Barack Obama, Governors | featured news

U.S. President Barack Obama sought on Monday to bolster political support for the $787 billion economic package, telling the nation's governors that the money would go out quickly and be spent wisely.

While some U.S. governors were embracing the housing plan President Barack Obama announced last week, as a way to bolster their own assistance efforts, others worried that the plan is unfair.

An array of Republican governors said they would reject at least some of the funding available under the Obama administration's economic-stimulus package.

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn Roland Burris should resign from the U.S. Senate for the good of the state and a new senator should be chosen by special election to fill the seat once held by Barack Obama.

Most Republican governors have broken with their GOP colleagues in Congress and are pushing for passage of President Barack ...