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Blog Entries for Wednesday, August 31
Obama Jobs Game Plan
The Obama campaign sent out an email to supporters on Wednesday night, trying to build support for plans the President will announce next week on jobs and economic growth. The underlying message of the email missive was to go out and challenge Republicans on how they would create new job ...
White House Accepts Sept. 8 Speech
After battling with Republicans in Congress over a date and time for a Presidential speech to a Joint Session of Congress, the White House on Wednesday night accepted Speaker John Boehner's offer to hear from President Obama next Thursday night, September 8th. Here is a statement from White House Press ...
Try Again, Mr. President
It's not often that a White House publicly asks to be invited to speak to a Joint Session of Congress without working out a date with Congressional leaders. And it's not often that the Congress tells a President to find a different date. But that's what happened on Wednesday in ...
Labor Day Push
President Obama's request to address a Joint Session of Congress next week was a decision straight out of the Obama Administration's playbook of recent years, as officials try to push for action by lawmakers - this time on jobs and economic growth. In 2009, Mr. Obama used a post-Labor Day ...
More Shutdown Fights
President Obama tries to get the public relations jump on Congress today on a pair of laws that expire in September, dealing with airports and highway projects. "The President will hold an event to call on Congress to move forward in a bipartisan way to pass a clean extension of ...
Blog Entries for Tuesday, August 30
White House-Irene
The head of FEMA will be on the road again on Wednesday, checking out damage from Hurricane Irene in New York and New Jersey, a day after Administrator Craig Fugate visited Vermont to see the severe damage in that state. Aboard Air Force One on Tuesday, reporters asked White House ...
Fast and Furious Changes
The investigation into the controversial gun-running program known as Operation Fast and Furious took an interesting turn on Tuesday, as the acting head of the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms was moved into a new job and the U.S. Attorney from Arizona resigned from his post. The announcements were ...
Disaster Aid Budgets
The trail of destruction from Hurricane Irene could spark a battle in Congress that we haven't seen for a number of years, as Republicans make noise about forcing budget cuts to pay for any new disaster relief spending by Uncle Sam. Standard operating procedure in the Congress for generations has ...
62 Weeks To Go
With the November 2012 elections just over 14 months away, there's more poll data suggesting possible trouble for President Obama and more numbers showing a real surge by Texas Gov. Rick Perry on the Republican side. The Gallup daily tracking numbers for President Obama's job approval rating reached new lows ...
Blog Entries for Monday, August 29
FEMA Director on Irene
The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency met with reporters at the White House on Monday, giving his latest review on how the federal government handled Hurricane Irene. This transcript of the Q&A with FEMA Director Craig Fugate was provided by the White House: ADMINISTRATOR FUGATE: Well, good afternoon. ...
Blog Entries for Sunday, August 28
Hurricane Relief Politics
The Obama Administration clearly made an all out push in recent days on Hurricane Irene to try to make sure that disaster efforts weren't bungled in a way that might draw paralells to past disaster relief troubles like work in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. After cutting his vacation short ...
Open For Business
Even though many thousands of people are still without power in the Washington, D.C. area after Hurricane Irene, the federal government will be open for business as usual on the final Monday in August. "Federal agencies in the Washington, DC, area are OPEN," said a note posted late Sunday on ...
Blog Entries for Friday, August 19
Another Working Vacation
There's been some controversy in recent days over President Obama's vacation in Martha's Vineyard, and whether it is appropriate for him to leave Washington, D.C. at this time. If you go back a few years, the same was happening when President George W. Bush was getting ready to leave town. ...
Blog Entries for Thursday, August 18
The Obama Vacation
As President Obama flew to Martha's Vineyard on Thursday afternoon, White House officials said he would be taking time from his summer break to focus on upcoming plans on jobs and the economy. Here is the partial transcript of a Q&A with White House spokesman Josh Earnest from Air Force ...
To The Vineyard
With a three day bus trip in the Midwest over, President Obama will now turn his attention to a summer break, as the First Family now heads to Martha's Vineyard for a more than one week August vacation on that exclusive island. These summer trips in August for a President ...
Blog Entries for Wednesday, August 17
The Wisconsin Message
Ending what has been the largest set of statewide recall elections ever held in the United States, Democrats Tuesday night held on to two seats in the Wisconsin state Senate, but still fell short of taking back that legislative body from the GOP. Last week, Democrats were able to flip ...
Blog Entries for Tuesday, August 16
Obama v Perry
For a good chunk of Tuesday, President Obama and Gov. Rick Perry of Texas were no more than an hour apart in Iowa, as the White House took its first jabs at the newest candidate in the race for the Republican nomination. "I guess the only comment I have is ...
Health Reform - What's Next
Last week's ruling by a three judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals almost insures that the Obama health reform law will reach the U.S. Supreme Court, but the timing of that remains unclear at best. The Obama Administration can choose to appeal last Friday's decision to the ...
Blog Entries for Monday, August 15
2012 GOP Update
Whether you think the Iowa Straw Poll is an important event or a lot of political fluff, it did demonstrate the relative state of the race for the White House on the Republican side, especially with the withdrawal of Tim Pawlenty. The victory of Michele Bachmann could make her the ...
Blog Entries for Sunday, August 14
Tim Pawlenty Out
After a disappointing third place finish in the Iowa Straw Poll on Saturday, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty announced that he was giving up his bid for the White House, becoming the first real casualty of the 2012 race for the White House. "I'm going to be ending my campaign ...
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