This is the VOA Special English Education Report. President Obama signed legislation Tuesday to provide twenty-six billion dollars to the states for education and healthcare. The measure includes ten billion dollars for education and sixteen billion...
SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: Welcome to the MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. During the second half of the nineteenth century, the United States was not concerned much with events in other countries. It was too busy dealing with ev...
President Barack Obama speaks to members of the National Governors Association at the White House, 22 Feb. 2010 President Barack Obama has invited congressional Republicans to a meeting Thursday on health care reform, his latest effort at cultivating...
Standing in front of members of law enforcement Gov. Jan Brewer, the Republican Arizona governor, talks about signing immigration bill SB1070 into law Friday, April 23, 2010, in Phoenix A tough new immigration law has been enacted in the Southwestern...
President Barack Obama makes a statement to reporters at the White House, after he phoned Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to discuss the new START treaty, 26 Mar 2010 Watch: Robinson video report Windows Media President Barack Obama says the new nu...
From NPR News in Washington, Im Lakshmi Singh. Leaders on Capitol Hill are condemning threats and vandalism against lawmakers. Most of the threats have centered around those who voted for health care overhaul. NPRs Sonari Glinton reports a prominent...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Korva Coleman. President Obama met with Republican and Democratic lawmakers at the White House today. They discussed job creation programs, health care and cutting the deficit. I'm gonna continue to seek the best idea...
SCOTT BROWN, REPUBLICAN SENATE CANDIDATE: This is my truck. I put a lot of miles on it during this campaign. ACOSTA: Coakley's challenger, the pickup-driving Republican State lawmaker Scott Brown, has the backing of frustrated Tea Party voters. UNIDE...
The greater threat is that al-Qaida is adapting their methods in ways that often times make it difficult to detect. - CIA Director Leon Panetta America's top intelligence officials have delivered a sobering assessment to Congress, saying that the al-...
By Dan Robinson Washington 10 October 2009 President Barack Obama speaks about winning the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, in the Rose Garden of the White House, 09 Oct 2009 In the U.S. Congress, there has been a mix of reaction to the awarding of the Nobel...
