Topic: Barack Obama
House Democratic leaders will have a straight up-or-down vote on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. Democratic lawmakers and an aide to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., say they've dropped plans for an indirect vote that would have relied on a legislative maneuver to ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama planned a Capitol Hill visit on Saturday to rally support on healthcare as Democrats in the House of Representatives tried to nail down the last votes to pass his sweeping overhaul. House Democratic leaders closed in on the 216 votes they need for final approval to the biggest changes in the $2.5 trillion U ...
Discontent is surging among some black advocates over President Barack Obama's refusal to target rising black unemployment, but many black residents in Charlotte, N.C., say they support his racially neutral approach to joblessness. As many as one in three black people are out of ...
