Obama on bin Laden: ‘We mean what we say’
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on May 6th, 2011 4:35 am by HL
Obama on bin Laden: ‘We mean what we say’
Marking Osama bin Laden’s death where the terrorist inflicted his greatest damage, President Barack Obama spoke to reporters while visiting the Manhattan firehouse that sustained the heaviest losses on Sept. 11. (May 5)
Firefighters enjoyed meeting with Obama
While in New York Thursday to pay his respects to those who lost their lives on September 11, 2001, President Barack Obama visited and had lunch at a fire station that lost 15 firefighters during the attack. (May 5)
GOP leaders divided on prospects for Medicare deal with Democrats
Heading into key debt talks with the White House, congressional Republicans publicly split Thursday over the prospects for their ambitious proposal to transform Medicare.
The division came as two senior Republicans, House Majority Whip Eric Cantor (Va.) and Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (Ariz.), entered Blair House Thursday morning for the start of a broad fiscal negotiation with Vice President Biden and Senate Democrats. The talks are designed to reach a deal to allow the Treasury to continue borrowing money to finance the federal government in exchange for budgetary changes that would slash annual deficits.
