Despite the availability of assistance, 59 percent of those eligible but still uninsured said they never sought coverage. Fifty-three percent, which included individuals who tried to get coverage, said they considered it too expensive.

Both the share of employers offering coverage and the percentage of workers buying those plans has fallen since the mid-2000s, a review of insurance data by the University of Minnesota’s State Health Access Data Assistance Center finds.

Richard Trumka, the president of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, gave a keynote address Wednesday evening.

The list of potential senior Clinton tech hires also includes more than a dozen specialists with ties to the Obama White House, Clinton’s 2008 presidential bid, Democratic congressional campaign offices and the outside groups and firms that supply the party with online infrastructure.

Weeks of debate over amendments in the Senate are expected to end on Thursday, putting the Keystone bill closer to passage, and Obama’s threatened veto.

A local chapter of the climate activist group 350.org has organized a rally during Obama’s speech at the Society Hill Sheraton, where the House Democratic caucus is meeting for its annual three-day retreat.

President Barack Obama’s give-and-take on oil policy acknowledges that even with his climate change agenda, he’s benefited from an oil boom.

The Hire More Heroes Act — which unanimously passed the House earlier this month — is a far cry from the repeal moves Senate Republicans have promised to make a priority.

“Our world, captive to immediacy, uncertainty, and complexity, is not moving towards less complicated problems, but rather toward more global challenges rooted in historic injustices and conflicts," Hagel said.

The proposal would restrict how companies like Google and Facebook handle consumer data while greatly expanding the power of the FTC to police abuses.