Barack Obama

  • 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
  • GOP concerned over Chief of Staff involvement

    February 10, 2009
  • As expected most of the reaction to President Obama expected nomination of Vivek Kundra as the next OMB administrator for e-government and IT has been optimism. But there has been a lot of questions about…

    February 05, 2009
  • Nancy Killefer withdrew her nomination to serve as chief performance officer, after coming forward with concerns about her personal taxes. President Obama picked Killefer last month to serve at OMB. David Mark, Senior Editor for…

    February 03, 2009
  • Questions over how we produce energy and how we consume it continue, as President Obama lays out his economic stimulus plan. The plan includes a $32 billion dollar proposal to transform the U.S. Energy grid,…

    January 28, 2009
  • The president’s confidant – not the deputy president. That’s how Joe Biden sees his role as vice president to President Barack Obama. Biden says he hopes he can help the president shape policy. And Biden…

    January 28, 2009
  • President Obama has laid out his priorities for tackling the nation’s health care challenges. We’ll find out if lawmakers agree with his plans after the vote takes place later today. We want to get some…

    January 28, 2009
  • President Obama ordered the closing of the Guantanamo Bay Prison within a year. The president signed an executive order today directing the CIA to stop holding terrorism suspects for months and years and to now…

    January 22, 2009
  • Moving from the transition to governing: what\'s ahead for the new Obama Administration?

    January 21, 2009
  • President Barack Obama was sworn in as our 44th President a little after noon today. Tom Shoop is editor in chief of Government Executive and is here now to give us an Inauguration round-up.

    January 20, 2009
  • President Barack Obama has promised to make public service “cool” again. Colleen Kelley, president of the National Treasury Employees Union, has said that the previous administration wasn’t very friendly to feds. What does she think…

    January 20, 2009
  • FederalNewsRadio’s Max Cacas has been following the events of this Inauguration Day, and joins us with a look at the Inauguration of now President Barack Obama.

    January 20, 2009
  • Transition website flips to governing resource

    January 20, 2009
  • President-elect taps prominent former fed to promote volunteer community service.

    January 12, 2009
  • New chief performance officer has more data than ever on agency execution

    January 09, 2009