Obama, McCain cast their ballots Obama and his wife, Michelle, voted with their young daughters at their sides at Beulah Shoesmith Elementary School in Hyde Park, Ill. Other political news of note Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!' House Speaker John Boehner became animated Tuesday over the proposed Keystone Pipeline, castigating the Obama administration for not having approved the project yet
Find your members of Congress by clicking on your state on the map to the right or filling out the following form: Address Search: Enter your address to determine who represents you in Congress. As of July 21, 2015 there are 540 electronic contact addresses (of which 539 are Web-based contact forms), and 540 home pages known for the 540 members of the 114th Congress
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With the interfering voices of the American people out of the way, Obama was able to concentrate on consolidating his power which was really Obama's biggest priority, he could move on to our next biggest threat aka Joe Biden, in the most amusing way possible (he experimented with dummies for a while about this, and he eventually decided on stuffing him with fruit like a chicken until he burst). This gambit let Obama show his virtuosity at deflecting accusations, most often with the claim that his promises are "old news" and his accusers are old-fashioned, are bought off by industry, and cling to guns
Barack Obama - The New York Times
25, 2015 News Analysis; Pres Obama's victory in bill giving him enhanced power to negotiate trade agreements strengthens his position internationally and clears way for completing Trans-Pacific Partnership; open skirmishing within his own party was damaging, however, and he faces question of how he will move ahead with Congress. July 23, 2015, Thursday Op-Ed Contributor A New Approach to Africa By DAVID KAMPF Obama should become more active across the continent in the time he has left in office
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Bruce Rauner accusing Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan of purposely standing in the way of a budget deal in order to create enough chaos to force a tax increase
As the World Burns - The New Yorker
Then, suddenly, there was a new problem: Harry Reid, the Senate Majority Leader, said that he wanted to pass immigration reform before the climate-change bill. He had just one request: include in the climate legislation parts of a bill that Pickens had written, called the Natural Gas Act, a series of tax incentives to encourage the use of natural-gas vehicles and the installation of natural-gas fuelling stations
It seemed a risky gamble, coolly, nonchalantly, unsentimentally taken by the leader of a distant country, who, I would soon learn, was in the process of balancing out the powers in the Middle East and departing the region. Then, in June 2013, millions of Egyptians came back to Tahrir Square and other public spots across Egypt; Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, the head of the Egyptian armed forces at the time, rose to power
The bill, formerly known as the Stem Cell Research Act, was recently renamed to honor the memory of former President Ronald Reagan.The Ronald Reagan Biomedical Research Act specifically permits embryonic stem cell research in Illinois. This bill emanates from a desire that our children come to us when we have family matters, when our children are in trouble, that they not be fearful, that they not be afraid that they disappoint us, that they be open with us and loving toward us, and we toward them
Influenced by professors who pushed him to take his studies more seriously, Obama experienced great intellectual growth during college and for a couple of years thereafter. You can make it easier for us to review and, hopefully, publish your contribution by keeping a few points in mind: Encyclopaedia Britannica articles are written in a neutral, objective tone for a general audience
How Obama Transformed the Federal Judiciary - The New Yorker
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet Jeffrey Toobin has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1993 and the senior legal analyst for CNN since 2002. (A fourth Obama nominee, Sri Srinivasan, had been confirmed earlier in the year.) As the debate began, it became clear that few Republicans had any substantive objections to any of the nominees
But without our national and racial backbones how shall we stand erect? With quicksands as our foundation how shall we build? How shall we be true to ourselves if we have no selves? Our race is what we are; it is our form. If Rand Paul manages to accomplish taking down the Patriot Act, he has my respect, but I hold my respect in reserve as I have been lied to by the scum of the earth war criminals and human rights abusers for too long with their endless wars on drugs, poverty, poor brown nations and they do not cringe when napalm, cluster fuck bombs, drones and so on kill mothers and children
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Serra Sippel President, Center for Health and Gender Equity How Free Trade Can Lead to Healthy and Active Aging President Obama, Congressional Republican leaders, and foreign national leaders in the TPP should consider the theme of aging populations as they hammer out the deal's final details -- and try to win public favor. Byron Williams Columnist, author, and theologian Financial Reform Helping Protect Families From Another Devastating Crash The facts of the crisis also make clear that the impacts did not know partisan boundaries
Battle for the Senate: How the GOP did it - The Washington Post
This was no impromptu news conference but rather Republican staffers in disguise, trying to shock the candidates into realizing the intensity of what lay before them. Philip Rucker is a national political correspondent for The Washington Post, where he has reported since 2005.Robert Costa is a national political reporter at The Washington Post
(APPLAUSE) They imagined me going to the best schools in the land, even though they weren't rich, because in a generous America you don't have to be rich to achieve your potential. OBAMA: They know that parents have to teach, that children can't achieve unless we raise their expectations and turn off the television sets and eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white
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