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Bush to Obama: 'Want you to succeed'
The Swampby Mark Silva It rained on the Rose Garden picture that President Bush hoped to take with his predecessors, including his father, and his successor, President-elect Barack Obama, at the White House today. So the nation's living and future presidents......Tags: Executive Branch, Government, The White House, George Bush
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Obama: Waste-patrol to control spending
The Swampby Peter Nicholas President-elect Barack Obama announced today that he is creating a new high-level position to wring waste and inefficiencies from government, as part of a broader push to bring more discipline to federal spending. At a news conference,.....Tags: U.S. Department of Treasury, Roland Burris, Bill Clinton, Heads of State, Diplomacy
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Obama: Stimulus not as big as some want
The Swampby Frank James President-elect Barack Obama said he expected his economic stimulus package wouldn't be near the top end of economists estimates because of growing concerns about federal deficits. At a Washington press conference where he announced his...Tags: Parliament, Roland Burris, Bill Clinton, Government, Public Relations
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Obama can't and shouldn't bully Burris
The Swampby Frank James Mark Brown, the Chicago Sun-Times columnist, argues President-elect Barack Obama should either tell Roland Burris directly, or have some tough-talking emissary (Rahm Emanuel perhaps), tell the senator-in-limbo to end his bid to be seated in...Tags: Parliament, Rahm Emanuel , Roland Burris, Government, Upper House
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Blair House: Which date bumps Obama?
The Swampby Mark Silva When we first heard that President-elect Barack Obama could not move into Blair House, the official guest house for the most valued guests of the White House sitting across the street from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, we were......Tags: Pennsylvania, Laura Bush, Tony Blair, Government, Awards and Prizes
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Jack Kemp has cancer: Report
The SwampJack Kemp, right, at a National Commission on Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity hearing at Access Chicago on Tuesday, July 15, 2008. He was accompanied by fellow former HUD secretary Henry Cisneros. (Chicago Tribune photo by Tom Van Dyke.)......Tags: Buffalo Bills, Football, Bob Dole, Baseball, Government
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Senate Dems mull 'green' spending
The SwampBy Jim Tankersley You can't cross a street in Washington these days without bumping into someone with a 12-point set of recommendations for President-elect Barack Obama and the massive economic stimulus plan he and Congressional leaders are drafting....Tags: Parliament, Government, Barbara Boxer, New York Times, Upper House
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Chamber to Congress: drill, baby, drill
The SwampBy Jim Tankersley The U.S. Chamber of Commerce will urge Congress this morning to invest heavily in so-called "clean coal" research, to expand incentives for nuclear energy and renewable fuels, and to keep its hands off domestic oil and gas......Tags: Petroleum Industry, Natural Resources, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Government, Global Warming
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Burris should be seated: Dellinger
The Swampby Frank James Democrat Roland Burris should be seated by the Democratic-controlled Senate, says the highly regarded lawyer Walter Dellinger, who headed the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel in the Clinton Administration. He makes the same...Tags: Parliament, Bribery, Executive Branch, Regional Authority, Government
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Sanjay Gupta: House (and Senate) calls
The Swampby Noam N. Levey and Matea Gold President-elect Barack Obama has asked Dr. Sanjay Gupta to be the next U.S. surgeon general, looking to a popular television personality to help provide a public face for his healthcare agenda. Best known......Tags: Hillary Clinton, Medical Services, CBS Corp., Heads of State, Government
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Obama to inherit 'broken government'
The Swamp(Photo illustration from the Center for Public Integrity "Broken Government" project.) by Frank James It's bad enough President-elect Barack Obama will assume office amid the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and two wars. But the non-...Tags: Pennsylvania, Texas, Work Relations, NASA, Labor Legislation
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Chief Performance Officer Nancy Killefer faces a political pork fight
Appointed by President-elect Barack Obama on Wednesday to the new position of chief performance officer, Nancy Killefer faces a struggle as old as government itself: vanquishing the forces of pork politics while trying to cut waste. Killefer, head of...Tags: Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Heads of State, George Washington University, Government
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