But the ill will seemed to dissipate a bit this year, as he signed into law sweeping bills on education, highways, the Export-Import Bank, and a massive spending bill that raises defense and domestic budget caps and also averts a government shutdown.
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The House and Senate are rushing to send President Barack Obama a massive budget package that would fund the entire government through September 2016 and shower tax breaks on working families, businesses and a wide…
In a White House blog post Friday the Obama administration said commutations mean the president has shortened sentences for more people than the past five presidents combined.
Before heading to Hawaii for a family vacation, President Obama took questions from the press and summed up how he thinks the year went, in addition to explaining what he wanted to accomplish during his last year in office.
The president addressed reporters for what will likely be the last time in 2015.
President Obama today commuted the federal prison sentences of 95 men and women, all but two of them drug offenders serving Draconian sentences. “I think it’s preferable if I can get stuff done with Congress”.
“Now, do I think there’s going to be a lot of noise and campaigning next year about how we’re going to stop Paris in its tracks?”
Byrd said that she called Jones from her vehicle with the news shortly before Obama made his announcement.
At the traditional end-of-year news conference Friday afternoon, Obama began with a list of achievements, including the legalization of same-sex marriage across America and progress made toward addressing global climate change.
As the press conference ended, Obama told reporters, “Okay, everybody, I got to get to Star Wars”; the White House is hosting a screening for military families.
Obama’s acknowledgement that the country is vulnerable to continued attack is unlikely to settle an American public spooked by the prospect of fresh strikes by radical Islamists.
He added, “In 2016 I’m going to leave it out all on the field”.
“We’re going to be able to fund environmental protection, make sure we’re investing in things like early childhood education and implement the Clean Power Plan rule”, Mr. Obama said.
“Some people of Congress might react strongly when they see 95 people are getting out of prison, but we have to remember people change in prison, better themselves, and deserve a second chance”, Gill said.
And at some point he says he’ll present a plan to skeptical members of Congress on how to close Guantanamo.
Amid widespread fears about terrorism and extremist, Obama pushed back against critics questioning his strategy for defeating the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, arguing that “there’s only so much bombing you can do”.
“Unfinished business”… President Obama said his successes have been tempered by a lack of progress on other priorities, like closing the Guantánamo Bay detention centre. She said she couldn’t help but feel “like we were a throw in” after reading that the president was stopping in San Bernardino while en route to Hawaii for his annual holiday getaway. He vowed that the White House will wait for Congress to review that plan before his administration announces whether it will indeed use executive action to shutter the facility, but acknowledged he faces an “uphill battle” convincing Republicans to support it.
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“They’re all representative of the strength and the unity and the love that exists in the community and in this community”, Obama said.
