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EPA Moves Unilaterally to Curb Greenhouse Gases
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON - Stymied in Congress, the Obama administration is moving unilaterally to clamp down on power plant and oil refinery greenhouse emissions, announcing plans for developing new standards over the next year. In a statement posted on the agency's website late Thursday, Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa Jackson said the aim was to better cope with pollution contributing to climate change. "We are following through on our commitment to proceed in a measured and careful way to reduce GHG pollution that threatens the health and welfare of Americans," Jackson said in a ...
Helen Thomas' Front-Row Seat Goes to AP; Fox News Moves Up
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyIt's like being back in elementary school again in the White House briefing room: Some seating assignments have finally changed in the wake of Helen Thomas' retirement earlier this summer. The Associated Press has gotten Thomas' front-row-center seat, with Fox News moving up to the front row, ensconced in AP's old seat. NPR shifts to the second-row seat previously held by Fox. The changes were approved by the board of the White House Correspondents Association. "It was a very difficult decision," the board said in a statement, noting that it "received requests from Bloomberg and NPR ...
Obama Urges Senate to Pass Unemployment Extension
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(July 19) -- In anticipation of Tuesday's unemployment extension vote in the Senate, President Barack Obama made an appearance in the Rose Garden this morning to urge legislators to pass a bill that would extend the period to apply for unemployment aid through the end of November. With last week's appointment of Carte Goodwin to the late Robert Byrd's vacated West Virginia Senate seat, the bill is expected to pass. During his remarks, Obama repeatedly criticized Republican opposition for using "parliamentary maneuvers" to prevent the bill from passing and, he said, withholding necessary aid ...
White House Investing $800 Million to Revive Bankrupt GM Sites
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyThe Obama administration is investing more than $800 million to create jobs and help clean up shuttered auto plants in areas affected by General Motors' bankruptcy. The money will be dispensed to about 90 sites in 14 states, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. It will be used to help find new uses for abandoned factories and pay for property taxes. "The framework announced today is a truly meaningful step in our collective charge to ensure that workers and families in auto communities from coast to coast have the opportunity to take part in my mission of providing good jobs for ...
Laura Bush: The Real Reason Behind Her One-Dimensional Legacy
By Eleanor Clift - Politics DailyI admit to having a soft spot for Laura Bush, and I wasn't the only reporter in Washington who felt that way during her eight years as first lady. She got mostly favorable press, and her approval ratings remained high even as her husband's tanked. She was always so sedate and dignified that she provided a welcome contrast to her Texas cowboy husband. There was evidence that she'd once been a Democrat, and rumors that she might be pro-choice, which made her hard to pigeonhole. But as the years went by, Laura Bush pigeonholed herself with her hyper-cautiousness about ever appearing to be at ...
White House Asks Congress For $10 Million to Fight Oil Spill Lawsuits
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyAnticipating a flurry of lawsuits related to the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the White House has asked Congress for $10 million to finance a legal war chest. The request is part of a legislative package President Barack Obama sent to the House to help respond to the Gulf disaster and future spills, The Wall Street Journal reported. The $10 million would pay for "litigation expenses related to affirmative and defensive litigation associated with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill that may not qualify as recoverable from the Responsible Parties or the Oil Spill Liability Trust ...
Top White House Lawyer Daniel Meltzer Resigns, Will Return to Harvard
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyDaniel Meltzer, a top administration lawyer who has worked on a host of high-profile issues for President Obama, will step down next month and return to academia, the White House announced Friday. Meltzer's last day as the principal deputy counsel to President Obama will be June 1, The New York Times reported. He will go back to his tenured position as a professor at Harvard Law School, where he teaches courses on the federal courts. "He's done everything," former White House counsel Gregory Craig, who picked Meltzer as his deputy, told the Times. "It's going to be a great loss for the ...
Timeline of White House Response to Times Square Bombing Attempt
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyOn Tuesday the White House released the following timeline of official actions following the weekend bombing attempt in New York's Times Square: Saturday, May 1 9:30 p.m. White House Situation Room notifies the National Security staff that an apparent car bomb had been discovered in Times Square. 10:44 p.m. John Brennan, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, speaks briefly about the incident with David Cohen, the Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence for the New York Police Department. 10:50 p.m. – midnight: John Brennan provides President Obama ...
White House: Gov. Charlie Crist Never Reached Out to Rahm Emanuel
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyThe White House is denying reports that Florida Gov. Charlie Crist reached out to Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel seeking administration support if he chose to run for the Senate as a Democrat. "It's not true," a spokesperson for the Chief of Staff's office told The Huffington Post Monday. Rumors had been circulating on blogs and in the press about Crist calling Emanuel to discuss a possible jump to the Democrats. The Atlantic reported Wednesday that Crist tried to contact the administration "through intermediates" and that the White House refused to take the call. Crist announced Thursday ...
Obama's 'Main Street' Tour Rolling to Heartland, Selling Econ Rebound
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyPresident Obama is taking his so-called Main Street Tour to the heart of the Midwest next week, leaving the Washington bubble to pitch his jobs message to families in Iowa, Illinois and Missouri. The two-day swing beginning April 27 follows similar visits to Pennsylvania, Ohio and Georgia -- part of a White House strategy of explaining to average Americans how the president's policies are aiding the economic recovery, while also acknowledging the scarcity of jobs and continuing hard times for many people. "President Obama will meet with workers, farmers, small business owners and local ...
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