Obama says rebranding Obamacare hard given rocky politics
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama blamed Republicans on Tuesday for contributing to the troubled rollout of his signature healthcare insurance plan and said it will be hard to “rebrand” Obamacare after his administration fixes a website use…
Obama was briefed in spring on widespread website problems
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama, who has portrayed himself as surprised by technical problems with the government’s new health care website, was briefed last spring on a detailed consultant’s report that warned of system failure, White Ho…
Sebelius says ‘Come back,’ insists Obamacare website improved
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) – U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Tuesday encouraged people looking to sign up for medical insurance under President Barack Obama’s healthcare law to return to the government’s HealthCare.gov web…
Pentagon tightens cybersecurity rules for defense contractors
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Pentagon said on Tuesday it had approved new rules that would require defense contractors to tighten their computer security procedures and to report any cyber intrusions that resulted in the loss of controlled technical info…
Obama says he does not foresee January repeat of debt-ceiling crisis
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama said on Tuesday he does not foresee a repeat in January of the “crisis” seen in October, when the federal government was shut down for 16 days and a debt default was narrowly averted.
Fed’s Yellen maintains dovish message in lawmaker letters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Janet Yellen, President Barack Obama’s nominee to lead the Federal Reserve, stressed the need to keep interest rates low and the benefits of the central bank’s bond buying in remarks released on Tuesday, underscoring her commitme…
U.S. court orders government to stop collecting nuclear waste fees
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An appeals court ruled on Tuesday that the U.S. government can no longer require nuclear power plant operators to pay fees into a nuclear waste fund, a victory for the utilities that challenged the fees.
Security risks to U.S. healthcare portal, experts testify in Congress
(Reuters) – Republicans opened a second front in their political battle against President Barack Obama’s healthcare program on Tuesday, with a coordinated effort to convince Americans not only that its main enrollment website is broken but that persona…
Clock runs out for U.S. trade promotion bill this year: lawmaker
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration’s hopes of securing “fast-track” trade negotiating authority from Congress this year look certain to be dashed given the limited time left on the congressional calendar, the No. 2 House Democrat said on T…
Secret U.S. court approved wider NSA spying even after finding excesses
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A secret U.S. intelligence court let the National Security Agency collect an expanded amount of data about Americans’ email even after finding that the agency systematically exceeded the limits of a smaller program, newly rele…
