Barack Obama
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Obama views Hurricane Irene damage in New Jersey
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Keeping tabs on a Gulf Coast storm, President Barack Obama focused on flood damage in New Jersey during a trip Sunday to see firsthand the destruction that Hurricane Irene caused.
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Obama urges Congress to pass transportation bill
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President Barack Obama says failure to ensure funding for roads and construction jobs is a path to economic disaster.
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White House: Bad weather grounds Marine One
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Bad weather forced President Obama to ditch his presidential helicopter, Marine One, en route to Camp David and board a motorcade to get to the presidential retreat in Maryland.
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President Barack Obama's speech on jobs gives chance to face down critics
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President Obama will get a nationally televised address, moved back by a day when the GOP objected, that puts him face to face with Republican lawmakers who have bitterly opposed his agenda and who have vowed to vote down any new spending.
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Obama gives in on speech timing, moves to Sept. 8
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It seems House Speaker Boehner and President Obama have resolved their quarrel over the timing of a Presidential address to Congress.
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Federal highway bill set to expire, Obama urges extension
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President Barack Obama warned that millions of highway construction jobs would be at risk if Congress doesn't extend a federal transportation spending bill by Sept. 30
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Obama on Hurricane Irene: 'This is not over'
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Despite Tropical Storm Irene's weakened punch, President Barack Obama urged those in its path to stay vigilant and warned that the storm's impact would continue to be felt for some time.
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Libya: Gadhafi's regime teeters on collapse
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Months of NATO airstrikes have left Gadhafi's compound in Tripoli largely demolished. Most of his security forces fled or surrendered, and three of his sons are under arrest.
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Obama on a holiday
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Is there ever really a good time for the president to go on vacation?
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Obama on the offensive
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President Barack Obama's Midwestern tour is offering a mix of offense and defense.
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President Barack Obama's weekly address (video)
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In his weekly radio and Internet address, President Barack Obama is calling on frustrated voters to tell Congress they're sick of gridlock and partisanship and want to see compromise to boost the faltering economy and create jobs.
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New fuel standards for big vehicles to be unveiled
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Fire trucks and concrete mixers, semis, heavy-duty pickups and all trucks in between will, for the first time, have to trim fuel consumption and emissions of heat-trapping gases under new efficiency standards being announced Tuesday by President Barack Obama.
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Waivers for No Child Left Behind tests coming for states
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Education Secretary Arne Duncan said that states can skip the tests as long as they implement other reform efforts.
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Debt Crisis: Obama speaks on first U.S. debt downgrade in history
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President Barack Obama says the U.S. will always be a triple-A country despite what rating agencies say.
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Debt ceiling committee faces touch deficit reduction challenge
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For six Republicans and six Democrats, the toughest-to-swallow items on the deficit-cutting menu await.
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Man jumps White House fence, apprehended by Secret Service
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James Dirk Crudup, the 41-year-old homeless man who jumped a fence at the White House, appeared in court Wednesday.
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Obama takes staff to Good Stuff Eatery
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With the debt crisis over (for now), President Obama took his staff on an afternoon trip to Spike Mendelsohn's Good Stuff Eatery for lunch.
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Debt ceiling debate works toward contentious compromise
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President Obama has just addressed the nation live, saying a debt deal has been reached between Republican and Democratic leaders, and government spending will be at the lowest level it has been since when Dwight Eisenhower was president in the 1950s.
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