Federal Diary: Connolly seeks answers on long-term-care premiums, is skeptical about cuts in mail delivery
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on November 12th, 2009 5:34 am by HL
Federal Diary: Connolly seeks answers on long-term-care premiums, is skeptical about cuts in mail delivery
Gerald Connolly is an amateur thespian and a professional politician.
Honduras accord is on verge of collapse
Less than two weeks after U.S. diplomats announced a historic agreement to reverse a coup in Honduras, the accord is in danger of collapse and both Honduran officials and U.S. lawmakers are blaming American missteps for some of the failure.
Dodd confronts critics in regulation fight
Sen. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.) this week joined the generations of dreamers who have advocated for eliminating the nation’s muddle of bank regulators, arguing that a single agency would be more efficient and would end the ability of banks to choose the most lenient supervisor.
For Obama, as with his predecessors, defining China is challenge
When President Obama arrives in Shanghai and Beijing next week, he will face a prickly question that has vexed presidents since Richard M. Nixon first visited Mao Zedong in 1972: How exactly does the United States define its relationship with China?
Corrections
— In the Nov. 12 Local Living section, the MisFits column should have said that some White House employees have pedometers, not that employees of the Office of Management and Budget received pedometers at the White House.