As the administration struggles to get on top of the spreading foreclosure scandal, State Attorneys General threaten to make Washington look feckless Wednesday by announcing a 40-state joint investigation into whether big banks and their associates forced people from their homes using questionable foreclosure documents.
The …
Over the weekend, the U.S. State department warned Americans living in or traveling to Europe that “al Qaeda and affiliated organizations continue to plan terrorist attacks” there. This is not news: scarcely a day has passed in nine years without someone from the White House, Homeland Security or the State department telling …
CQ reports a deal, months in the making, between Pelosi and the White House on tougher Congressional oversight of covert intelligence programs. Pelosi had taken a surprisingly hard line over the summer, bucking an Obama veto threat to insist on a pair of new watchdog measures: first, that the GAO be given the power to audit covert …
The FDA yesterday imposed some fairly strong restrictions on the use of the controversial diabetes drug Avandia. The handling of the matter by Obama’s FDA chief, Margaret Hamburg, and her deputy, Joshua Sharfstein, offers one take on the administration’s approach to regulation and it’s not black and white. Those interested in the debate …
Presidents Barack Obama and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will deliver speeches at the United Nations General Assembly in New York Thursday, but it’s more interesting to note who isn’t speaking about Iran this week: critics of the Obama administration’s “dual-track” diplomatic approach to the Islamic Republic. These critics traditionally …
Being a difficult, occasionally bullying, intellectual powerhouse, Larry Summers has always drawn fierce attacks: political, personal or otherwise. And his time at the White House has been no different: whether for backers of outgoing CEA chief Christine Romer on the left or former OMB head Peter Orzag on the right, Summers became the …
The release, moments after Bloomberg moved the story:
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
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For Immediate Release September 21, 2010
Dr. Lawrence H. Summers, Director of the National Economic Council, to
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Obama will NOT nominate Elizabeth Warren to be the interim director of the powerful Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) tomorrow. What he will do is name her Assistant to the President and Special Advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury on CFPB, administration sources say. Tangled politics, both within the executive branch …
Former Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson joins Hillary Clinton and the chorus blaming the media for Rev. Terry Jones today, arguing that by covering the would-be Koran desecrator we enabled the creation of “something new, something that will be studied for generations: the propaganda of the idiotic gesture.”
On the contrary, the …
