Barack Obama
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The Obama administration yesterday issued a new executive order aimed at reducing government waste, fraud and abuse. Yesterday, we spoke to Allan Burman, the former administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy. But what…
March 05, 2009 -
CNET.com reported that the White House was abandoning YouTube as the provider of the embedded videos on President Obama’s home page in response to privacy complaints. Today, the New York Times reports that the White…
March 04, 2009 -
Members of the National Treasury Employees Union from across the country are in Washington this week for their annual three-day legislative conference. This year, it’s a chance to not only work on the union’s to…
March 03, 2009 -
President Obama is pulling troops out of Iraq, but also says a ‘residual force’ will remain through 2011. He’s adding 17,000 troops to the fight in Afghanistan. Neither of these commitments requires congressional approval. But…
March 03, 2009 -
A company that monitors peer-to-peer file sharing networks has discovered a security breach involving Marine One, according to WTOP Radio.
March 02, 2009 -
The fiscal 2010 budget summary details almost four pages on how the Obama administration is going to manage the federal government. While many of the specifics were not laid out, there is a clear path…
February 26, 2009 -
A summary of spending proposals from the Obama administration
February 26, 2009 -
Most of us listened to the president speak to a joint session of Congress last night. What does the speech mean for you and your job? Donald Kettl, a professor of political science at the…
February 25, 2009 -
President Barack Obama addressed Congress and the nation last night. The president talked about the economy and his plans for the future, including his 2010 budget proposal. Jodi Schneider, Senior Editor of Congressional Quarterly, joins…
February 25, 2009 -
President Barack Obama has a lot on his plate, and finding a balance between domestic and foreign policy is an ever-present challenge. Some critics are saying the President’s foreign policy lacks cohesion and a central…
February 24, 2009 -
President Barack Obama has vowed to cut the country\'s budget deficit in half by the end of his first term. Obama laid out the guiding principle of his budget policy at a White House conference.
February 23, 2009 -
President Obama has signed new executive orders on labor laws. Roger Waldron with Mayer Brown law firm joins us to explain the three new executive orders on labor and what impact this has.
February 18, 2009 -
House Republicans up in arms over a possible change in the management of the Census.
February 13, 2009 -
In a notice published in Wednesday\'s Federal Register, the President amended Executive Order 12859 from August 1993 by removing the AIDS Policy Coordinator and replaces it with an Assistant to the President and Chief Technology Officer
February 11, 2009 -