http://news.yahoo.com/rss-hartman/ en-US Copyright (c) 2013 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved Fri, 17 May 2013 15:01:53 -0400 5 http://news.yahoo.com/rss-hartman/ http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142c.gif Following a rough, scandal-filled week in Washington, President Barack Obama got dressed down by a bunch of kids. During a visit to Moravia Park Elementary School in Baltimore, Md., Friday, the president was asked to do another challenging task: Draw a tiger. "I got to help with one of the lessons. We were having to [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-tiger-not-gr-r-reat-190153960.htmlFri, 17 May 2013 15:01:53 -0400blogs/ticket/obama-tiger-not-gr-r-reat-190153960After a week filled with controversy and criticism, President Barack Obama left town Friday for Baltimore, the second stop on his "Middle Class Jobs & Opportunity Tour." The trip, which was previously scheduled, took him to a dredging manufacturer and an elementary school, with the next stop on the itinerary a community center. At Ellicott [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-leaves-scandals-washington-pushes-jobs-economy-baltimore-160836939.htmlFri, 17 May 2013 12:08:36 -0400blogs/ticket/obama-leaves-scandals-washington-pushes-jobs-economy-baltimore-160836939President Barack Obama on Thursday appointed Danny Werfel, an official with the Office of Management and Budget, as acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service. Werfel replaces Steven Miller, the acting commissioner forced to resign on Wednesday over the IRS having targeted conservative groups for special scrutiny. Werfel, whose appointment will be effective May 22, [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-choose-omb-official-danny-werfel-head-irs-191121420.htmlThu, 16 May 2013 15:11:21 -0400blogs/ticket/obama-choose-omb-official-danny-werfel-head-irs-191121420President Barack Obama at a press conference on Thursday strongly defended the Department of Justice's controversial secret seizure of journalists' phone records during an investigation into leaked national security information. "Leaks related to national security can put people at risk," Obama said in response to a reporter's question as he stood beside visiting Prime Minister [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-expected-answer-press-irs-amid-scandals-151152816.htmlThu, 16 May 2013 11:11:52 -0400blogs/ticket/obama-expected-answer-press-irs-amid-scandals-151152816Speaking at the 32nd annual National Peace Officers Memorial Service on Wednesday, President Barack Obama publicly honored, among others, officer Bruce St. Laurent, who died last year assisting Obama's motorcade in Florida. Laurent, a husband and father of four, was killed Sept. 9 when his police motorcycle was struck by a pickup truck as he [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-honor-fallen-police-officers-143113114.htmlWed, 15 May 2013 10:31:13 -0400blogs/ticket/obama-honor-fallen-police-officers-143113114The Department of Justice seizing reporters' phone records? The IRS apologizing for targeting conservatives? The Richard Nixon comparisons seem to write themselves—much to the joy of Republicans working to cement the association between President Barack Obama and the former scandal-plagued president. But when asked at Tuesday's press briefing about the White House's reaction to the [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/white-house-obama-no-nixon-192540874.htmlTue, 14 May 2013 15:25:40 -0400blogs/ticket/white-house-obama-no-nixon-192540874President Barack Obama on Friday touted his health care law's benefits for women, whose response to the program the White House believes will be key to its success. "So often [moms] put everything else before themselves," Obama said, tying the event, held in the White House East Room, to Mother's Day. "And that’s particularly true [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-rallies-women-around-obamacare-ahead-mother-day-183353680.htmlFri, 10 May 2013 14:33:53 -0400blogs/ticket/obama-rallies-women-around-obamacare-ahead-mother-day-183353680Some 2.4 million young voters who supported Barack Obama in his 2008 presidential race did not vote for him in 2012, according to an analysis released Friday by the Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning & Engagement (CIRCLE) at Tufts University. CIRCLE used Census data released this week combined with exit poll data [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-lost-2-4-million-young-voters-2012-161508263.htmlFri, 10 May 2013 12:15:08 -0400blogs/ticket/obama-lost-2-4-million-young-voters-2012-161508263Ahead of House Republicans' planned vote next week to repeal the Affordable Care Act—better known as "Obamacare"—in full, President Barack Obama on Friday will publicly tout what he believes is the health care law's positive impact on women. Obama's remarks, focusing on mothers and their families, is being tied to Mother's Day, according to a [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/president-tout-obamacare-benefits-women-republican-plan-repeal-000434072.htmlThu, 09 May 2013 20:04:34 -0400blogs/ticket/president-tout-obamacare-benefits-women-republican-plan-repeal-000434072As Washington remained mired in battles over immigration, the budget and other matters, President Barack Obama on Thursday kicked off a public tour focused on jobs and the economy with a visit to Texas to champion a new manufacturing initiative. In a speech at Manor New Tech High School near Austin, Texas—the first stop in [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-push-manufacturing-institutes-government-data-changes-during-133740804.htmlThu, 09 May 2013 16:00:00 -0400blogs/ticket/obama-push-manufacturing-institutes-government-data-changes-during-133740804House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., vowed Wednesday to schedule a vote next week to repeal "Obamacare"—a move that will likely amount to little more than political theater. From Cantor's Twitter account: The House will vote next week for a full repeal of #Obamacare. twitter.com/EricCantor/sta… — Eric Cantor (@EricCantor) May 8, 2013 Conservatives and other [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/house-republicans-plan-obamacare-repeal-vote-163559301.htmlWed, 08 May 2013 12:35:59 -0400blogs/ticket/house-republicans-plan-obamacare-repeal-vote-163559301It's now House Democrats' turn to be wooed by President Barack Obama. The president is scheduled to have dinner Wednesday night at the Jefferson Hotel in Washington with Democratic leadership and Democratic members of the House—the latest outreach to members of Congress dubbed a "charm offensive" by Beltway insiders. Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California, [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-dine-house-democrats-153449038.htmlWed, 08 May 2013 11:34:49 -0400blogs/ticket/obama-dine-house-democrats-153449038At a joint White House news conference with visiting South Korean President Park Geun-hye, President Barack Obama discussed issues ranging from sexual assault in the U.S. military to North Korea's security threats. Tuesday's press conference followed a private lunch and meeting with the president, Vice President Joe Biden and Park, South Korea's first female president. [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-holds-joint-press-conference-south-korean-president-170158550.htmlTue, 07 May 2013 13:01:58 -0400blogs/ticket/obama-holds-joint-press-conference-south-korean-president-170158550The White House appears to be taking the president's "charm offensive" effort to heart. It's rare to see White House officials in the White House press workspace, let alone offering sugary treats and compliments. But that's how Tuesday began for reporters camped out in the press area. "Thank you for all that you do," White [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/white-house-chief-staff-denis-mcdonough-offers-press-145051256.htmlTue, 07 May 2013 10:50:51 -0400blogs/ticket/white-house-chief-staff-denis-mcdonough-offers-press-145051256A little drizzle won't stop the president's outreach. Despite it being a rainy, gray Monday in Washington, President Barack Obama is playing a bipartisan round of golf at Andrews Air Force Base with select members of the Senate. Republican Sens. Bob Corker of Tennessee and Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, and Democratic Sen. Mark Udall of [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-plans-monday-bipartisan-golf-game-163637852.htmlMon, 06 May 2013 12:36:37 -0400blogs/ticket/obama-plans-monday-bipartisan-golf-game-163637852Employment rose by 165,000 jobs in April, according to the monthly economic report released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. And unemployment dropped slightly from 7.6 to 7.5 percent—a minimal change, but one marking a steady, .4 percent drop since January. It's the lowest unemployment rate in four years. Employment increases were seen [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/employment-rose-april-february-march-numbers-revised-upward-144053504.htmlFri, 03 May 2013 10:40:53 -0400blogs/ticket/employment-rose-april-february-march-numbers-revised-upward-144053504At the kickoff of a six-figure campaign to elect America's first female president in 2016, Emily's List President Stephanie Schriock addressed the question on everybody's mind: Will Hillary Clinton run? "There is one name that seems to be getting mentioned more than others," Schriock told reporters at the National Press Club Thursday. "We do not [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/emily-list-launches-effort-elect-female-president-hopes-145716477.htmlThu, 02 May 2013 10:57:16 -0400blogs/ticket/emily-list-launches-effort-elect-female-president-hopes-145716477Jack Hoffman, a 7-year-old whose 69-yard touchdown at a University of Nebraska-Lincoln football game exploded on the Internet, found himself in the Oval Office Monday. The Atkinson, Neb., star, who is battling brain cancer, met President Barack Obama and received a signed football from the president, according to the caption on a photo of their [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-meets-7-old-cancer-patient-youtube-star-201130608.htmlMon, 29 Apr 2013 16:11:30 -0400blogs/ticket/obama-meets-7-old-cancer-patient-youtube-star-201130608We know little about President Barack Obama’s new Commission on Election Administration except for its structure, as outlined in the executive order that explains its task is to improve voting in America, and the names of its two appointed co-chairs: Obama's former counsel Bob Bauer and Republican attorney Ben Ginsberg, who worked for Mitt Romney. [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/white-house-set-president-election-commission-motion-next-195230091.htmlMon, 29 Apr 2013 15:52:30 -0400blogs/ticket/white-house-set-president-election-commission-motion-next-195230091The White House announced Friday it has added Tumblr to its list of social media tools. The first post is titled "The White House, Tumbling Things." From the site: We see some great things here at the White House every day, and sharing that stuff with you is one of the best parts of our [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/white-house-joins-tumblr-174505697.htmlFri, 26 Apr 2013 13:45:05 -0400blogs/ticket/white-house-joins-tumblr-174505697President Barack Obama on Friday defended Planned Parenthood—the largest source of reproductive health care for women, as well as an abortion provider—against its opponents, and warned critics that the organization remains steadfast. "Planned Parenthood is not going anywhere," Obama told the 1,000 people at the group's annual national conference in Washington. "It’s not going anywhere [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-address-planned-parenthood-145150867.htmlFri, 26 Apr 2013 10:51:50 -0400blogs/ticket/obama-address-planned-parenthood-145150867President Barack Obama on Thursday afternoon told those affected by last week's fire and deadly explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant that even though the world has been focused on the twin bombings at the Boston Marathon, prayers and support are with the victims of Texas' tragedy. Though the "eyes of the world may have [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-speak-texas-memorial-victims-plant-explosion-182041836--politics.htmlThu, 25 Apr 2013 14:20:41 -0400blogs/ticket/obama-speak-texas-memorial-victims-plant-explosion-182041836--politicsVice President Joe Biden issued a damning characterization on Wednesday of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings. Speaking at a memorial service at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for slain MIT police officer Sean Collier, Biden questioned the motives behind terror attacks against the United States. "I get asked, like my colleagues, almost every [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/biden-calls-bombing-suspects-perverted-cowardly-knock-off-201921724--politics.htmlWed, 24 Apr 2013 16:19:21 -0400blogs/ticket/biden-calls-bombing-suspects-perverted-cowardly-knock-off-201921724--politicsWith deep federal spending cuts known as the sequester beginning to affect air travel and forcing some public-sector layoffs, the White House on Wednesday seemed to offer public support for Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's proposal to temporarily pay down the sequester without generating new tax revenue. White House officials previously stated the president [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/white-house-announces-support-reid-plan-temporarily-offset-183545468--politics.htmlWed, 24 Apr 2013 14:35:45 -0400blogs/ticket/white-house-announces-support-reid-plan-temporarily-offset-183545468--politicsThere were no explosions, no rush of panic at the White House just after 1 p.m. on Tuesday. A look in the White House press basement would have yielded the same results you'd find any day around that time: Reporters cramped together, awaiting the much-delayed daily briefing (which, on this particular day, was 30 minutes [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/calm-white-house-ap-hacked-twitter-account-said-180859938--politics.htmlTue, 23 Apr 2013 14:08:59 -0400blogs/ticket/calm-white-house-ap-hacked-twitter-account-said-180859938--politicsPresident Barack Obama will keynote Planned Parenthood's annual gala on Thursday night, the abortion rights group announced on Tuesday. “President Obama has done more than any president in history for women’s health and rights,” Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, said in a statement. “We are honored to have President Obama join [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-keynote-planned-parenthood-gala-145014095--politics.htmlTue, 23 Apr 2013 10:50:14 -0400blogs/ticket/obama-keynote-planned-parenthood-gala-145014095--politicsMark Sanford apparently decided the best way to battle charges of trespassing on ex-wife Jenny Sanford's property was to purchase a full-page newspaper ad. “It’s been a rough week," the former South Carolina governor writes in the ad in Charleston's Post & Courier, which aims to clear the air as he heads into a competitive [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/mark-sanford-takes-full-page-ad-offers-cell-205227328--election.htmlMon, 22 Apr 2013 16:52:27 -0400blogs/ticket/mark-sanford-takes-full-page-ad-offers-cell-205227328--electionIn its first foray into the social media site Vine, the White House chose Monday to include an interesting image: President Barack Obama endlessly pedaling a bicycle going nowhere. The president rides a bike-powered water filtration system at the #whsciencefair: vine.co/v/bPZJTgQPjjP — The White House (@whitehouse) April 22, 2013 As part of its ongoing quest [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/white-house-adds-vine-jill-biden-twitter-account-173524250--politics.htmlMon, 22 Apr 2013 13:35:24 -0400blogs/ticket/white-house-adds-vine-jill-biden-twitter-account-173524250--politicsPresident Barack Obama on Thursday delivered a message in Boston to those in the city touched by Monday's deadly bombings, as well as to individuals worldwide watching the country's response: We will persevere. “This doesn’t stop us," Obama said at an interfaith service at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston's South End held [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-speak-boston-vigil-bombing-victims-141321374--politics.htmlThu, 18 Apr 2013 10:13:21 -0400blogs/ticket/obama-speak-boston-vigil-bombing-victims-141321374--politicsSenate Majority Leader Harry Reid, an NRA supporter, announced on Wednesday morning he will vote for bans on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines being offered as amendments one month after pulling those bans from a package of overall gun-reform legislation. "I will vote for [Sen.] Dianne Feinstein’s assault weapons ban," Reid announced on the Senate [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/harry-reid-vote-assault-weapon-high-capacity-magazine-135811961--politics.htmlWed, 17 Apr 2013 09:58:11 -0400blogs/ticket/harry-reid-vote-assault-weapon-high-capacity-magazine-135811961--politicsPresident Barack Obama will travel to Boston Thursday morning to attend a service for victims of the bombings at the Boston Marathon, the White House announced Tuesday. The president will "speak at an interfaith service dedicated to those who were gravely wounded or killed in Monday’s bombing near the finish line of the Boston Marathon," [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-schedules-trip-attend-boston-bomb-victims-212756992--politics.htmlTue, 16 Apr 2013 17:27:56 -0400blogs/ticket/obama-schedules-trip-attend-boston-bomb-victims-212756992--politicsPresident Barack Obama continued to receive updates from his staff overnight on Monday's deadly explosions at the Boston Marathon, according to a White House statement Tuesday morning: Overnight, the President received updates from his Assistant for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Lisa Monaco on the ongoing response efforts and investigation into the explosions in Boston, including [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-briefed-overnight-boston-marathon-explosions-121330205--politics.htmlTue, 16 Apr 2013 08:13:30 -0400blogs/ticket/obama-briefed-overnight-boston-marathon-explosions-121330205--politicsWhite House press secretary Jay Carney on Monday said President Barack Obama knows about the Philadelphia murder trial of former abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell, but declined to offer specific comment. Gosnell has been charged with third-degree murder in the 2009 death of Karnamaya Mongar, who prosecutors allege was given a lethal dosage of anesthesia and [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/white-house-says-president-t-gosnell-case-185427398--politics.htmlMon, 15 Apr 2013 14:54:27 -0400blogs/ticket/white-house-says-president-t-gosnell-case-185427398--politicsWhether you're busy putting the finishing touches on your tax return today, filing that extension or even if you finished everything ahead of time, you may be wondering how exactly all those taxes you pay are being spent. The White House is once again offering an answer. Each tax day since 2011, the White House [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/taxpayer-dollars-being-spent-133402473--politics.htmlMon, 15 Apr 2013 09:34:02 -0400blogs/ticket/taxpayer-dollars-being-spent-133402473--politicsShe didn't get that call from the president, but the pretend veep did get to have lunch with the real veep at the White House Friday. Vice President Joe Biden invited actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who plays Vice President Selina Meyer in HBO's "Veep," to the White House for lunch Friday ahead of her show's season [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/biden-lunches-veep-star-julia-louis-dreyfus-204034576--politics.htmlFri, 12 Apr 2013 16:40:34 -0400blogs/ticket/biden-lunches-veep-star-julia-louis-dreyfus-204034576--politicsUPDATED 2:25 p.m. Democratic Rep. Steve Cohen of Tennessee claimed Friday that he sent tweets to pop singer Cyndi Lauper, including one calling her "hot," and deleted them in order to draw the attention of a website that monitors politicians' deleted tweets. The website would then publicize the tweets to Lauper, Cohen claimed, fooling the [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/congressman-hold-press-conference-cyndi-lauper-tweets-161002369--politics.htmlFri, 12 Apr 2013 14:42:26 -0400blogs/ticket/congressman-hold-press-conference-cyndi-lauper-tweets-161002369--politicsUPDATED 3:13 pm ET Instead of delivering his weekly address to the nation, President Barack Obama has asked Francine Wheeler, whose son was killed in the Dec. 14 mass shooting in Newtown, Conn., to deliver the remarks, which will air Saturday. Obama personally tweeted the news after it was first announced by White House press [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-asks-mother-newtown-victim-deliver-weekly-address-172635121--politics.htmlFri, 12 Apr 2013 13:26:35 -0400blogs/ticket/obama-asks-mother-newtown-victim-deliver-weekly-address-172635121--politicsAs the Supreme Court debates the constitutionality of gay marriage issues and politician after politician comes out in support of same-sex marriage, a new poll (pdf) finds that a majority of Americans—53 percent—believe same sex couples should be able to marry and increasing numbers say they know someone who is gay. Forty-two percent of respondents [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/53-percent-americans-support-gay-marriage-poll-finds-144319219--politics.htmlFri, 12 Apr 2013 10:43:19 -0400blogs/ticket/53-percent-americans-support-gay-marriage-poll-finds-144319219--politicsThe campaign for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday deplored reports that liberal activist group Progress Kentucky was behind an audiotape published Tuesday by liberal news website Mother Jones of a private meeting between Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and top advisers. "WFPL's reports that left-wing activists illegally recorded a private meeting inside our [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/democrat-claims-progress-kentucky-behind-audiotape-mitch-mcconnell-184416227--election.htmlThu, 11 Apr 2013 14:44:16 -0400blogs/ticket/democrat-claims-progress-kentucky-behind-audiotape-mitch-mcconnell-184416227--electionIt's not often you hear rap lyrics recited in the White House briefing room. But Thursday's press briefing quickly turned into a dissection of Jay-Z's latest lyrics. I turned Havana to Atlanta... Boy from the hood I got White House clearance... Obama said "chill, you gonna get me impeached" But you don't need this [expletive] [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/carney-jay-z-guess-nothing-rhymes-treasury-173929305--politics.htmlThu, 11 Apr 2013 13:39:29 -0400blogs/ticket/carney-jay-z-guess-nothing-rhymes-treasury-173929305--politics