The latest Barack Obama news from The Texas Tribune.
Use our data visualizations to see how Gov. Rick Perry has financially performed so far in his first political effort at the national level, and compare his efforts with the other Republican candidates and with President Obama. Full Story
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This interactive table shows how much stimulus funding was awarded to state agencies, how it was received and spent, and the number of jobs created or retained with the money, according to quarterly reports filed by recipients of stimulus funds. Full Story
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Gov. Rick Perry's presidential campaign has produced an online attack ad aimed at Mitt Romney, accusing him of providing a blueprint for President Barack Obama's federal health care reform plan with the program he signed into law as governor of Massachusetts. Full Story
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Texas’s congressional Republicans seized on new unemployment numbers to decry President Obama’s economic policies days after he stopped in Mesquite to sell his jobs plan. Full Story
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On the 100th episode of the TribCast, Ross, Reeve, Ben and Mark discuss the coverage of Gov. Rick Perry's hunting camp, President Barack Obama's visit to Texas and the upcoming Republican debate. Full Story
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MESQUITE — While speaking at Eastfield College today, President Barack Obama invoked the name of a laid-off Texas teacher and challenged GOP House Majority Leader Eric Cantor to bring up the American Jobs Act for a vote on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. Full Story
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President Obama delivered an impassioned defense of his jobs plan in Mesquite — and strong rhetoric against his GOP critics. Full Story
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Rick Perry's campaign has released a video in anticipation of President Obama's scheduled visits to Dallas and Mesquite today. The video mocks the president's 2009 stimulus plan before highlighting Perry's "four core principles" for creating jobs. Full Story
President Obama, scheduled to push his jobs plan today in Dallas, is stepping into politically hostile territory to challenge Gov. Rick Perry on what the Perry campaign believes is the Texan's strongest issue: job creation. Full Story
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Gov. Rick Perry’s suggestion he might be in favor of sending the U.S. military into Mexico to quell cartel-related violence elicited a variety of reactions, from outright dismissal to praise that he had brought the issue to the forefront of the presidential campaign. Full Story
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Protesters gathered outside the Headliners Club in Austin to urge U.S. House Speaker John Boehner and Congress to pass the American Jobs Act. Boehner was in Austin to attend a reception with several GOP congressmen from Texas. Full Story
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The former head of the U.S. Armed Forces Southern Command said Monday that if the U.S. does not provide more support to Mexico, that country's next presidential administration may have no choice but to make a deal with cartel leaders. Full Story
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President Obama faces a conundrum: On immigration he's attacked from the left and the right, by disillusioned Latino critics and by conservatives who accuse him of failing to secure the country's borders — even as he deports a record number of immigrants. Full Story
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Rick Perry's presidential campaign today released an ad contrasting its characterization of Barack Obama's first years in office with the Texas governor's promise of national renewal through new leadership. Full Story
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Gov. Rick Perry will speak at Liberty University on Wednesday, and the Christian school's president and chancellor, Jerry Falwell Jr., son of the school's famous founder, predicts Perry will find a very receptive audience among its students. Full Story
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President Obama sent a $447 billion jobs bill to Congress today — his latest attempt to revive the struggling economy. How will Texas be affected? Full Story
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At last Friday's TribLive conversation, U.S. Senate candidate Ted Cruz talked about President Obama's jobs speech, Social Security and the debt ceiling debate. Full Story
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At our latest TribLive conversation, U.S. Senate candidate Ted Cruz talked about President Obama's jobs speech — and what he would do differently. Full Story
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At our latest TribLive conversation, U.S. Senate candidate Ted Cruz talked about the debt ceiling debate — why he would have voted no and why the threat of default was political theater. Full Story
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At our latest TribLive conversation, U.S. Senate candidate Ted Cruz talked about President Obama's jobs speech, Social Security, the debt ceiling debate and his chief rival in the GOP primary, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst. Full Story