Why Obama's wrong on lobbyists Kansas City Star, MO But Tony Podesta's biggest advantage is being the brother and former partner of John Podesta, who was Bill Clinton's final chief of staff and who headed Obama's presidential transition. It is hard not to see their respective silhouettes as expressions ... |
Obama's First 100 Days: How Should We Evaluate Him? HarvardBusiness.org, MA In this post, I'm going to lay out a framework for assessing Obama's transition into his new role. In subsequent posts, I will use this framework to render my judgments on how he has done so far. How should we assess President Obama's transition into ... |
Congress returns to immense agenda Christian Science Monitor, MA On global warming, he said: “Some have argued that we shouldn't attempt such a transition until the economy recovers, and they are right that we have to take the costs of transition into account. But we can no longer delay putting a framework for a ... |
Obama on a Record Pace for Nominations Roll Call (subscription), DC Johnson worked closely with both John Podesta, who chaired the Obama transition, and Chris Lu, who was its executive director and now serves as Cabinet secretary in the White House. Obama startled observers soon after the election by making a series of ... |
Van Jones: The Face of Green Jobs The Big Money, NY When he wasn't running his fix-poverty, fix-the-planet nonprofit in Oakland, he was seeding Obama's transition team with ideas for an all-encompassing environmental/labor/energy/economic plan that would push the country toward a green future. ... Van Jones: The Face of Green Jobs |
Senate Returns to Consider Nominations-in-Limbo Washington Post, United States Another candidate for that latter job is Frederick Barton, a highly regarded former AID official who was a member of the Obama transition review team on development assistance and chaired an Obama campaign team on post-conflict reconstruction. ... |
 The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com | Obama dog Bo should be a hard worker, full personality The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com, LA Lydia Fairbanks favors the breed so much as a family dog she wrote the Obamas three times -- one letter to the transition office and two to the White House -- to suggest they get a Portuguese water dog. Her children were 6 and 8 years old when she got ... |
Too harsh and uncompromising? Jerusalem Post, Israel By EMILY B. LANDAU It has become commonplace to assume that the transition from US president George W. Bush to Barack Obama signals a move away from a unilateral, harsh, uncompromising and even militant approach toward Iran to a newfound willingness to ... |
Dems put assault weapons ban on back burner San Francisco Chronicle, USA Obama's stance in Mexico represented a U-turn. He backed the ban during his presidential campaign. His transition team listed "making the expired federal assault weapons ban permanent" a goal of the administration. "I believe we need to renew - not ... |
Loan industry opposes Obama's proposal for college money Kansas City Star, MO It has hired two well-connected Democratic lobbyists: Tony Podesta, whose brother headed the Obama transition team, and Jamie Gorelick, a senior Justice Department official in the Clinton administration. The company has circulated draft legislation ... Serve students, not banks |
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