U.S. President Barack Obama has given his all-out support on the plan to have a mosque be erected near the World Trade Center — site of the 9/11 terrorist attacks where almost 3,00o people died when two planes hijacked by Muslim extremists crashed into the building that once stood there. During the annual White House [...]
President Barack Obama will sign the new college student loan program into law on Tuesday at Northern Virginia Community College. The overhaul will drop commercial banks out of the college student loan program, saving a lot of money for taxpayers, while banks lose billions of profit. “Year after year, we’ve seen billions of taxpayer dollars handed out [...]
The new health care bill’s approval in the House of Representatives marks a historic day for President Barack Obama and to all Democrats who supported the bill. On Sunday, with a vote of 219 for and 212 against, the House of Representatives approved the bill. In summary, the newly-approved health care reform gives 32 million Americans [...]
In an interview with CNN, former first lady Laura Bush praised President Barack Obama’s performance, saying he has done well considering the difficult conditions he has to work with. She defended Obama’s resolve to make a speech to the nation’s schoolchildren. ”I think there is a place for the president…to talk to schoolchildren and encourage their [...]
President Barack Obama spoke with a bit of emotion as he referenced his beloved grandmother during a health care debate in Grand Junction, Colorado. He challenged the debunked notion that Democratic efforts to reform the country’s health care would include “death panels.” “I just lost my grandmother last year. I know what it’s like to [...]
President Barack Obama expects to have a draft immigration bill in Congress by year’s end. He also said that lawmakers wouldn’t begin to seriously debate the issue until 2010. Obama acknowledged how difficult the immigration reform would be by saying, “Am I going to be able to snap my fingers and get this done? No. [...]
Sonia Sotomayor was sworn in as America’s first Hispanic Supreme Court justice. She is only the third female justice in the US Supreme Court’s 220-year history. She took a pair of judicial oath from Chief Justice John Roberts. The first was a private ceremony. The second was held in front of Sotomayor’s friends, family and [...]
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