Tag - Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II , né le 4   août   1961 à Honolulu , dans l' État d'Hawaï [1] , est le 44 e et actuel président des États-Unis .
Briefing: U.S. to scrap HIV travel/immigration ban
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Friday the U.S. will overturn a 22-year-old travel and immigration ban against people with HIV early next year. The order will be finalized on Monday, Obama said, completing a process begun during the Bush administration. The U.S. has been among a dozen countries that bar entry to travelers with visas or anyone seeking a green card based on their HIV ...
2009-10-31 -
Pioneer Press
Eugene Robinson: Voters get change they wanted
WASHINGTON -- It's been a year since a healthy majority of American voters elected Barack Obama to change the world. Which is precisely what he's doing. Like many people who desperately want to see the country take a more progressive course, I quarrel with some of President Obama's actions. I wish he'd been tougher on Wall Street, quicker to close Guantanamo, more willing to ...
2009-11-03 -
Memphis Commercial Appeal
Obama gets pro-Boeing message
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of lawmakers who support Boeing in its bid for a $35 billion tanker contract want President Barack Obama to force the Air Force to include a recent World Trade Organization ruling against Airbus in its decision.
2009-11-05 -
Everett Herald
Boeing backers press Obama on tanker contract
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of lawmakers who support Boeing in its bid for a $35 billion tanker contract want President Barack Obama to force the Air Force to include a recent World Trade Organization ruling against Airbus in its decision.The WTO in September issued an interim ruling that found Airbus received illegal launch aid from European governments to build its aircraft. Los Angeles ...
2009-11-03 -
Air Force Times
Chamber’s Donohue Keeps Cash Coming After PG&E, Apple Defect
Nov. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc. and three other members of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce quit over its opposition to climate-change legislation. President Barack Obama denounced the group for “spending millions” to kill a planned consumer financial-protection agency.
2009-11-12 -
Bloomberg
Boeing May Lose $7.5 Bln Brazil Sale as Envoy Stalls (Update1)
Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Boeing Co. may lose a $7.5 billion jet fighter sale to Brazil unless the U.S. Senate lifts a four- month delay in confirming President Barack Obama’s nominee for ambassador to Latin America’s biggest country, a former top U.S. diplomat to the region said.
2009-11-19 -
Bloomberg
PM leaves for US; N-tech transfer, terror on agenda
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to the United States — the first by a head of state after Barack Obama became president — is expected to “take the strategic partnership between the two countries to the next level”, a government spokesperson said on Friday.
2009-11-20 -
Hindustan Times
US media plays up Indian PM's Washington visit to the hilt (Part-I)
By Smita Prakash, Washington, Nov.26 : Visits by heads of government or state to the United States usually don’t occupy much space in the American media, especially on their front pages and in times of global economic distress, but this visit by the Indian Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, as President Barack Obama's first State Guest has seen the American fourth estate playing it up ...
2009-11-26 -
New Kerala
Inside Washington: Stream of WH health care visits
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's top aides met frequently with lobbyists and health care industry heavyweights as his administration pieced together a national health care overhaul, according to White House visitor records obtained by The Associated Press.
2009-11-27 -
Baxter Bulletin
Networks plan live coverage of Obama's speech
A number of TV networks are announcing plans for live coverage of President Barack Obama's speech at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Broadcast networks planning to broadcast the speech on Tuesday include ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC and PBS. Cable networks... CBS - Barack Obama - American Broadcasting Company - Television network - NBC
2009-11-30 -
San Francisco Chronicle
President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts, 12/02/09
WASHINGTON – Today, President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate the following individuals to key administration posts: Rosemary DiCarlo, United States Deputy Representative to the United Nations, with the rank of Ambassador, United States Mission to the United Nations Brooke D. Anderson, Alternate Representative of the United States of America for Special Political Affairs to the ...
2009-12-02 -
The White House
Obama Prods Banking Executives on Business Lending (Update1)
Dec. 14 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama is meeting with executives from Bank of America Corp., Wells Fargo & Co., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and other financial institutions to ratchet up pressure on banks to extend more credit to small businesses and ease opposition to his regulatory overhaul.
2009-12-14 -
Bloomberg
Obama réclame un "effort"
Le président des Etats-Unis a réuni les grandes banques afin d'obtenir leur soutien pour réformer le monde de la finance. Barack Obama veut obtenir le soutien des grandes ...
2009-12-14 -
Challenges
UPDATE: Obama FTC Nominee Brill Faced Drug-Benefit Managers
(Adds new information on committee hearing, in the 14th through 16th paragraphs.) Pharmacy-benefit managers and other health-industry sectors may face closer scrutiny under President Barack Obama's Federal Trade Commission if his nomination of Julie Brill for a spot on the panel is any indication.
2009-12-15 -
Nasdaq
Obama to meet with bankers, decries ‘fat cats’
WASHINGTON, Dec 14 — President Barack Obama may have some tough words today for executives of top US banks as he pushes them to step up small-business lending and get behind legislation to overhaul Wall Street regulations. Aides said that when Obama meets with the heads of firms such as Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase & Co and Citigroup Inc, he will call on them to take responsibility for helping ...
2009-12-14 -
The Malaysian Insider
Obama decries 'fat cats'
WASHINGTON - PRESIDENT Barack Obama may have some tough words on Monday for executives of top US banks as he pushes them to step up small-business lending and get behind legislation to overhaul Wall Street regulations. Aides said that when Mr Obama meets with the heads of firms such as Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase & Co and Citigroup Inc, he will call on them to take responsibility for helping ...
2009-12-14 -
Straits Times
12-22-09 EUR ALL ON ONE PAGE
TOM JOYNER INTERVIEWS PRESIDENT OBAMA: Q&A to air this morning at 8:35 a.m. ET. Plus, radio host to examine race in new MSNBC special. *Tom Joyner of the nationally-syndicated Tom Joyner Morning Show is scheduled to interview President Barack Obama this morning about a wide range of issues impacting black America.
2009-12-22 -
Eurweb
German American goes to Washington
The head of Jasper, Ind. -based German American Bancorp had a simple request when he met with President Barack Obama and top White House advisers Tuesday.Mark Schroeder, German American chairman and chief executive officer, asked the president to ensure the federal government will continue to provide generous guarantees on loans made to small businesses. Schroeder was one of 12 representatives ...
2009-12-23 -
Evansville Courier & Press