All posts tagged "Obama"

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  Trump WH to point out efforts to undo Obama regulations

  White House says regulations circumvented Congress in the first place and cost American businesses and the economy billions of dollars.

  • Posted October 2, 2017
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  Big unwind begins: Republicans target crisis financial rules

  WASHINGTON — Emboldened by a business-friendly president, Republicans in Congress are moving to unwind the stricter regulations that took effect after the 2008 financial crisis and Great Recession. A House committee takes up legislation Wednesday that would...

  • Posted April 25, 2017
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  House GOP targets Obama-era rule on public lands

  Lawmakers have begun debate on a measure repealing a regulation that would require the Bureau of Land Management to consider climate change

  • Posted February 7, 2017
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  With Unity Elusive, GOP Talks More of Repairing Health Law

  The GOP triumphantly shoved a budget through Congress three weeks ago that gave committees until Jan. 27 to write bills dismantling the law and substituting a Republican plan

  • Posted February 3, 2017
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  House GOP Aims to Scrap Obama Rule on Gun Background Checks

  The House passed the gun resolution on Wednesday and Senate approval on Thursday will send the measure to Trump for his signature

  • Posted February 2, 2017
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  US Sent $221 Million to Palestinians in Obama’s Last Hours

  The aides said written notification dated Jan. 20 was sent to Congress just hours before Donald Trump took the oath of office

  • Posted January 23, 2017
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  With no deal on convicted killer, police slam US-Cuba pact

  TRENTON, N.J. — The head of New Jersey’s state police has criticized a law enforcement deal reached between the U.S. and Cuba, because it doesn’t require the return of a woman convicted of killing a state trooper....

  • Posted January 20, 2017
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  Obama issues warning on 1st anniversary of Iran nuclear deal

  President-elect Donald Trump, who takes office on Friday, vowed at times during the presidential campaign either to walk away from the deal or to renegotiate it

  • Posted January 16, 2017
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  Child’s play: Lego Master Builders show work at White House

  he seven masters at the U.S. headquarters of Lego Systems in Enfield had them designed, built from more than 200,000 Lego pieces and in a van to Washington in time for the unveiling.

  • Posted December 22, 2016
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  Obama to Trump: Stand Up to Putin and Russia

  BERLIN — Offering pointed foreign policy advice to his successor, President Barack Obama expressed hope Thursday that President-elect Donald Trump will stand up to Russia when it deviates from U.S. “values and international norms” and not simply...

  • Posted November 17, 2016