Mar 24 Reports: U.S., Russia Strike Deal on Arms Control President Obama speaks with Russian President Dmitri Medvedev during meetings in Singapore in November. (Photo by Saul Loeb /AFP/Getty Images.) The United States and Russia, which together control more than 90 percent of the world's nuclear weapons, have agreed… Continue reading
Mar 24 Report Slams Obama Effort to Stem Foreclosures By Jason Breslow The Obama administration's $50 billion effort to plug the nation's home foreclosure crisis has fallen short of expectations and may ultimately prove to "be of questionable value." That's the conclusion of a scathing report released late Tuesday by the… Continue reading
Mar 24 Debate Over Value of Yuan Heats Up in Washington The long-running debate over the value of China's currency is heating up in Washington. Last week, senators from both parties introduced a bill that would compel the Obama administration to confront China over the undervalued yuan, which many… Continue reading
Mar 23 California Republicans Vying for Chance to Replace Boxer in U.S. Senate By Spencer Michels Updated 8:12pm ET California Sen. Barbara Boxer appears to be in political trouble, but as she always reminds audiences and interviewers, she's been in trouble before, and has always emerged a winner. I remember her running for supervisor… Continue reading
Mar 23 Politico Editor: Health Reform Push Will Reverberate in 2010 Elections By Hari Sreenivasan As we start to look closer at the political fallout from health care reform, Politico White House Editor Craig Gordon spoke with us Tuesday about how the legislative battle over the bill in Congress will now shift to a… Continue reading
Mar 23 Pay Czar Caps Compensation at Five Bailed-Out Firms Kenneth Feinberg, the Obama administration's pay czar, announced Tuesday that he will cut 2010 salaries for top executives at five companies that received extraordinary bailout assistance from the government at the height of the financial crisis. The highest-paid… Continue reading
Mar 23 What You Should Know About Health Care Reform: Two Views President Obama signed health care reform into law in a White House ceremony Tuesday. Two players in the debate over reform offer their views on what Americans need to know about the bill. Continue reading
Mar 23 President Obama Signs Health Reform Into Law By Lea Winerman _pap_embed_custom('news01s3d09qe42',482,304,""); President Obama on Tuesday signed health care reform into law, in front of a cheering crowd of lawmakers and Americans who will be affected by the bill. "Today, after almost a century of trying, today after over a… Continue reading
Mar 23 Q&A: Norm Ornstein on the Senate and the Reconciliation Vote on Health Care As President Obama prepares to sign health care reform into law, the U.S. Senate still has steps to take to consider a package of revisions to the legislation - a promise made to House Democrats who wanted changes made to… Continue reading
Mar 23 Tuesday: Obama Set to Sign Health Bill, Meet With Israel's Netanyahu President Barack Obama is set to put into law the most sweeping piece of social legislation in decades Tuesday when he puts his signature on the health care overhaul bill in a White House ceremony. After the ceremony at… Continue reading