Obama to Decide Soon Whether to Add to Bailout
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on January 24th, 2009 5:31 am by HL
Obama to Decide Soon Whether to Add to Bailout
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are bracing for a fresh request from President Obama for another massive round of spending to shore up the nation’s faltering financial system, which could send the total price for the bailout soaring toward $1 trillion.
Obama Seeks GOP Backing for Stimulus
President Obama ramped up his personal lobbying campaign yesterday for an economic recovery package that would cost at least $820 billion, holding his first bipartisan gathering of congressional leaders at the White House and urging swift passage of the plan.
Despite Dramatic Change at White House, Pace of Filling in Departments Much More Slow
Sean Smith, 38, is an Obama newbie, freshly arrived at the Homeland Security Department on Nebraska Avenue. He has an interim ID badge, a computer, an e-mail account, a BlackBerry. He has gone through what is known in the bureaucracy as “in-processing.” By Thursday, Day Two of the job, he was…
Government Approves Study Using Human Embryonic Stem Cells
A California biotechnology company plans to launch the first government-approved clinical trial testing human embryonic stem cells on people by next summer after receiving federal approval yesterday.
