Obama Pushes Immigration Reform, Farm Bill

President Obama “urged his Republican adversaries to view the end of the government shutdown and debt ceiling battles of recent weeks as new opportunities for bipartisan compromise in the weeks ahead,” the New York Times reports.

“Obama declared that the ‘full faith and credit of the United States remains unquestioned.’ But he pleaded for a new spirit of cooperation in Washington that did not undermine government as an institution. He proposed working this year on developing a long-term budget, agreeing on an immigration overhaul and passing a new farm bill.”