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Obama to nominate Walmart’s Burwell as White House budget chief

August 24, 2021 at 12:19 a.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will nominate Walmart's philanthropic head Sylvia Mathews Burwell on Monday to become director of the White House budget office, a White House official said...

Obama to nominate Walmart’s Burwell as White House budget chief

May 23, 2019 at 4:06 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will nominate Walmart's philanthropic head Sylvia Mathews Burwell on Monday to become director of the White House budget office, a White House official said...

U.S. spending ax set to fall, but then what?

August 23, 2021 at 11:56 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Devastating, unthinkable, shameful, brutal, disastrous. These are just a few of the adjectives used by lawmakers, officials and President Barack Obama to describe the across-the-board budget cuts...

U.S. spending ax set to fall, but then what?

May 23, 2019 at 4:05 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Devastating, unthinkable, shameful, brutal, disastrous. These are just a few of the adjectives used by lawmakers, officials and President Barack Obama to describe the across-the-board budget cuts...

Senate Republicans cast doubt on broad immigration bill

August 23, 2021 at 11:15 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As President Barack Obama intensifies pressure for wide-ranging immigration reforms, some Republicans in the Congress on Wednesday made clear that a less ambitious, piecemeal approach might be...

In rebuttal to Obama, Rubio tries to soften Republicans’ tone

August 23, 2021 at 11:11 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Marco Rubio, seeking to help the Republican Party shed its image as a defender of the rich, stressed his working-class upbringing and the need to...

House Democrats unveil gun control package; mirrors Obama’s

August 22, 2019 at 8:43 a.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top Democrats in the House of Representatives unveiled a broad proposal on Thursday to curb gun violence that mirrors the one offered last month by President Barack...

Biden urges Democrats to comply with demands to curb U.S. gun violence

August 23, 2021 at 10:49 p.m.

LEESBURG, Virginia (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden urged fellow Democrats in the House of Representatives on Wednesday to comply with public demands for action to reduce gun violence....

Biden urges Democrats to comply with demands to curb U.S. gun violence

August 22, 2019 at 8:41 a.m.

LEESBURG, Virginia (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden urged fellow Democrats in the House of Representatives on Wednesday to comply with public demands for action to reduce gun violence....

House Republicans try to chip away at immigration reform

August 23, 2021 at 10:39 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The first major immigration reform effort since 1986 came under attack on Tuesday from congressional Republicans who cast doubt on a proposal backed by President Barack Obama...

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