Many Feds Face Furloughs Twice
Lawmakers Push Retroactive Furlough Pay
How Long Has the Shutdown Lasted?
In Focus: Who Faces Furloughs?
No TSP Contributions During a Shutdown
How Contractors Might Weather a Shutdown
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White House Has a Roach Problem
September 16, 2013 It was just a cockroach, one of millions around the world. But this one had a White House address, making it pretty special. Well, special at least to the reporters with workspace in the often-troubled basement of the press offices. Already this year, they have been treated to flooding, soaked ...
Is Obama Making it Harder to Take on Iran?
September 6, 2013 Anything a president does sets a precedent for the leaders who come after him. Except when it doesn’t. That is one constitutional reality brought home by President Obama’s unexpected decision to delay military action against Syria until Congress gives him authorization. With more than 200 examples to choose from in ...
Obama, Clinton, and Carter Represent Different Generations in Racial Struggles
August 28, 2013 The brightest spotlight Wednesday at the rally commemorating the 50th anniversary of the historic March on Washington will shine on President Obama. That is as it should be, for nothing better symbolizes the advances of a half-century than the presence of a twice-elected African-American president of the United States. But ...
Analysis: Why The Confirmation Process Is Completely Broken
July 19, 2013 President Obama returned recently from a 10-day trip to five countries in Europe and Africa, where he met with 12 world leaders. He carried into those meetings American initiatives, diplomatic proposals, and economic programs. But, more embarrassingly, he also brought with him signs of the dramatic dysfunction of Washington and ...
How NSA Surveillance Jeopardizes Obama's G-8 Trip to Europe
June 17, 2013
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President Obama's task in Europe this week, already daunting as the death toll in Syria mounts and the pressure for a more assertive U.S. policy there grows, has been made even more challenging by the recent disclosures of American surveillance in allied countries. The president arrives in Northern Ireland early ...
Benghazi E-Mails Reveal CIA Handling of Talking Points
May 16, 2013 The White House, in an effort to calm the swirl of controversy about the reaction to last year’s attacks on U.S. diplomats in Benghazi, late Wednesday released more than 100 pages of e-mails leading to the development of talking points that attempted to explain the violence that left four Americans ...
Analysis: Obama Is Still Fighting Bush's National Security Legacy
April 30, 2013 President Obama is 100 days into his second term, 1,561 days into his presidency. But Tuesday’s press conference left no doubt that the foreign policy legacy of former President George W. Bush very much remains a driving force at today’s White House. That was clear from how Obama answered questions ...
Analysis: When Presidents Gather, Let the Healing Begin
April 25, 2013 There will be a bit of history in Texas Thursday when President Obama joins the four living ex-presidents at the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum. After all, it isn’t often that so many presidents are together. The picture of Bush flanked by Presidents Barack Obama, ...
From Laced Letters to Terror Attacks, This Feels Like 2001
April 18, 2013 With a whole floor of the Hart Senate Office Building evacuated, mail delivery suspended, and a White House press secretary cautiously sidestepping questions Wednesday, the echoes of 2001 were too loud to ignore. Then, as now, the nation was recovering from a traumatic case of terrorism. Then, as now, homeland ...
Obama: Boston Marathon Bombings Are Acts of Terrorism
April 16, 2013 President Obama today declared that the bomb explosions at the Boston Marathon are now being investigated as terrorism, stating that “any time bombs are used to target innocent civilians, it is an act of terror.” But, appearing briefly in the White House briefing room, the president stressed that much is ...
