Topic: David Axelrod
Sen. Dodd, we surely hope so.According to senior Obama adviser David Axelrod, speaking on ABC's "This Week", "Congress is - is reviewing that. Boy, Axelrod is sounding like Obama with that comment.According to Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn, "I think clearly we ...
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 invited ...
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 Senate ...
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 Washington ...
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.House ...
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 ...
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 cutting ...
Here's the sampling from this morning's news on health reform: Obama special adviser David Axelrod doubts that two Republican senators involved in health-care talks aren't negotiating seriously, reports the WSJ. "If you're sitting at a table negotiating in good faith, then you ...
Chuck Grassley and David Axelrod both talked health care on ABC's This Week. Axelrod said President Obama prefers funding health reform by limiting tax deductions for people making more than $250,000 a year - but wouldn't rule out going along with a ...