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By not in system - AOL News(March 8) -- To defense experts, "NPR" stands not for "National Public Radio" but for the "Nuclear Posture Review" -- the reassessment of nuclear weapons policy U.S. presidents customarily undertake upon taking office. NPRs produce guidance used to direct management of the U.S. nuclear weapons infrastructure, Pentagon contingency planning, research and development, and other matters. The Obama administration's NPR may be of defining importance. Why is the Obama NPR particularly important? President Barack Obama wants his administration to be seen as offering something new and different, and ...
White House Gives Peek at Cybersecurity Strategy
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL News(March 3) -- Amid a growing chorus of concern over the nation's approach to cybersecurity, the White House has revealed a bare-bones outline of its secret plans to protect the nation from a cyberattack. But the 12-point document may do little to quell criticism that the Obama administration has failed to make clear its strategy for dealing with the growing threat of cyberwarfare. The government's approach to cybersecurity has been criticized as both overly secretive and not aggressive enough given the scope of the threat. The release of an unclassified description of the Comprehensive ...
Obama Proposes Another Surge in Military Spending
By Dale Eisman - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Feb. 1) – After moving last year to cancel or scale back some of the military's most expensive weapons programs, the Obama administration announced plans today to continue what has become an era of historic growth in defense spending. New spending blueprints unveiled at the Pentagon would push the U.S. military's budget to $708 billion next year, the most in inflation-adjusted dollars since World War II. The plan also would keep the military budget growing for years to come. About $159 billion (22 percent) of the 2011 total will support forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. The ...
Spending Freeze Could 'Hit the Congress Where It Lives'
By Tamara Lytle - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Jan. 26) – President Obama's proposal to freeze certain federal spending will have a tiny impact on the nation's deficit but a big one on some citizens who could see cuts to programs they rely on, according to budget experts. Obama wants to hold spending on $447 billion worth of domestic programs level for three years. That means no adjustment for inflation, population growth or demand for the particular service that's being cut. But Obama isn't including entitlement programs such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, which take up a big chunk of the budget. And he's ...
Administration Considers Federal Ban on Texting While Driving
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyTransportation Secretary Ray LaHood said he would support legislation to withhold federal funds from states that permit cellphone texting while driving. LaHood said he would like to see laws that punish states that allow the practice and also reward those that ban it, The Wall Street Journal reported. Congress is considering bills that would do both. Providing both penalties and incentives has been effective in getting states to put in place drunken-driving laws, LaHood told the paper. LaHood has said he favors a national ban on texting while driving but said he needed to study how to ...
White House Pressures Pakistan to Crack Down on Taliban
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyThe White House is warning Pakistan to do more to fight the Taliban inside its borders and keep the insurgents from carrying out attacks in Afghanistan. At a meeting last month, administration officials told Pakistani leaders if they don't turn up the heat on the Taliban, the U.S. will carry out more missions on Pakistan's side of the border, the New York Times reported. The meeting came before President Obama announced the Afghanistan troop surge. Gen. James Jones, the national security adviser, and White House counterterrorism chief John Brennan met in Pakistan with the heads of that ...
White House Pushes For Federal Safety Oversight of Subways, Light Rail
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyThe White House supports a plan calling for federal safety oversight of subway and light rail systems in the United States. Under the Obama administration proposal, the Transportation Department would either enforce safety rules itself or give states the option to do so with government guidance and money. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood introduced the plan after the collision of two subway trains in Washington last summer that killed nine people. Other accidents in San Francisco, Boston, Chicago and track-worker fatalities in Washington also contributed to the decision, Reuters reported. ...
President Obama to Convene Jobs Summit
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyPresident Obama said Thursday he will convene a meeting of White House officials, chief executives, small business owners and union leaders to discuss ways to create jobs and spur economic growth. Speaking at the White House before leaving for a tour of Asia, the president touted the steps his administration has taken to boost jobs, including cutting taxes on the middle class and extending unemployment benefits. But Obama admitted those moves have "not yet led to the job growth we desperately need," according to the Wall Street Journal. "We all know that there are limits to what government ...
Old Truck for New Truck the Most Common Cash-for-Clunker Trade
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyOf the thousands of Americans who took advantage of the government's $3 billion Cash for Clunkers program, most reportedly replaced old pickup trucks with new ones. A high percentage of the new trucks purchased in the program, designed to put more fuel-efficient cars on the road, get "only marginally better gas mileage" than the ones they replaced, according to an Associated Press analysis. The report looked at sales of $15.2 billion worth of vehicles at nearly 19,000 car dealerships. More than 8,200 buyers traded in an old Ford F150 pickup for a newer version of the same model, making it ...
Hope for Economic Recovery Fades as Obama Takes Reins
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyAmericans are decidedly pessimistic about the prospects of an economic turnaround anytime soon under President Barack Obama, a recent CNN poll finds. Fully 86 percent of the people surveyed think that an economic recovery will take at least two years to materialize, with 59 percent saying it will take longer. Just thirteen percent of respondents believe that President Obama and Congressional Democrats will be able to right the nation's economic ship in less than a year. The results betray a surprising lack of confidence in Obama, who was elected on a wave of optimism and hope that his very ...
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