WASHINGTON  - President Barack Obama said Friday the United States and Germany share “one voice” in condemning the Iranian effort to crush dissent. He said Iran’s leaders cannot hide the “outrageous” behavior of clamping down violently on their people.
“We see it and we condemn it,” Obama said.
Obama spoke in a joint White House appearance with [...]

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama says serving the country is the job of all citizens, not just those who volunteer for the military.
Joined by first lady Michelle Obama, the president appeared Thursday at Fort McNair to promote community service. The project this day: loading 15,000 backpacks with books, healthy snacks and toys for children of [...]

WASHINGTON  - Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told lawmakers Wednesday that President Barack Obama is willing to listen to suggestions on how to pay for a health care overhaul, as long as they don’t increase the deficit.
“The president is open to good ideas about how we finance health reform,” she said in testimony [...]

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama described himself on Tuesday as being “entirely consistent” in his expressions of concern about the disputed Iranian election and the government crackdown that followed street protests. But his language clearly has gotten tougher since his first statement that the suppression of dissent was “of concern to me.”
In Tuesday’s news conference, [...]

WASHINGTON  - It fell to President Barack Obama to confirm the gossip that his aides had spent weeks trying to snuff out: He still sneaks an occasional cigarette.
“There are times where I mess up,” Obama said at a White House news conference on Tuesday.
But, the president hastened to add, he never smokes in front of [...]

WASHINGTON  - President Barack Obama has scheduled his first Rose Garden news conference.
The White House on Monday said Obama would take questions from reporters at 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday.
Obama has previously engaged in formal news conferences during prime-time television hours and on international trips. This would be his first extended questioning in the White House’s [...]

WASHINGTON  - President Barack Obama has signed the strongest anti-smoking measure ever, calling it an extraordinary accomplishment that will help keep children from getting hooked on cigarettes.
Standing in the Rose Garden with a number of lawmakers and other guests, Obama declared: “It is a law that will save American lives.”
The legislation gives the Food and [...]

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama says the pharmaceutical industry’s agreement to help close a gap in Medicare’s drug coverage will make health care overhaul more possible.
Drug companies have pledged to spend $80 billion over the next decade to help reduce the cost of drugs for seniors and pay for a portion of Obama’s proposed revamping [...]

CHICAGO  - Pushing again to get the health care system overhauled, President Barack Obama is arguing that people must beware of “scare tactics and fear-mongering” that have killed such efforts in the past.
Obama said “we know there are those who will try to scuttle” the program no matter what. He said that “because these fear [...]