Agence France-Presse: US President Barack Obama, joined by visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel, touted a climate change bill being debated by Congress Friday as representing “enormous progress” but said more needed to be done. “I’m the first one to acknowledge that the United States over the last several years has not been where we need to be,” Obama said at a White House news conference after meeting with Merkel. But he said the bill before the House of Representatives that would create a “cap …