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Cuts would curtail Obama Head Start plan
President Barack Obama’s call for universal pre-kindergarten during his State of the Union address was symbolic of many of the proposals he floated during that speech: A big idea currently facing the budget ax. Obama’s plan would, in part, create a new federal-state partnership that would provide low- and moderate-income ...
Battle lines forming in minimum wage debate
When President Obama proposed hiking the federal minimum wage to $9 an hour last week, he began a policy fight over an issue with broad popular support but widespread business opposition. Supporters say the raise, the first since 2009, is overdue, is hardly lavish and will boost the economy. Opponents, ...
Second Thoughts: Top-ranked Hoosiers passing the eye test
I was watching CNN when that huge asteroid was speeding toward Earth. They had a “countdown clock” on the screen, which was amusing. Thankfully, the event proved to be as anticlimactic as a New Year’s Eve countdown, although a small space boulder hitting an empty arena in Houston might’ve spared ...
Washington stumbling toward automatic budget cuts
With just over two weeks until $85 billion in across the board budget cuts are set to hit all corners of the federal budget, the blame game is in full bloom in Washington, D.C., as this week's State of the Union Address seemingly did nothing to push lawmakers any closer ...
Congress is urged to raise gas taxes
A day after President Obama proposed $50 billion in new spending on roads and bridges as part of his State of the Union Address, a leading business group called on the Congress to do something that hasn't been done in twenty years, raise federal gasoline taxes to pay for infrastructure ...
Two local men attend presidential address
Two local leaders attended the State of the Union address in Washington D.C. on Tuesday night as guests of U.S. House Speaker John Boehner.Boehner, R-West Chester, invited Jason Barlow, president of United Auto Workers Local 402, and state Rep. Ross McGregor to attend President Barack Obama’s speech. Boehner’s 8th District ...
Ohio senators and local lawmakers react to State of the Union
Here’s how Ohio’s senators and some local lawmakers responded to President Obama’s State of the Union. Tell us what you thought of it on Facebook. U.S. Rep. Mike Turner, R-Dayton: “The president offered no solution to saving the tens of thousands of jobs across our country that are going to ...
Obama wants increased minimum wage, faster troop withdrawal
President Barack Obama Tuesday night pressed a divided Congress to agree on measures to simplify the nation’s tax code, overhaul the immigration laws, raise the federal minimum wage, and toughen gun restrictions. In a State of the Union address delivered to a joint session of Congress, Obama hoisted a direct ...
Obama's 2013 State of the Union Speech: Full Text
The following is the complete text of the president's address as prepared for delivery. As Prepared for Delivery – Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, fellow citizens: Fifty-one years ago, John F. Kennedy declared to this Chamber that “the Constitution makes us not rivals for power but ...
President Obama's State of the Union
Here is the prepared text of President Barack Obama's 2013 State of the Union Address. This text was sent by reporters by the White House Press Office just before the speech began. = February 12, 2013 Remarks of President Barack Obama – As Prepared for Delivery State of the ...
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Pentagon pleads with Congress to block cuts
Sometimes when the Congress is engaged in a tough legislative battle, we say the House is "jamming" the Senate to accept a certain bill or vice versa, basically trying jam something down the other guy's throat. Today at a Senate hearing, it almost seemed like it was the Pentagon trying ...
Local union president Boehner’s guest tonight
A local Navistar employee will attend President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address tonight in Washington D.C. as a guest of U.S. House Speaker John Boehner. Jason Barlow is the president of United Auto Workers Local 402, which represents workers at the Springfield truck manufacturing plant. Navistar, which employs ...
Obama marks second term with State of the Union
Still facing a divided Congress, President Obama goes before lawmakers and the nation on Tuesday night ready to urge action on economic growth, gun violence, immigration reform and more, with no guarantee of anything but more sharp partisan battles in the months ahead. "What the President has been saying and ...
Exclusive interview: John Boehner on sequestration
U.S. House Speaker John Boehner said Monday the only way to avoid damaging budget cuts at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is for the President and Senate Democrats to agree to other spending cuts, rather than try to raise taxes. Boehner’s comments came in a one-on-one interview with WHIO-TV at the ...
Boehner not optimistic deal will be reached to avoid budget cuts
House Speaker John Boehner is not optimistic Congress and the president will reach a deal to avert massive federal budget reductions as thousands of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base workers face potential furloughs if automatic spending cuts start March 1. “I’m not the most optimistic guy when it comes to whether ...
White House signals focus on economy
While there will certainly be more than one issue discussed by President Obama in Tuesday night's State of the Union Address, the White House made clear in recent days that the signature focus of this speech will be on the economy. WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama will focus his ...
Obama to focus on guns, immigration
Gun control, climate change legislation and immigration reform are among the topics President Barack Obama is expected to address Tuesday when he makes his fourth State-of-the-Union address before a joint session of Congress. Members of both parties will be listening for specifics as Obama states his arguments for curbing greenhouse ...
Rubio tapped for State of the Union response
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), already seen as a rising star in Republican Party circles and a possible candidate for President in 2016, will play a central role in next week's State of the Union Address, as he will give the official GOP response to the President's speech. "Marco Rubio is ...
President Obama lays out second term agenda
Often an Inaugural Address is more about themes and broad policy matters than specifics, and while President Obama did not go into fine details in his second Inaugural, he certainly did set out some legislative markers for what he wants done in the Congress during his next four years in ...
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