Rep. Michael Grimm’s threat to throw a reporter over a balcony puts him in the ranks of other politicians who have lost their cool with journalists.
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President Barack Obama said on Tuesday he would not wait for Congress to pass legislation to advance his policy priorities this year and said he was “getting close” to finishing a review of U.S. surveillance practices to be unveiled on Friday. Obama, speaking to reporters during a cabinet meeting at the White House, listed goals for 2014 including immigration reform and getting the economy to improve faster.
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According to a Senate Democratic leadership aide, The U.S. Senate has set a Monday vote on President Barack Obama’s choice of Janet Yellen to chair the Federal Reserve and replace Ben Bernanke. The Senate is expected to vote at around 5:30 p.m. EST (2230 GMT) Monday on Yellen, who would become the first woman to chair the U.S. central bank. On December 20, the Senate voted 59-34 to move forward with the nomination, indicating she had enough support to win confirmation. Bernanke’s second four-year term expires on January 31.
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President Barack Obama signed a long-awaited budget agreement and a major defense spending bill into law while vacationing in Hawaii. There’s more work to be done, though, on fiscal matters: the budget legislation only sets the levels at which spending will sit. Obama also signed into law the defense authorization legislation for next year, a major spending bill that sets military spending and policy for the next year.
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President Barack Obama will meet with Senate leaders from both parties on Tuesday ahead of international talks this week on Iran’s nuclear program and as senators consider legislation to impose new sanctions on Tehran, the White House said. “Tomorrow at the White House, the President will meet with leadership and the chairmen and ranking members of the Senate Banking Committee, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senate Armed Services, and Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to provide an update on the status of the P5+1 negotiations with Iran before the next round of talks begin later this week in Geneva,” Bernadette Meehan, a spokeswoman for the White House National Security Council, said in a statement.
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While Iran, Syria, the Israelis and Palestinians remain priorities, President Obama and his team appear to be developing a lower key Middle East agenda. National Security Adviser Susan Rice said in an interview with The New York Times, “We can’t just be consumed 24/7 by one region, important as it is,” Rice continued. “He thought it was a good time to step back and reassess, in a very critical and kind of no-holds-barred way, how we conceive the region.”
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Justin Bieber is getting rid of some of his bad influences once and for all. Many of Bieber?s fans have attributed his bad behavior this year to his new friends, aspiring rappers Lil Twist and Lil Za. The pair reportedly turned the singer onto recreational drugs and a hard-partying lifestyle, but the Beebs has dumped both of them as friends and banned them from his California mansion after expensive jewelry went missing at his home in Calabasas.
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President Barack Obama said in an interview that he won’t negotiate with congressional Republicans over the U.S. government’s borrowing limit. Obama told ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos that he would not cooperate with House Speaker John Boehner’s demand for budget cuts in exchange for House Republicans’ allowing the government to continue paying its obligations.
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A top official said that France, one of the staunchest supporters of a Western strike on Syria, would not go it alone and instead wait for Congress to decide whether to punish the government of Bashar Assad for a gas attack killed hundreds.
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A top official said that France, one of the staunchest supporters of a Western strike on Syria, would not go it alone and instead wait for Congress to decide whether to punish the government of Bashar Assad for a gas attack killed hundreds.
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