Lawmakers Question Security Firm, Obama Official on U.S. Embassy Contract
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on June 11th, 2009 4:32 am by HL
Lawmakers Question Security Firm, Obama Official on U.S. Embassy Contract
Lawmakers grilled representatives of the State Department and a private security firm yesterday on the details and administration of a contract to provide protective services at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, suggesting that the company’s deficiencies in the past two years may have placed the compoun…
Top House Members Disclose Investments in Bailed-Out Firms
Top House lawmakers had considerable holdings in major financial institutions that took billions of dollars in taxpayer bailouts at the end of last year, according to annual financial disclosure reports released yesterday.
CBO Director in the Hot Seat as He Pepares to Put a Price on Health Reform
Douglas W. Elmendorf has toiled for much of his career in the anonymous bowels of the nation’s economic superstructure, shuttling among various Washington agencies and the Federal Reserve. So it came as a bit of a shock, friends say, when a powerful senior senator recently felt obliged to inform …