After Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the U.S. forces’ commander in Afghanistan, criticized President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and others White House big shots in a Rolling Stone magazine interview, he was summoned back to the United States for a confrontation with the president. Defense Secretary Robert Gates gave the order to McChrystal. White House [...]
After Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed a contentious immigration bill into a state law, President Barack Obama raised apprehensions that it could infringe on the civil rights of people and ordered the Justice Department to examine law. The bill will take effect in three months. It will require migrants to show documents to prove their [...]
Fearing that oil drilling in Virginia may cause damage to Chesapeake Bay and resorts in Maryland, environmentalists protested the announcement that President Barack Obama supports the plan. The plan calls for oil and natural gas platforms to be put up along the coasts of Virginia, the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska. “This is not a [...]
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 [...]
Alleging that it is unconstitutional, attorneys general belonging to the Republican Party coming from 13 states have taken legal action against the federal government to try to derail the colossal remodeling of the health-care system. They filed the lawsuit in the federal court in Pensacola right away after President Barack Obama signed the health-care bill [...]
The Democrats in the Senate still have a lot of things to do after President Barack Obama signs the health care bill into law. The president’s party will discuss the budget reconciliation bill plus the last health-care revisions and the federal student loan programs. The debate may begin on the afternoon of Tuesday. Meanwhile, the [...]
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 [...]
The U.S. House of Representatives will vote on a historic law Sunday meant to bring health insurance to over 30 million citizens who don’t have any. Democratic Party leaders worked hard to get a minimum 216 votes necessary to pass legislation even as protesters demonstrated outside the Capitol. President Barack Obama pleaded to members of [...]
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