WASHINGTON — While some were moved to tears by the president’s soaring rhetoric, others were moved not at all. Where some saw a new clarity, others saw more vagueness. And while some praised him for reaching out to Republicans, there were those who felt he was overreaching in some ways and not reaching far enough [...]

WASHINGTON -  President Barack Obama will tell the nation in a prime-time address precisely how he wants to expand health care, including what his spokesman says will be a fresh argument for the much-debated government-run insurance option.
“What we’re going to hear tonight is, the president’s going to speak clearly and directly to the American people [...]

ARLINGTON, Va. – In a pep talk that kept clear of politics President Barack Obama on Tuesday challenged the nation’s students to take pride in their education – and stick with it even if they don’t like every class or must overcome tough circumstances at home.
“Every single one of you has something that you’re [...]

Prepared Remarks of President Barack Obama
Back to School Event
Arlington, Virginia
September 8, 2009
The President: Hello everyone – how’s everybody doing today? I’m here with students at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia. And we’ve got students tuning in from all across America, kindergarten through twelfth grade. I’m glad you all could join us today.
I know [...]

President Obama joins labor leaders today to welcome the new head of the AFL-CIO, and name a new advisor for manufacturing.

This Labor Day, the nation’s jobless rate is 9.7 percent, and Republicans argue the health reform plan Mr. Obama outlines Wednesday, requiring everyone to buy insurance, could cost millions more jobs:
“It’s complicated, it’s convoluted and [...]

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama said Monday the country still faces a “vast and complex” economic crisis and is pledging to work with business and labor to make things better.
In a Labor Day statement the White House released as he headed for a union picnic in Ohio, Obama voiced confidence that “working Americans will help [...]

WASHINGTON  – The patient isn’t dead yet.
A few more months of wrangling and indecision, and health care legislation to remedy America’s coverage and costs problem could be drawing its last gasps.
As Congress returns to work this week, President Barack Obama and lawmakers have three broad options – competing treatment plans for a patient whose vital [...]

WASHINGTON – The furor surrounding President Barack Obama’s upcoming address to the nation’s schoolchildren is “just silly,” his education chief said Sunday, and a conservative senator who led the Education Department in the first Bush administration suggested teachers make it a civics lesson.
Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s department has taken heat for proposed lesson plans distributed [...]

WASHINGTON  – Five months after President Barack Obama, with great fanfare, called for a world free of nuclear weapons, a crucial step toward that goal is running into resistance.
There is little indication Obama will have the votes he needs for a cornerstone of his nonproliferation efforts: Senate ratification of a nuclear test ban treaty. If [...]