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The article examines the efforts of the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama to avoid using the term "redistribution" in describing the Affordable Care Act, noting that many Republicans use the word critically and for its negative connotations. Particular attention is given to the administration's awareness of a need to redistribute wealth in order for the health care law to be effective.

The article focuses on the challenges being faced by the administration of U.S President Barack Obama in solving the another possible debt crisis and government shutdown. It mentions that sequestration is the second challenge that should be prepared by the government to avoid government shutdowns. It adds that federal tax code overhaul should be prioritized by the Republicans to limit the debt increase.

The article focuses on a debate among the 2016 presidential candidates at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California to discuss policies by U.S. President Barack Obama including the Affordable Care Act, Clean Power Plan, and the withdrawal of the American troops in Iraq.

The article offers information on the belief of Senator Mitch McConnell and U.S. President Barack Obama, who is frequently the object of his scorn, that an extensive trade deal with 11 other Pacific Rim nations will stoke the economy of the U.S. in 2015.

The article reports on the negotiation between House of Representative John A. Boehner and President Barack Obama on a grand bargain resembling recommendations from a bipartisan deficit reduction commission.

The article reports that U.S. President Barack Obama has focused on his governing objectives without the support of the U.S. Congress such as immigration law, economic stimulus package, and the U.S. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

The article focuses on the failure of U.S. President Barack Obama's administration in the U.S.

The article discusses the U.S. minimum wage worth $7.25 per hour which posed questions on the inaction of President Barack Obama to increase the number, citing three former leaders who pushed minimum wage increase including presidents George Bush and Bill Clinton and Senator Trent Lott.

The article examines the predicament of U.S. political Democratic Party which is struggling with wooing voters to support them in the November elections as President Barack Obama won the presidency in 2012 by small margins.

The article reports on the plan of the U.S. President Barack Obama to achieve the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal where his fellow Democrats believe it would undercut efforts to narrow income inequality.

The article reports on the State of the Union address of the U.S. President Barack Obama on January 28, 2014 which made little headways to his goal of government actions to lift long-term economic prospects for average Americans.

The article reports on the efforts of the U.S. President Barack Obama in balancing the competing imperatives of security and civil liberties amid the disclosures on the extent of the National Security Agency surveillance.

The article discusses the second term of office for U.S. President Barack Obama who become the fifth president since Harry S. Truman to serve long for a second term referring Congressional losses that have been the rule for parties in power.

The article reports on the opposition of U.S. Representative Tom Cole to the assertion of U.S. President Barack Obama regarding the strike in Syria.

The article reports on the insights of historians about predictions that the second term of Barack Obama as President of the U.S. is not as remarkable as his predecessors.

The article discusses several U.S. states that U.S. President Barack Obama has apparently forgotten, including North Dakota, South Dakota, and Arkansas.

The article reports that Republicans have refused to compromise a budget deal with U.S. President Barack Obama due to several reasons such as the deferring unpopular cuts on entitlements can win them back the U.S. Senate in 2014 and the White House in 2016.

The article presents information on a study conducted on U.S. President Barack Obama's health care law, which states that young adults were paying more insurance premiums on their parents' plans.

The article reports on the institutional changes at President Barack Obama's administration in the U.S. and cites the former governance of President-elect Richard M. Nixon and President Lyndon B. Johnson.

The article reports on the plan of President Barack Obama in retrieving a deficit-reduction deal in the U.S. in 2013 and mentions that he will organize a meeting with Congressional Democrats and Republicans.

The article discusses the sequestration and budget cuts in the U.S. starting March 1, 2013 and mentions the view of American people on the actions of President Barack Obama and the Republican Party regarding the issue.

The article reports that U.S. president Barack Obama is seeking to preserve the status quo in his second-term in office as president and rejects arguments made by Republican Party that his two programs, Medicare and Medicaid, create a nation of takers.

The article focuses on the budget negotiations in the U.S. in 1990 and the lesson learned from its failure. It says that high-stakes budget compromise can lead to greater turbulence in addressing the fiscal crisis in the country. It mentions that the effort of U.S. President Barack Obama, speaker John A. Boehner, and other main players will unlikely succeed in achieving a consensus to prevent the fiscal crisis in the area.

The article reports on a study about the influence that American spouses can have on each other's voting decisions. According to New York Times/CBS News poll, presidential challenger Mitt Romney had support from 51% of men but just 44% of women, while President Barack Obama held the backing of 52% of women but just 44% of men. Democratic pollster Geoff Garin suggests that conversations people have with their spouses will be at least as important to change the figures.

The article offers information on the activities and role of former President George W. Bush in the 2012 presidential election of the U.S. It states that apart from Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama, Bush also shaped the election of 2012. It mentions that Bush tackled on the foreign policy and economy of the country during the last presidential debate on October 22, 2012.

WASHINGTON -- While hiking the Appalachian Trail the other day, I became part of a Republican campaign attack on President Obama. Save the Mark Sanford jokes; I was (really) chaperoning a church youth group. Only after returning did I learn that my prevacation reporting about second-quarter job growth on CNBC had led off a television ad assailing Mr. Obama's economic record. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- David Axelrod, President Obama's political strategist, recently invoked a common perception about the 2012 campaign by blaming the Supreme Court for empowering 21st-century ''robber barons trying to take over the government.'' But that explanation does not account for another development that probably has been just as influential as the court's Citizens United decision in creating the flood of money into the election: the demise of the public financing system for elections, hastened by Mr. Obama's decision four years ago to abandon it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

CORRECTION APPENDED MADISON, Wis. -- In this traditionally Democratic state, where Republicans triumphed in Tuesday's failed recall of Gov. Scott Walker, President Obama holds a thin cushion against economic and political woes: the shape-shifting November electorate. Here in Dane County, which Mr. Obama carried overwhelmingly in 2008, the population has been growing at more than twice the state average. Minority voters have edged up as a share of the state population, while the number of working-class whites shrinks -- making a state Democrats have carried in six consecutive presidential elections slightly more friendly to the party. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- The currency of political persuasion is emotion -- and the way President Obama and Mitt Romney are spending it crystallizes their starkly contrasting appeals. An Obama campaign video shows the president's national political director, Katherine Archuleta, tearfully crediting Mr. Obama with having saved her daughter's life. She portrays the president as a hero of government whose health care law assures her daughter, a cancer survivor, insurance coverage forever. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- Partisan clashes over President Obama's proposed tax increases have obscured something remarkable: that the affluent Americans targeted by his policy represent a growing share of his own party's base. You would not know it from Republican cries of class warfare swirling around Mr. Obama's new budget, which reiterates his calls for higher taxes on individuals earning more than $200,000 and households earning more than $250,000. Conventional understanding of election-season populism assumes that the president will be looking to stick it to die-hard Republicans. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

MANCHESTER, N.H. -- In the sour, fearful mood that economic setbacks have produced, American voters loathe both major symbols of the forces squeezing their pocketbooks and life savings. President Obama will seek re-election vowing to rein in one of them: Wall Street. Mitt Romney will focus on the other: Washington. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

MANCHESTER, N.H. -- On the campaign trail, Mitt Romney casts himself as the guardian of American opportunity, who would stop President Obama's attempt ''to replace our merit-based society with an entitlement society.'' Mr. Romney draws inspiration from the country's founders, he argues, while Mr. Obama seeks a ''European-style welfare state'' to redistribute wealth and create ''equal outcomes'' regardless of individual effort and success. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- President Obama thrilled liberals on Tuesday when, blending Theodore Roosevelt with Occupy Wall Street, he renewed his commitment to temper untrammeled, ''you're on your own'' capitalism. The very next day, he alarmed some of the same liberals when his administration overruled the Food and Drug Administration to block over-the-counter sale of emergency contraceptives to young teenagers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON - Fighting from behind in the final days of the 2008 presidential election, Senator John McCain found a weapon in an unscripted encounter between his opponent, Senator Barack Obama, and a voter. ''When you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody,'' Mr. Obama told Samuel J. Wurzelbacher, better known as Joe the Plumber. Mr. McCain seized on the remark as evidence of Mr. Obama's adherence to ''socialism.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

William M. Daley might have picked a harder time than autumn 2011 to explain Democrats and Wall Street to each other. But could you find one? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON - The last time an incumbent president faced re-election, George W. Bush exploited social and national security issues to offset his economic vulnerabilities. Over the next year, President Obama will try the same thing. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON - President Obama's renewed engagement with Congressional Republicans this week may seem all too familiar, but it comes with a darkly unpredictable component. That is because over the summer, the ideological battles and partisan maneuvers woven into the fabric of the capital began to exert their own damaging effect on the economy, analysts from Washington to Wall Street have concluded. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

CANNON FALLS, Minn. - House Speaker John A. Boehner once explained conservatives' hard line on the debt limit this way: ''A lot of them,'' he told a radio host, believe ''enough chaos'' would make opponents yield. Chaos arrived in financial markets last week after Standard & Poor's, citing Washington gridlock, stripped the United States of its AAA credit rating. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON -- It was a day that brought fresh evidence of all the forces converging on President Obama in the latter half of his term: a weakened economy he cannot lift, a deeply divided Congress he cannot move and, as a result, a level of political risk he seems hard-pressed to control. The report on Friday that the economy grew at an anemic 1.3 percent rate in the second quarter dimmed chances of the nation's 9.2 percent unemployment rate falling quickly as Mr. Obama heads into his re-election campaign. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON - A recent Republican Party news release about President Obama, Democrats and the economy declared simply: ''They own it.'' As a matter of politics, that's indisputable. The burdens or benefits of economic conditions go to incumbents - an iron law of elections that makes Mr. Obama vulnerable in 2012. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON - Politically speaking, President Obama walks taller now that American commandos, on his order, found and killed Osama bin Laden. So what difference does that make? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON - Republicans, with justification, shouted ''hypocrisy'' last week after former White House aides opened a campaign organization using the sort of anonymous donors condemned by President Obama. But they also understood it as a compliment. That's because, in another springtime full of political disappointment, Democratic strategists have begun concluding that Mr. Obama faces a tougher-than-anticipated re-election fight. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration is preparing to inject an unpredictable new variable into its economic policy clash with Republicans: a plan to overhaul corporate taxes. Economic advisers have nearly completed the process initiated in January by the Treasury secretary, Timothy F. Geithner, at President Obama's behest. That process, intended to make the United States more competitive internationally, has explored the willingness of business leaders to sacrifice loopholes in return for lowering the top corporate tax rate, currently 35 percent. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Politicians define themselves by choosing enemies, and exemplars. Suddenly, President Obama's choices on Libya are reshaping his profile in unpredictable ways as he heads into the 2012 election season. The president and his advisers have already highlighted the central factors that influenced Mr. Obama's decision to act militarily, a process he plans to explain more fully to the nation at 7:30 p.m. Monday. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The biggest difference in this new phase of Barack Obama's presidency: he's not so needy. During 2009-10, President Obama needed a lot from Congress: a $787 billion stimulus package to counter the economic crisis, a financial regulation overhaul to prevent the next one and big health care and energy programs to fulfill his vision for future growth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Behind the numbers politicians use to wage budget battles is the clash of values. So as members of Congress begin hard bargaining with the Obama White House over spending cuts, the life experiences that shape their values represent critical determinants of the outcome. In a single generation, those experiences have shifted significantly. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For Bruce Josten, the feisty top lobbyist for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, it got personal last fall on a Sunday talk show when President Obama's spokesman invoked his name. ''They called me out'' during a White House attack on the chamber's midterm campaign efforts, Mr. Josten recalled. Mr. Obama had his own reason to take things personally; his policies were on the receiving end of a $50 million ''voter education'' barrage by the chamber, the signature lobby for American business. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

''The State of the Union surprised me,'' Representative Paul Ryan says. Instead of urgency, the Wisconsin Republican explained in an interview, President Obama offered boilerplate on deficit reduction. Mr. Ryan's response to Mr. Obama's annual address was plenty urgent, warning that a Greece-style fiscal calamity was ''around the corner.'' Yet the earnest new chairman of the House Budget Committee did not lay out any clearer path to solvency than the president did. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Suddenly, Republicans face an unanticipated problem: less than three months after their midterm triumphs, President Obama has regained political momentum. As Mr. Obama approaches the State of the Union address on Tuesday, various polls show him rising toward or beyond 50 percent approval of his job performance. Before his first 2011 clash with Republican adversaries who now share governing responsibility, those surveys also show that Americans credit Mr. Obama with greater commitment to finding common ground. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]