Health care push could shove aside jobs
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s furious, final push to get a health care bill passed threatens to shove aside the message he promised would top his list this year: creating jobs.
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Obama greenlights program to promote US as tourism destination for international travelers
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama has signed a bill creating a program to promote the U.S. as a premier tourism destination for international travelers.
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Extension of SBA Recovery Lending Programs Will Support $1.8 Billion in Small Business Lending
WASHINGTON—-President Barack Obama signed legislation Tuesday extending until March 28 the U.S. Small Business Administration’s ability to provide small business loans that are enhanced with special provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act , including a higher guarantee of SBA-backed loans [...]
Bottom line on health care summit: Dems push ahead
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama strongly signaled that Democrats will move forward on a health care overhaul with or without Republicans, preparing his party for a fight whose political outcome will rest with voters in November.
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Obama to Republicans: ‘Let’s get this done’
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Saturday he is ready to compromise with Republicans on health care if they are serious about it, but that an overhaul must go forward.
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Bottom line on health care summit: Democrats push ahead
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama strongly signaled that Democrats will move forward on a health care overhaul with or without Republicans, preparing his party for a fight whose political outcome will rest with voters in November. Delivering his closing argument…
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Obama, Republicans clash on health care overhaul in rare TV summit, little hope of a deal
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama and Republicans clashed over his plan to overhaul U.S. health care in an extraordinary daylong televised debate that offered little hope for a compromise on an issue that could shape Obama’s legacy.
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Obama Health Care Summit: LATEST NEWS
What’s Your Reaction? WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and his Democratic allies argued for sweeping health care overhaul Thursday in an extraordinary live-on-TV summit with Republicans who want far more modest changes.
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Obama invites host of lawmakers from both parties to health care summit Thursday
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama will hold a televised bipartisan summit Thursday on health care as he tries to keep his overhaul effort alive. The White House has invited 22 high-ranking lawmakers to the meeting at Blair House, across the street from the [...]
Obama may be key part of this health care plan
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Monday launched a last-ditch effort to revive health care legislation that’s unlikely to gain Republican support but may restore Democratic momentum for the bill by placing the president squarely at the center of the messy process of drafting legislation.
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