Obama Defends Health Care Plan, Calls on Increased Cross-Border Cooperation

President Obama continued to tout his health care agenda and expressed optimism that immigration reform would be achieved by next year. On his second trip to Mexico for a summit with Mexico's President Felipe Calderon and Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the president hailed the three country's economic partnership. "We reaffirmed the need to reject protectionism," Obama said in a press conference following his meeting with the two leaders in Guadalajara, Mexico. "We need to expand that...Full Story