Advancing an unappealing agenda
The Battalion Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:14 PM PST
During his address to Congress last week, President Barack Obama called for the opposition to join him and the Democrats to pursue his agenda. It is clear their idea of partisanship is for conservatives and other skeptics to agree with them. That doesn't appear to be changing, and neither does their general unwillingness to listen to other ideas. |
Obama budget: Record spending, record deficit
The Conroe Courier Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:13 PM PST
WASHINGTON â€" Spelling out painful priorities, President Barack Obama urged Congress on Monday to quickly approve a huge new shot of spending for recession relief and job creation, part of a record $3.8 trillion budget that would boost the deficit beyond any in the nation’s history while only slowly beginning to put Americans back to work. |
Bank Bonds Lure TCW as Stocks Tumble, P&G Sells: Credit Markets
Bloomberg Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:11 PM PST
Feb. 2 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama’s proposals to limit the size of U.S. banks helped wipe out $430 billion of financial companies’ stock market value and also made their bonds irresistible to some of the nation’s biggest investors. |
Business owners ask Congress to start over on health care
The New Britain Herald Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:11 PM PST
Following President Barack Obama’s comments on health care legislation in his State of the Union address, the Connecticut Campaign for Responsible Health Reform met Thursday in Hartford. This group of small business owners called on Connecticut’s Congressional Delegation to “start over†on health care reform. |
Obama unveils budget for tough times
Philippine Daily Inquirer Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:09 PM PST
WASHINGTON â€" President Barack Obama has unveiled a budget pouring billions of dollars into nurturing the economic rebound and battling 10-percent unemployment, while taking aim at record deficits. |
Many now paying AMT won't feel Obama tax hikes
San Francisco Chronicle Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:09 PM PST
President Obama's proposed budget for fiscal 2011 would increase taxes on single people making more than roughly $200,000 and married couples with more than about $250,000 in income. However, many high-income people who are paying alternative minimum tax... Tax - Income - President of the United States - Alternative Minimum Tax - United States |
States Seeking To Ban Mandatory Health Coverage
CBS 3 Philadelphia Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:09 PM PST
Although President Barack Obama's push for a health care overhaul has stalled, conservative lawmakers in more than two-thirds of the states are forging ahead with constitutional amendments to ban government health insurance mandates. The proposals would assert a state-based right for people to pay medical bills from their own pocketbooks and prohibit penalties against those who refuse to carry ... |
Obama submits budget of 'hard choices'
Seattle Times Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:09 PM PST
President Obama declared in presenting his new 10-year budget proposal Monday that "our fiscal situation remains unacceptable," but he made the case for pursuing his ambitious domestic agenda despite facing swollen budget deficits for the foreseeable future. |
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