On his bus tour, President Barack Obama said the federal health care law's individual mandate, which requires every American to purchase health insurance, "should not be controversial."

President Barack Obama told an audience on the first stop of his bus tour that his original deficit reduction plan could have solved the nation's debt problem "tomorrow" but House Speaker John Boehner walked away from the deal.

President Barack Obama on Thursday toured a vehicle battery plant in Michigan, touting his administration's focus on green technology and jobs, at a corporation where federal money authorized by the economic stimulus law that Obama signed at the beginning of his presidency had created "green" jobs at a cost of about $2 million in federal subsidies per job.