STIMULUS WATCH: Weatherizing program slow to start
KING5 Seattle Sun, 28 Mar 2010 01:13 AM PDT
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) â€" After a year of crippling delays, President Barack Obama's $5 billion program to install weather-tight windows and doors has retrofitted a fraction of homes and created far fewer construction jobs than expected. |
Financial aid for students is overhauled
Baltimore Sun Sun, 28 Mar 2010 01:12 AM PDT
More needy college students will have access to bigger Pell Grants, and future borrowers of government loans will have an easier time repaying them, under a vast overhaul of higher education aid that Congress sent last week to President Barack Obama. |
White House defends special appointments
Daily Record Sun, 28 Mar 2010 01:11 AM PDT
WASHINGTON (AP) â€" President Barack Obama's senior political adviser is defending a decision to do an end run around Congress on 15 appointments to federal boards and agencies. |
Obama: Loan changes overcome 'politics of moment'
Daily Record Sun, 28 Mar 2010 01:11 AM PDT
WASHINGTON (AP) â€" Big changes in the student loan program will help make college more affordable for students and their debt load more manageable after graduation, President Barack Obama says. |
GOP favors insurance plans
Times Leader Sun, 28 Mar 2010 01:04 AM PDT
WASHINGTON â€" Republicans were for President Barack Obama’s requirement that Americans get health insurance before they were against it. |
John McCain clarifies GOP won't help with Democrats' priorities
The Arizona Republic Sun, 28 Mar 2010 00:57 AM PDT
WASHINGTON - Sen. John McCain has softened comments he made early last week suggesting Republicans will not cooperate with Democrats for the rest of the year because of the way they rammed through President Barack Obama's controversial health-care-reform bill. |
Palin spars with hecklers, boosts McCain in Mesa
The Arizona Republic Sun, 28 Mar 2010 00:56 AM PDT
The maverick and the rogue teamed up one more time in Mesa Saturday to boost Sen. John McCain's re-election campaign and slam President Barack Obama's landmark health-care overhaul. |
Ready for reform?
The Michigan City News-Dispatch Sun, 28 Mar 2010 00:54 AM PDT
WASHINGTON â€" Summoned to success by President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled Congress approved historic legislation Sunday night extending health care to tens of millions of uninsured Americans and cracking down on insurance company abuses, a climactic chapter in the century-long quest for near universal coverage. |
Obama did not snub Israeli PM, says Whitehouse
The Malaysian Insider Sun, 28 Mar 2010 00:51 AM PDT
WASHINGTON, March 28 â€" US President Barack Obama did not give Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the cold shoulder when they met in the White House last week, a top Obama aid said today. Obama met the Israeli leader in the White House on Tuesday but did not dine with his visitor and, by keeping the talks closed to the media, also denied Netanyahu the courtesy of a photo-opportunity with ... |
Lucas explains impact of healthcare bill on Oklahoma
Sapulpa Daily Herald Sun, 28 Mar 2010 00:50 AM PDT
As the health care legislation is officially signed into law by President Obama, state governments and the American people begin to gear up for the implementation of the new legislation and what it might mean for the future. Many are concerned about the impact it will have on state budgets as states are forced to take on higher Medicaid costs. |
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