Was Obama-GOP Meet Really a Game Changer?
President Obama's televised meeting with House Republicans again raised the possibility of realizing his campaign's hope to change Washington politics. ...
  
Obama, GOP Rep. tangle over numbers

By JIM KUNHNENN AP WASHINGTON -- An irked President Barack Obama on Friday invited fact-checkers to judge his budget claims against those of a Republican ...
Obama, GOP Confront Political Differences in Rare Debate

President Barack Obama and Congressional Republicans sparred over a range of policy issues Friday in a lively -- and rare -- no-holds-barred debate session. ...
Obama Appeals to GOP Conscience in Pressing Forward With Agenda

President Obama, pressing ahead with his sweeping domestic agenda, is using one of his favorite tools to try to get Republicans on board: shame. ...
Can Obama, GOP Get Anything Done?

SEWANEE, Tenn. — As I listened to retired Archbishop Robin Eames reflect on the reconciliation of Northern Ireland, I thought, “Who’s going to reconcile the United States?” Eames, 72, received an honorary doctor of divinity degree at the University of the South here after a career ministering to and then mediating between warring Protestants and Catholics. He described the agony of presiding over funerals for terror victims and the satisfaction of witnessing the destruction of tons of weapons amassed by the Irish Republican Army and Protestant paramilitaries. He urged that reconciliation be “the theme of this generation.” In the gra...
Medicare-for-all doctors arrested outside Obama-GOP meeting

Rising to President Obama's challenge in his State of the Union address that others come up with a better approach to health care reform than his own, ...
GOP response to Obama targets spending, health reform, jobs

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell gave the GOP response to President Obama's State of the Union speech. Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell gives GOP response to State of ...
State of the Union speech long on spirit, short on specifics

In his first formal State of the Union address Wednesday night, a relaxed, almost casual President Barack Obama showed plenty of spirit and fight. ...
Talking to the GOP...On track for jobs?...NASA's boost

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — President Barack Obama will address House Republicans on Friday, after he called for the GOP to help craft legislation to solve the ...
The GOP’s inconvenient truth

Today's GDP report is the most positive news to date on the economy,” said Christina Romer, chair of the White House's Council of Economic Advisors. ...