Leading members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, including co-chair Keith Ellison, are urging President Barack Obama to step up job creation efforts to create three million jobs in 2012.
In a Labor Day email titled “Big Labor Attack Squad,” U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann asked supporters to “level the playing field” with labor by donating to her campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.
President Barack Obama vowed to protect and extend veterans support services at a speech to 5,000 members of the American Legion Tuesday in Minneapolis.
At a speech to 5,000 American Legion members, Obama said providing services for returning veterans is a priority for his administration.
Protesters sought to influence the president on a range of issues, from climate change to the nation’s economy.
Michele Bachmann, Ron Paul, Rick Perry and Mitt Romney all achieve roughly equal results against Barack Obama in a new Gallup poll of registered voters. When respondents were asked to choose between Obama and one of these four GOP presidential candidates, Romney fared the best, with 48 percent of registered voters saying they would vote for him against Obama. But the difference between his result and the result of Bachmann and Paul, the two candidates who placed first and second in the Ames Straw Poll, was within the poll’s margin of error.
Appearing in Cannon Falls, Minn., yesterday, President Barack Obama was asked about legalizing medical marijuana. His answer was beyond vague and not entirely supportive.
White House officials announced Friday morning that President Barack Obama will make a statement on debt ceiling negotiations at 9:20 a.m. CST.
The Minnesota congresswoman said “we need sanity back in Washington.”
In the wake of President Barack Obama‘s Monday night national address about the debt ceiling, GOP presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann called the president out on his voting record, saying “you (voted against raising the debt ceiling) too, while you were in the Senate.”
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