Tag: White House

Republicans must gain six seats in the upper chamber for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and his team to hand over the gavel to the GOP. Three years after the GOP won back the House over backlash to the

With one week to go until the December 23 Obamacare enrollment deadline, all eyes are on the White House to see whether HealthCare.gov’s touted website fixes have brought the program anywhere near its seven million-person enrollment goal by March 31,

On Tuesday, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius accepting an offer to meet with the White House to discuss security vulnerabilities with regard to HealthCare.gov.

(AP) Budget bill moves toward final passage in SenateBy ANDREW TAYLORAssociated PressWASHINGTONA bipartisan budget bill that would ease some but not all of painful budget cuts that would otherwise slam the Pentagon and domestic agencies has passed a pivotal test

(AP) US: Snowden should return to US, face chargesWASHINGTONThe White House says a National Security Agency official who suggested the U.S. consider granting Edward Snowden amnesty was expressing his personal opinion. White House spokesman Jay Carney says President Barack Obama’s

One week after a Government Accountability Institute (GAI) report created a media firestorm by revealing that the official White House calendar and Politico presidential calendar recorded only a single one-on-one meeting between President Barack Obama and Health and Human Services

John Podesta, former advisor to President Clinton and now an advisor to Barack Obama, is being hailed as a savior by environmental groups hoping to push their agenda through with help from the White House. The supposed drop in unemployment

Wouldn’t it be nice if American citizens could depend on the Department of Justice (DOJ) to actually enforce the law? It really doesn’t seem like much to ask of the nation’s top law enforcement agency. And yet, when it comes

(AP) AP-GfK poll: Another worry about new health lawBy RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and JENNIFER AGIESTAAssociated PressWASHINGTONJust when the government’s insurance website is starting to run more smoothly, an Associated Press-GfK poll finds a potentially bigger problem for President Barack Obama’s health

Addressing questions regarding the millions of Americans struggling to access and navigate healthcare.gov, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney makes it sound so simple, telling a national audience that “you are better served by using a navigator…” These “navigators” are on

Democratic Senators, upset with the White House’s botched rollout of Obamacare, are apparently overjoyed at President Obama’s injection of former Clinton experts into the administration. Last week, the White House announced that John Podesta of the Center for American Progress

A new report released from the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS) has found that the Obama Administration delayed enacting regulations that could adversely affect the 2012 presidential election. The ACUS is an independent agency that advises the government

Over at The Washington Post, Ezra Klein wrote Friday that the federal ObamaCare site “is on a clear path to functionality” and then went on to ridicule Republicans for opposing it. That might make sense if it were anything close

The Obama administration is attempting to create a new rule that would legalize the abuses of power that it committed during the IRS scandal, when Tea Party and conservative non-profit groups were targeted. The Treasury has proposed a new rule

While the White House and Senate Democrats hammered guns and gun rights during 2013, investors put their money into gun company stocks and garnered “incredible returns.” According to The Wall Street Journal’s Market Watch, “those who bought [stock in] Smith