The top Senate Democrat, majority leader Harry Reid made it official today there will not be a vote by the full Senate on revamping health care until after the August Congressional recess rather than before as President Obama had hoped. At a town ha...
President Obama says the US is still on track to pull all troops out of Iraq by the end of 2011. His comments came following an Oval Office meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki today. NPR's Don Gonyea reports. The message from both Mr....
President Obama remains on the offensive today in terms of defending his health care overhaul plan, saying that critics of the package are working what he called a familiar Washington Script that favors politics over policy. President accused oppone...
President Obama again called for action on his proposed health care overhaul plan, saying the government can revamp the current health care system in a way that does not add to the deficit over the next ten years. The president paid a visit to a Was...
White House budget director Peter Orszag is defending President Obama's plan to overhaul the nation's healthcare system and Mr. Obama's August target for passage of legislation by Congress. Some lawmakers from both parties are saying the bills are c...
President Obama is trying to build public support for his plan to overhaul the nations health care system to help counter the concerns being expressed by some lawmakers including a number of Democrats about how to pay for the proposal. Mr Obama says...
President Obama speaking at the White House today said healthcare legislation will clear Congress this year and the President said in light of new concerns about the cost of a healthcare overhaul, some decisions about cost cutting should be turned o...
Supreme Court Justice nominee Sonia Sotomayor has completed her testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Now legal experts, civil rights advocates and complainers from one of her former cases are before the panel. NPR's Audie Cornish reports...
Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor held her ground through another day of intense questioning by members of the Senate Judiciary Committee today. President Obama's pick to replace retiring Justice David Souter refused to be drawn out on the abort...
In her first day of questioning, Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor explained controversial statement she has made about the role of race and ethnicity playing in judging. She rejected accusation she allows her background to influence her decisio...
