News roundup: Calling for cooperation, Obama engages in confrontation with GOP … Republican lawmakers accuse Yellen of playing politics … Rivals hit Houston oil exporter that opened US spigot

    Louder than words: Amid appeals for bipartisanship, President Barack Obama in just three days has provoked Republicans on issues as disparate as immigration, Wall Street and the Keystone XL pipeline 


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