WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House signaled on Wednesday it could support a short-term increase in the U.S. borrowing limit for "a few days" if lawmakers agreed to a broad deficit reduction deal but needed more time to pass it. | |
Republican senator presses Obama on trade deals
Wed,20 Jul 2011 07:50 PM PDT
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senator Rob Portman on Wednesday urged President Barack Obama to quickly send three long-delayed free-trade pacts to Congress for approval, rather than wait until after the August congressional recess. Full Story | |
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney took aim at President Barack Obama's economic leadership on Wednesday, saying the Democrat's policies were hurting, not helping, the U.S. economy. | |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Wednesday that the deciding factor for voters next year in his re-election campaign will be their verdict on his track record, not the Republican running against him. | |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A poll released on Wednesday carried warning signs for President Barack Obama's re-election chances in 2012. | |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann sought on Wednesday to reassure voters that her migraines are not debilitating, releasing a doctor's statement that said she is able to manage them. | |
Senator Kohl says AT&T deal should be blocked
Wed,20 Jul 2011 02:28 PM PDT
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senator Herb Kohl, chairman of the U.S. Senate's antitrust subcommittee, urged the federal government to block AT&T's $39 billion plan to buy T-Mobile USA, a unit of Deutsche Telekom. Full Story | |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama bucked decades-old electoral trends to win the White House in 2008, taking nine states that had supported Republican George W. Bush four years earlier. | |
(Reuters) - The White House and a number of congressional leaders are seeking to put elements of a new bipartisan deficit-cutting plan into what may be a last-ditch bid to avert a debt default. | |
Snapshot: Developments in debt talks
Wed,20 Jul 2011 12:27 PM PDT
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Here is the status on Wednesday in negotiations to raise the government's $14.3 trillion debt limit by August 2 and avoid a credit default. Full Story | |
Obama to meet House Republican leaders Wednesday: White House
Wed,20 Jul 2011 11:37 AM PDT
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will meet with Republican House of Representatives leader John Boehner and House Republican number two Eric Cantor at 5 p.m. (2100 GMT) on Wednesday to discuss the ongoing deficit talks, the White House said. Full Story | |
CHENNAI, India (Reuters) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pushed one of her simplest but potentially most transformative diplomatic priorities in India on Wednesday: clean cooking stoves. | |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - If Texas Governor Rick Perry jumps into the Republican presidential contest, the crowded field will get a formidable fundraiser competing for millions of dollars up for grabs from on-the-fence donors. | |
CHENNAI, India (Reuters) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told India on Wednesday "it's time to lead", urging the government to do more to integrate economically with neighbors Afghanistan and Pakistan and take a more assertive role across the Asia-Pacific. | |
U.S. trade deals could be delayed past August: Daley
Tue,19 Jul 2011 06:21 PM PDT
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will soon send free-trade pacts with Colombia, South Korea and Panama to Congress for votes, White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley said on Tuesday, but doubts are building on its passage. Full Story | |
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged India on Tuesday to amend a law that has put off U.S. companies from taking part in the $150 billion nuclear energy market and further open up Asia's third largest economy to foreign investment. | |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For the first time in a long, bitter fight over budget deficits and raising the U.S. debt limit, Democrats and Republicans have found a big idea they both might like: a "Gang of Six" proposal that unexpectedly burst onto the scene on Tuesday. | |
Factbox: Details of Senate group's deficit-cut plan
Tue,19 Jul 2011 01:47 PM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - A bipartisan group of U.S. senators on Tuesday offered an ambitious deficit reduction plan that could help break an impasse over spending cuts and tax increases and advance efforts to raise the U.S. credit limit by August 2. Full Story | |
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Former Louisiana Governor Buddy Roemer will formally announce his candidacy for president on Thursday in New Hampshire, campaign aides told Reuters on Tuesday. | |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann said Tuesday she suffers from migraines and controls them with prescription medication but denied a report the headaches leave her incapacitated. | |
Factbox: McConnell-Reid backup plan on debt limit
Tue,19 Jul 2011 12:58 PM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - A bipartisan fallback plan is emerging to avert an unprecedented U.S. debt default -- if Congress and the White House fail to reach a comprehensive deal to raise the U.S. borrowing limit by an August 2 deadline. Full Story | |
Factbox: Key dates in 2012 presidential race
Tue,19 Jul 2011 12:32 PM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - The first contests on the road to the 2012 Republican presidential nomination are scheduled to take place next February, but there is a series of important events on the political calendar before then. Full Story | |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senator Lamar Alexander, a member of Republican leadership, embraced on Tuesday a deficit-reduction plan by the bipartisan "Group of Six" senators aimed at averting a debt default. | |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After months of criticizing President Barack Obama's economic leadership, the Republican White House hopefuls are turning some of their sharpest jabs on each other. | |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan group of U.S. senators on Tuesday revived an ambitious budget plan that could provide new ideas for breaking the impasse in Congress over raising the nation's credit limit by August 2. | |
GREEN BAY, Wisconsin (Reuters) - Wisconsin voters were heading to the polls on Tuesday for the first of nine summer recall elections triggered by the battle earlier this year over curbs on public-sector collective bargaining in the state. | |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama threw his support on Tuesday behind efforts by a bipartisan group of senators to negotiate a new deficit-reduction plan aimed at averting a looming debt default. | |
Nuclear regulators question recommended reforms
Tue,19 Jul 2011 10:37 AM PDT
Reuters - ROCKVILLE, Maryland (Reuters) - The head of the U.S. nuclear safety regulator wants a quick and sweeping overhaul of the rules governing the nuclear power industry but his fellow commissioners said on Tuesday they want to first hear from the industry and the public. Full Story | |
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - U.S. officials met with representatives of Muammar Gaddafi to deliver a message that the embattled Libyan leader must go, a State Department spokesperson said on Tuesday. | |
U.S. can move on nuclear reactor review: NRC chief
Tue,19 Jul 2011 09:17 AM PDT
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chairman of the U.S. nuclear safety regulator said on Tuesday that the agency would be able to move ahead evaluating applications for new nuclear reactors even if it hasn't made final decisions on rule changes in the wake of Japan's nuclear disaster. Full Story | |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senator Mitch McConnell's plan to avert an imminent debt default could lead to a day of reckoning for his Republicans as they weigh the prospect of fiscal disaster against the demands of Tea Party activists. | |
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - The majority leader of North Dakota's Republican-controlled state Senate was killed on Monday when the vehicle he was driving back from a fishing trip veered off a road and crashed in Alaska. | |
AUSTIN (Reuters) - Governor Rick Perry signed into law on Monday a Republican-backed measure that would eventually allow Texas to enter into a "health care compact" with other states to seek flexibility in operating Medicaid and Medicare. |
|