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Posted by admin on April 1, 2010 · Leave a Comment
It’s that time. Time to fill out your census form and send it back. In fact, today is the deadline to complete the form and drop it in the mail. The White House
has released this photo of the President filling out the 10 question form.
About 62 million households, or 52%, have mailed in the 10-question [...]
Posted by admin on March 29, 2010 · Leave a Comment
President Barack Obama plans to mark the start of Passover with a private Seder in the executive mansion.
Obama and first lady Michelle Obama invited friends and White House aides to mark the Jewish holiday with a meal on Monday. The Obama aides started the tradition during 2008’s primary campaign in Pennsylvania; Obama made a [...]
Posted by admin on March 24, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has held talks with US President Barack Obama–their first meeting since a row over plans to build homes in East Jerusalem.
Differences remain between Israel and the US, following Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s
visit to Washington, the White House has said.
President Obama urged the Israeli PM to take steps to build confidence [...]
Posted by admin on March 23, 2010 · Leave a Comment
The remarkable change in political fortunes thrust Obama into a period of uncertainty and demonstrated the ability of one person to control the balance of power in Washington. On Jan. 19, that person seemed to be Brown. But as the next 61 days would show, culminating in Sunday night’s historic vote, the fate [...]
Posted by admin on March 15, 2010 · 1 Comment
House Democrats wary of the Senate health care bill find themselves in a quandary.
Now that the Senate parliamentarian has made clear to Democrats that they won’t be able to take the path they had considered to get a health care bill passed, they must ask themselves: If we vote for the Senate’s bill, do [...]
Posted by admin on March 3, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Rahm Emanuel is officially a Washington caricature. He’s the town’s resident leviathan, a bullying, bruising White House chief of staff who is a prime target for the failings of the Obama administration.
But a contrarian narrative is emerging: Emanuel is a force of political reason within the White House and could have helped the administration [...]
Posted by admin on February 26, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Desiree Rogers, who came under fire last year for a security breakdown at a White House state dinner last year, will resign as White House social secretary next month.
Rogers was heavily criticized for the White House gate-crashing scandal in which a celebrity-seeking couple from northern Virginia got into the exclusive Nov. 24 affair on the [...]
Posted by admin on February 22, 2010 · Leave a Comment
President Barack Obama is trying to revive his stalled national health care overhaul by taking the fight to the private insurance companies.
The Obama administration will propose legislation that would allow the government to block excessive rate hikes by health insurance companies, a senior administration official said.
The official could not speak on the record because [...]
Posted by admin on February 18, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Barack Obama, the US president, has met the Dalai Lama, despite a warning from China that talks with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader could strain ties.
The meeting, which took place at the White House on Thursday, was intended to be a low-key affair closed to the media.
But it is likely to affect ties with Beijing, [...]
Posted by admin on February 17, 2010 · Leave a Comment
US President Barack Obama will Thursday sign an executive order establishing a bipartisan commission to find ways to reduce the gaping US budget deficit, a White House official said.
The official, who requested anonymity because the president had not yet made the announcement, said the co-chairs of the commission will be Democrat Erskine Bowles, former White [...]
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