Obama Report Finds Nothing Improper in Staff’s Contact With Blagojevich
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on December 24th, 2008 5:35 am by HL
Obama Report Finds Nothing Improper in Staff’s Contact With Blagojevich
White House Chief of Staff-designate Rahm Emanuel spoke “one or two” times with Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and “about four” times with the governor’s chief of staff but did not engage in any inappropriate discussions about who should be appointed to Barack Obama’s vacant Senate seat, according…
For Stimulus Plan, Obama Team Weighing ‘Green’ Jobs vs. Traditional Projects
In one of the first internal struggles of the incoming Obama administration, environmentalists and smart-growth advocates are trying to shift the priorities of the economic stimulus plan that will be introduced in Congress next month away from allocating tens of billions of dollars to highways,…
Obama Administration May Tie Improved Nutrition to Food Assistance Programs
The worsening economic crunch is causing the tab for food assistance programs to balloon, and with the rising costs has come an intensifying debate over whether — and how — the U.S. government can tackle simultaneously the paradoxically linked problems of hunger and obesity.
