Topic: David Axelrod

Obama hosts champagne toast for staff after health care overhaul passed in HouseThe news was so good, it called for champagne. With House passage of a health care overhaul secured Sunday night, and his celebratory East Room statement delivered, President Barack Obama ...

White House presses for health care reform deal

The White House on Sunday urged lawmakers to pass contentious health care reform, saying that the watered-down version of a bill before the Senate still accomplishes the president's goals of changing the troubled system. Facing opposition from key lawmakers last week, the ...

Obama seeks drug imports outside of health bill

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House pledged on Sunday to move forward on allowing imports of safe prescription drugs from nations like Canada where they are less expensive, but not in the healthcare reform legislation now before Congress. The pharmaceutical industry's powerful ...

Republicans aim for rival health plan in House

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives plan to offer an alternative to Democrats' massive healthcare reform bill that would not raise taxes or require people or businesses to buy health insurance, the House Republican leader said on Sunday. ...

Healthcare deadline spurred foes: White House's Axelrod

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (Reuters) - The Obama administration likely erred in giving Congress summer deadlines to move on U.S. healthcare reform legislation, a top White House official said on Wednesday. "I might rethink that if we were to start over again," David Axelrod, ...
White House adviser Axelrod says Afghanistan policy deeper than question of troopsA senior White House adviser said Friday that President Barack Obama's talks on Afghanistan with top national security advisers earlier in the day ran much deeper than the question of sending ...

White House sees healthcare reform this year

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration is optimistic about pushing through reforms to the U.S. healthcare system this year despite heavy opposition from Republicans in Congress, White House adviser David Axelrod said on Sunday. Overhauling the $2.5 trillion U.S. healthcare system, by ...