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18 Sep 2018, 9:01 pm
As an Ivy-educated Democratic lawyer-turned-politician with a strong impulse towards bipartisanship, Booker may seem to be cut from the same cloth as former President Obama. [read post]
18 Sep 2018, 6:04 pm
Anyway, the phrase means to do something that unwittingly advantages your opponent.In my search, I ran across the phrase in the famous and tragically hilarious NYT article "The Aspiring Novelist Who Became Obama’s Foreign-Policy Guru/How Ben Rhodes rewrote the rules of diplomacy for the digital age" (May 2016):With three hours to go until the president’s address to Congress, Rhodes grabs a big Gatorade and starts combing through the text of the State of the Union… [read post]
18 Sep 2018, 10:45 am
District Court for the District of South Carolina, Charleston Division, issued a nationwide injunction to the Trump administration’s so-called “Suspension Rule,” which called for the delayed effective date of the Obama-era “waters of the United States rule” (or “WOTUS Rule”). [read post]
18 Sep 2018, 8:47 am
” The discussion of Iran—or, rather, “nonproliferation, constitutionalism and sovereignty”—comes amid a public feud between current Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his Obama-era counterpart, John Kerry. [read post]
18 Sep 2018, 8:39 am
The proposed rule mirrors the standard that the Board tried to put into place in its now-vacated December 2017 Hy-Brand Industrial Contractors, Ltd. decision, which would have overturned the more expansive Obama-era standard installed under the Board’s 2015 Browning-Ferris decision. [read post]
18 Sep 2018, 5:49 am
Indirect influence and contractual reservations of authority would no longer be sufficient to establish a joint-employer relationship.The new rule would make entities less likely to be joint employers as compared to teh Obama-era standard. [read post]
17 Sep 2018, 9:01 pm
” The Obama administration chose to deal quietly with the possible ICC investigation. [read post]
17 Sep 2018, 2:18 pm
In this regard, Bloomberg, by Toluse Olorunnipa and Sho Chandra, report in Americans Are Making Less Money Despite Trump’s Promises, that, real wages have remained mostly stagnant despite an expanding economy, record stock prices, soaring corporate profits and a giant deficit-fueled stimulus from Trump’s tax cuts… [But] [i]nflation-adjusted hourly wages dropped 0.2 percent in July from a year earlier, their worst reading since 2012 … They’ve grown at an average… [read post]
17 Sep 2018, 2:18 pm
In this regard, Bloomberg, by Toluse Olorunnipa and Sho Chandra, report in Americans Are Making Less Money Despite Trump’s Promises, that, real wages have remained mostly stagnant despite an expanding economy, record stock prices, soaring corporate profits and a giant deficit-fueled stimulus from Trump’s tax cuts… [But] [i]nflation-adjusted hourly wages dropped 0.2 percent in July from a year earlier, their worst reading since 2012 … They’ve grown at an average… [read post]
17 Sep 2018, 10:03 am
While the use of marijuana is still a federal crime, an Obama-era memorandum allowed for states that have legalized marijuana use to handle such issues on... [read post]
17 Sep 2018, 6:30 am
These debates gained steam during the Obama presidency, as congressional gridlock led the President to rely heavily on administrative agencies to advance an ambitious and controversial policy agenda. [read post]
16 Sep 2018, 9:01 pm
In books like The Commanders (1991), Woodward exposed the contentious internal debates of the first Bush administration in almost real time, a favor he repeated for subsequent administrations in The Agenda (1994), The Choice (1996), Bush at War (2002), Plan of Attack (2004), State of Denial (2006), The War Within (2008), Obama’s Wars (2010) and The Price of Politics (2012).Each book featured lively dialogue (frank, contentious, and often profane) among the most powerful politicians… [read post]
16 Sep 2018, 9:13 am
That’s a nearly four-fold increase over 2016, the last year of the Obama administration. [read post]
16 Sep 2018, 7:00 am
President Barack Obama declared the world to be a “better place” after bin Laden’s death. [read post]
16 Sep 2018, 6:57 am
President Obama, who cared about such matters, issued wide-ranging Executive Orders and Policy Directives about it. [read post]
16 Sep 2018, 4:17 am
This was done by the very deliberate unilateral fiat of OCR bureaucrats during the Obama Administration, who pursued a series of lies (which became truths in the minds of the afflicted) and cures for those lies based upon a series of “Dear Colleague” letters and explanatory notes whose sole purpose was to compel and foregone conclusion that female students would have a means by which to vindicate their every emotional sexualized harm at the hands of male students. [read post]
15 Sep 2018, 5:00 pm
I'm willing to bet she was outraged that Senate Republicans did not bring President Obama's last nominee to the high court, Merrick Garland, to a vote in 2016. [read post]
15 Sep 2018, 2:27 pm
While Trump is an extreme case, more conventional politicians, including Barack Obama, have also manipulated public ignorance to their advantage. [read post]
15 Sep 2018, 10:58 am
Haley is the current ambassador to the United Nations, the decision on leasing the ambassador’s residence and purchasing the curtains was made during the Obama administration, according to current and former officials. [read post]
14 Sep 2018, 9:30 pm
Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) methane rule, issued under the Obama Administration. [read post]
