The White House Office of the Press Secretary East Room 2:16 P.M. EDT PRESIDENT OBAMA: Please be seated. Good afternoon, everybody. It is a great pleasure to welcome Prime Minister Noda of Japan, one of America’s closest allies in the Asia Pacific region but also around the world. And, of course, one of the reasons [...]
Sen. Dick Lugar (R) has been a conservative target for over a year. But only for the past month has the senator started to fight back against state Treasurer Richard Mourdock. With the primary coming up on May 8, it’s likely too little too late. A yard sign calling for voters to “retire” Sen. Richard [...]
In a piece for the Post’s Sunday Outlook section, Thomas Mann and Norm Ornstein write that the rise in political polarization in Congress is not the effect of both parties moving to their ideological extremes but rather of Republicans moving far further to the right than Democrats have moved to the left. A view of [...]
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Debbie StabenowKALAMAZOO, MI — The 2012 election campaign is likely to focus on “jobs, jobs, jobs,” U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow said today during a visit to Kalamazoo. “But that’s OK. We need to focus on jobs, jobs, jobs,” she added. “We’re coming out of a very deep hole.” She added that President Barack Obama is [...]
Regular readers of this column know that in analyzing the 2012 presidential race, I have been preoccupied—some would say obsessed—with the state and direction of the U.S. economy. Presidential elections have many moving parts and can turn on many things, but rarely is a single factor more important than the economy when an incumbent is [...]
The White House Office of the Press Secretary The U.S.-Japan Alliance is the cornerstone of peace, security, and stability in the Asia-Pacific region. This partnership has underwritten the dynamic growth and prosperity of the region for 60 years. The strength of this Alliance, which was demonstrated during the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011, is [...]
The White House Office of the Press Secretary President Obama met with Prime Minister Noda in Washington, D.C., on April 30, 2012. In addition to releasing the “U.S.-Japan Joint Statement: A Shared Vision for the Future,” the two leaders announced the following cooperative initiatives, which are aimed at strengthening and expanding the U.S.-Japan relationship in [...]
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Sen. Dick Lugar (R) has been a conservative target for over a year. But only for the past month has the senator started to fight back against state Treasurer Richard Mourdock. With the primary coming up on May 8, it’s likely too little too late. A yard sign calling for voters to “retire” Sen. Richard [...]
