Seeking to build on momentum generated by his health care address to Congress, President Obama ratcheted up his call Thursday for the passage of reform legislation this year.
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Commentary: Obama’s moment of truth
On Wednesday, President Obama will make the most important speech of his presidency. We hear this phrase so much that it has become a clich
Commentary: Obama’s speech a heavy lift
The president is making a major address to the Congress and the country Wednesday night.
Obama’s speech a health care ‘game changer’?
After months of criticism that he has failed to outline a specific health care reform plan, President Obama will address a joint session of Congress on Wednesday night in a speech aides say will be to the point.
Ted Kennedy: Absent but still inspiring
For the first time in more than 60 years, America is without a Kennedy on the national stage and it’s more than just a sentimental loss to President Barack Obama. The last of the Kennedy brothers, Senator Edward Kennedy, died this week of brain cancer at age 77
"Where Memory and Hope Converge": The Funeral of Edward M. Kennedy
“The greatest expectations were placed upon Ted Kennedy’s shoulders because of who he was,” observed President Barack Obama in his eulogy, “but he surpassed them all because of who he became.” Thus did a sitting President honor the man who never became one, acknowledging that power is wielded in many ways. It was fitting that, in a church famous for its healing miracles, the funeral service was a celebration of private love, for the scarred and broken family he held together; of personal strength in the face of “a string of events that would have broken a lesser man”; and of a public life spent in merry battle. “While his causes became deeply personal, his disagreements never did,” Obama declared.
Health-Care Reform After Kennedy: A Scaled-Back Bill?
It has not been lost on many that Ted Kennedy’s death came at a moment when the cause he described as the greatest one of his public life — universal health care — seems to be stumbling just short of the goal line. Kennedy’s absence has been felt all year on Capitol Hill, and there are many on both sides who believe that health reform might be closer to becoming a reality if he had been in any shape to bring his negotiating skills to bear. So what effect will his passing have on the prospects for health reform?
Joe Kennedy’s First Marriage: Still On
The most controversial “marriage that never was” in recent U.S.
Analyst: Post-Kennedy health care bill may be more sweeping
For almost 50 years, Sen. Ted Kennedy pushed unsuccessfully for legislation that would reform the health care system and ensure coverage for every American. Ironically, his death might bring about a change of tactics that would help reach the goal he was unable to achieve in life, one veteran political analyst says
Report: More than 200 face trial over China ethnic riots
More than 200 people charged in connection with last month’s deadly riots in the western Chinese city of Urumqi could be tried this week, according to reports from the state-run China Daily.