Freshman GOP Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) did not oppose President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty in her State of the Union response on Tuesday evening. Ernst claimed that the “new Republican Congress you just elected” has “heard the message you sent
The White House has announced that President Obama will visit Selma on the day that went down in history as “Bloody Sunday.”
During his State of the Union address, Obama recalled his glorious 2004 speech in Boston at the Democratic National Convention that nominated Sen. John Kerry for president.
One of the boldest claims made in Obama’s State of the Union speech tonight was his assertion that, thanks to his foreign policy, the world had stopped the advance of Islamic State terrorists in Iraq and Syria.
President Obama challenged those who question climate change during his State of the Union address, pointing out that critics frequently “dodged” questions about the reality of climate change by saying that they weren’t scientists.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) delivers a response to President Barack Obama’s 2015 State of the Union address. Senator Paul prescribes several policy changes for the federal government, including congressional term limits, tax cuts, and free-market healthcare reform.
President Obama momentarily broke from his prepared State of the Union speech this evening reveling in the positive economic statistics that he proudly announced in the beginning of his speech.
President Obama acknowledged his critics during his State of the Union address this evening. But he says he believes in his vision of hope and change.
For the first time, the White House is making the full text of the speech available to citizens around the country online. By making the text available to the public in advance, the White House is continuing efforts to reach a wide online audience and give people a range of ways to consume the speech.
A new study commissioned by Facebook claims the social media giant created 4.5 million jobs and added $227 billion in global economic impact.
Working at the White House isn’t always formal. Sometimes even flannel is in fashion, as this weekend when official photographer Pete Souza released a photo of a casually dressed President Obama, working on his State of the Union speech with speechwriter Cody Keenan.
A look at the latest survey numbers could spell trouble for a Republican Party that came out singing Kumbaya after the November elections, as Democrats, including the one in the White House continued to stay on the offensive.
The modern State of the Union address isn’t intended to make news. By the time it happens, the White House has leaked every newsworthy proposal. And as if a prime time speech, covered by all the major networks, with the entire Congress as his backdrop wasn’t enough, there’s another theatrical aspect: The guests in the First Lady’s box.
On Tuesday, a DREAMer from Texas will be sitting with First Lady Michelle Obama during President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address. The White House officially announced that Ana Zamora will join 21 others as Michelle Obama’s guests tomorrow evening in
Obama appears to be doing more to shape the political landscape ahead of the 2016 presidential election than helping the American middle class.
Fox News apologizes for misreporting on ‘no-go zones’ in Europe; Swiss franc revaluation panics East European currency markets; Troops and police spread across Europe, in fear of terror attacks; Thousands in Muslim countries protest cartoon depiction of Mohammed; Barack Obama describes an American advantage over Europe
Republican 2012 presidential candidate Mitt Romney is debuting a new inequality theme as he considers whether to make another presidential bid.
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, often mentioned as a potential Republican candidate for president, will address the Henry Jackson Society in London on Monday, speaking about foreign policy, terrorism, and immigration.
President Obama says that the United States has an advantage when combating radical Islamic terrorism, pointing to the strength of the American-Muslim community in America rather than just the efforts of law enforcement. Obama then encouraged European countries to build stronger ties to Muslim immigrants, rather than simply increasing law enforcement.
The leader of the free world needs a little help from his friends, and President Obama has confirmed he calls British Prime Minister David Cameron “bro.” Cameron is trying to build support at home ahead of a parliamentary election in May.
The United States will send 400 troops to train ‘moderate’ Syrian rebels this spring as part of its campaign against IS militants in the region. Pentagon spokesman Maj James Brindle confirmed the proposed deployment, according to An Nahar in Lebanon.
Congressman Pete Sessions (R-Texas) is touting the passage of a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) appropriations bill as the fulfillment of a promise he and House Republicans made to block President Barack Obama’s executive orders granting amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants.
White House senior advisor Valerie Jarrett is not pleased with the Republican effort to defund President Obama’s executive action on immigration reform, arguing that his actions have actually improved the immigration system.
Five more detainees from Guantanamo Bay were released from the detention facility, according to an announcement from the Defense Department last night.
Jarrett said the president intends to issue an executive order that will ensure federal employees receive six weeks of paid maternity leave.
