Obama Attorney General Pick Eric Holder Facing Increasing Criticism
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on January 10th, 2009 5:29 am by HL
Obama Attorney General Pick Eric Holder Facing Increasing Criticism
Eric H. Holder Jr. is facing increasing resistance to his bid to become the next attorney general, emerging from President-elect Barack Obama’s Cabinet nominees as the prime target of Senate Republicans, both because of troubling episodes during his service in the Clinton administration and because…
Charges Dropped Against Former White House Budget Chief Stockman
Reagan-era White House budget chief David A. Stockman told everybody who would listen that he was innocent of fraud charges after he was indicted in New York nearly two years ago.
Blagojevich Answers Impeachment Vote
SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Jan. 9 — A defiant Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) held a news conference full of poetry and political theater yesterday to answer a nearly unanimous impeachment vote by the Illinois House of Representatives, capping another episode of Illinois politics that is fast making the state,…
White House chef will stay on for Obama term
WASHINGTON — One thing President-elect Barack Obama won’t be changing: the White House chef.
Obama Under Pressure On Interrogation Policy
President-elect Barack Obama introduced his nominees to head his national security team on Friday. But now Obama begins a perilous balancing act to fulfill his pledge to make a clean break with the detention and interrogation policies of the Bush administration while still effectively ensuring the…
