WASHINGTON, Jan. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- This week President Obama announced the appointment of Cecilia Munoz as Director of the Domestic Policy Council. She is the first Latina to hold this position, which oversees policy development on a wide range of domestic issues, including those most important to the HNBA and its membership. The HNBA has had the pleasure of working with Ms. Munoz throughout her distinguished career, and our community has benefitted from commitment to justice and to improving conditions for the broader Latino community. Moreover, we are incredibly proud to have her as the first Latina to serve in this role and we commend the President for his wise choice in this appointment. Ms. Munoz has dedicated her professional life to serving our nation, in parti...
WASHINGTON -- Doubted and deeply in need of a comeback, President Barack Obama had a political dream week: a historic remaking of America's health care system, an overhaul of how students pay for college and a groundbreaking deal with Russia to shrink nuclear arsenals. The biggest foreign and domestic policy victories of Obama's presidency positioned him to keep swinging big. He has fresh results to back up his argument that persistence pays. The White House's thinking is that the burst of success, particularly in extending health coverage to millions more people, will carry over to other issues and show lawmakers, and perhaps foreign leaders, the value of sticking with Obama.
WASHINGTON - Doubted and deeply in need of a comeback, President Barack Obama had a political dream week: a historic remaking of America's health care system, an overhaul of how students pay for college and a groundbreaking deal with Russia to shrink nuclear arsenals. The biggest foreign and domestic policy victories of Obama's presidency positioned him to keep swinging big. He has fresh results to back up his argument that persistence pays. The White House's thinking is that the burst of success, particularly in extending health coverage to millions more people, will carry over to other issues and show lawmakers, and perhaps foreign leaders, the value of sticking with Obama.
WASHINGTON - Doubted and deeply in need of a comeback, President Barack Obama had a political dream week: a historic remaking of America's health care system, a vast overhaul of how students pay for college and a groundbreaking deal with Russia to shrink nuclear arsenals. The biggest foreign and domestic policy victories of Obama's presidency positioned him to keep swinging big. The White House's thinking is that the burst of success, particularly in extending health coverage to millions more people, will carry over to other issues and show lawmakers, and perhaps foreign leaders, the value of sticking with Obama.
America is in debt past its eyeballs. Unemployment remains stuck near double digits. Small and large businesses, unions and insurers are clamoring for Obamacare waivers in droves. Jihadists are making a mockery of homeland security. So, what's one of the Obama administration's top domestic policy agenda items this month? Combating distracted drivers. What? You missed the Million Anti-Distracted Drivers Protest March on Washington and the Great Grassroots Groundswell for federal intervention on our highways and byways? You weren't the only one.
... where, why, and how legislative and even policy successes turned into political failures that ende... exclusively to the economy and other domestic policy issues. Popular disaffection with the Iraq ...
WASHINGTON - The Senate failed Tuesday to repeal or ease an arcane tax reporting provision of the new health-care law, leaving millions of businesses in the lurch for now. It was an inconclusive ending to an early skirmish over repealing part of President Obama's signature domestic policy achievement. But it signaled battles to come if Republicans gain control of Congress in the midterm elections this fall.
With oil prices surging above $100 a barrel yesterday, consumers are realizing they will be paying a heavy price at the pump for the unrest in the Middle East. A perfect storm of foreign and domestic policy choices by the Obama administration has paved the way for European-style energy prices to arrive on these shores. Far from being alarmed, President Obama sees the prospect of $8 a gallon gas as an opportunity. When it comes to energy, the White House has sought to augment government controls to prevent the "long-term threat of climate change, which if left unchecked could result in violent conflict, terrible storms, shrinking coastlines and irreversible catastrophe," in Mr. Obama's words. Making energy more expensive is exactly what the administration's "cap and trade" scheme is mean...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.), chief negotiator for the Democrats in U.S. Senate talks on financial regulation reform, said on Friday [March 5] he was uncertain whether bipartisan support for a compromise bill could be achieved. With one of President Barack Obama's top domestic policy priorities in the balance, Mr. Dodd sounded wary but hopeful following weeks of discussions that have snagged on a proposal to create a new financial consumer watchdog.
The economy is likely to get worse before it gets better. Full recovery will not happen immediately," [Barack Obama] said. But with a hint of optimism, he added, "we can work our way out of this crisis because we have done it before. In addition to [Timothy Geithner], he added three others to his economic team, including Melody Barnes as director of the Domestic Policy Council. Prior to serving as Obama's senior domestic policy advisor during the campaign, [EVAN BARNES] previously served as Chief Counsel to Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) and the head of policy for the Center for American Progress. With the federal government having voted to approve a $20 billion rescue to banking giant Citigroup while considering a similar plan to automobile makers Ford, Chrysler and General Mo...
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