Topic: Presidential Powers
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It may not help the economy, but President Barack Obama found another move he can make without congressional approval on Wednesday: pardon a turkey.Obama, a Democrat, has spent the last several weeks criticizing the Congress and Republicans for not ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will sign an executive order on Monday to tackle an escalating shortage of life-saving medicines, including cancer treatments, according to a White House official.Hospitals and doctors across the country have been postponing care or using second-best ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Wednesday strongly defended his decision to intervene in Libya, saying he consulted with Congress and operated within legal guidelines in approving a narrow, U.N.-mandated mission."We have carried out that narrow mission in exemplary fashion," Obama ...
US lawmakers will consider two bills authorizing limited military action in Libya over three months after Washington joined Western allies in an air war on Moamer Kadhafi's regime.The bills were unveiled Tuesday night as President Barack Obama has come under fire from ...
President Barack Obama faces mounting pressure from lawmakers who have accused him of steamrolling Congress by joining the NATO air war in Libya and are threatening to cut off funding for US operations.The dispute touches on the separation of powers, a bedrock ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama ignored legal advice from top Pentagon and Justice Department lawyers, siding with other advisers who said he had legal authority to continue air strikes against Libya without congressional approval, the New York Times reported on Friday.Citing ...
With key deadlines looming, the White House vowed to answer critics of the conflict in Libya who have demanded detailed explanations of the cost, legal rationale, and goal of the operations."We are in the final stages of preparing extensive information for the ...
President Barack Obama's top critic in the US Congress warned him Tuesday that US operations in the Libya conflict risked violating US law by this weekend unless he gets lawmakers' explicit approval.Republican US House Speaker John Boehner warned Obama that the administration ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - While Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi remains alive, the law that some say requires President Barack Obama to get congressional authorization for attacking Gaddafi's forces may be on its last legs.The 1973 War Powers Resolution, which sought to set out ...
In a challenge to President Barack Obama's handling of the conflict in Libya, a group of US senators accused him Wednesday of violating a 1973 law aimed at curtailing the White House's war powers.Conservative Republicans Rand Paul, Jim DeMint, Mike Lee, Ron ...
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