack Obama was not trustworthy despite his message to Iran on the occasion of the new Persian year, state media reported. "The US president's message speaks of normalizing relations but in ...Read More
March 22 (Bloomberg) -- If you want a glimpse of where Barack Obama's vision of American government is taking us, have a look at what is happening to Toyota Motor Corp., the biggest victim so far of the president's war ...Read More
WASHINGTON (AP) - Sensing victory, President Barack Obama is planning to make a statement to the nation Sunday night after the House takes its final vote on health care legislation. The White House announced late Sunday afternoon that Obama would speak ...Read More
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's departure for Washington Sunday night marks a fresh chance to repair the frayed personal ties between the Israeli leader and U.S. President Barack Obama. In front of the cameras in Israel on Sunday, special Mideast envoy George ...Read More
View full sizeAssociated PressUnder a picture of the late Iranian revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, delivers his speech in a public gathering at the shrine of Shiites' saint Imam Reza at the city of Mashhad northeastern ...Read More
President Barack Obama has announced plans to issue an executive order assuring that health care overhaul legislation would not change the restrictions on federal money for abortion.
White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer said the order provides safeguards to ensure that ...Read More
