Executive Branch

President Barack Obama prepares to sign a document after speaking at General Electric's Waukesha, Wis. gas engine plant, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014. The trip is part of a four-stop tour President Barack Obama is making to expand themes from his State of the Union address. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)

Obama’s next executive action: A ‘fair shot’ for long-term unemployed

Brian Hughes · January 31, 2014 5:00 am

President Obama's assertion that he will use his "pen and phone" to push policy sounded like a threat to Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Sen. Rand Paul: Obama’s ‘pen and phone’ push ‘sounds vaguely like a threat’

Zack Colman · January 26, 2014 5:00 am

President Obama holds up a pen as he speaks. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Beltway Confidential

Dan Pfeiffer: ‘President Obama is ready to use every executive action available’

Charlie Spiering · January 14, 2014 5:00 am

President Barack Obama, center, gestures as he speaks to media before his Cabinet meeting, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014, in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington. From left are, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, . (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama not ‘waiting for legislation’ to push agenda

Brian Hughes · January 14, 2014 5:00 am

Beltway Confidential

Mike Lee photo depicts a nation of federal regulations

Joel Gehrke · January 13, 2014 5:00 am

District Court Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle, pictured here in Washington in May 2008, sided with the Center for Effective Government. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Examiner Editorial: Federal judge was right to reject Obama’s ‘secret law’ claim

Editorial Writer · December 18, 2013 5:00 am

A president with a fleet of drones, a "kill list" and databases of Americans' personal information has enough power. (Getty Images File)

David Brooks’ paean to presidential power is year’s worst op-ed

Gene Healy · December 17, 2013 5:00 am

President Obama on Thursday welcomed the late-night Senate confirmation of Nina Pillard to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, the latest successful appointment for the White House in the wake of new rules for approving executive nominations. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama hails confirmation of Nina Pillard to DC Circuit Court

Brian Hughes · December 12, 2013 5:00 am

President Obama announces the nomination of three potential judges to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals,ÃÂ in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on June 4. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Beltway Confidential

With John Podesta, new judges, Obama poised for aggressive use of executive power

Joel Gehrke · December 11, 2013 5:00 am

White House deputy press secretary Josh Earnest on Tuesday declined to rule out the possibility President Obama would use executive order to enact immigration reforms. (AP Photo)

White House won’t rule out executive action on immigration

Meghashyam Mali · November 26, 2013 5:00 am

President Obama and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew have objected to a measure that includes language banning the Treasury from using "extraordinary measures" to create headroom under the debt ceiling in the future. (AP File)

Banning ‘extraordinary measures’ could reduce default risk

Joseph Lawler · October 15, 2013 4:00 am

President Barack Obama greets people after speaking about the Affordable Care Act during an event in the East Room of the White House on Thursday. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Obamacare battle takes bizarre turns

Byron York · July 18, 2013 4:00 am