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1 Dec 2020, 9:42 pm by Carolyn Elefant
I’ve been listening to Barack Obama’s excellent memoir Promised Land which just ten chapters in, has dispelled a number of my misconceptions about Obama’s trajectory to the presidency. [read post]
1 Dec 2020, 7:16 am by Kevin Kaufman
At the end of 2015, the Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes (PATH) Act was passed by a Republican-controlled House and Senate and signed into law by President Barack Obama (D). [read post]
28 Nov 2020, 9:03 pm by Guest Contributor
After spending almost a decade in the drafting stage, the FDA created the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) that was signed into law by President Barack Obama on Jan. 4, 2011. [read post]
28 Nov 2020, 2:19 pm
John Brennan - who was director of the CIA from 2013 to 2017 under the administration of president Barack Obama - said he did not know who was to blame for the murder of Fakhrizadeh-Mahabad but labeled it a 'criminal' act. [read post]
25 Nov 2020, 7:39 am by Douglas A. Berman
McConnell had resisted bringing the First Step Act, which expanded release opportunities for federal prisoners, to the floor under former President Barack Obama and did so during the Trump administration only under extreme pressure. [read post]
24 Nov 2020, 10:16 pm by JD Hull
He made his predecessor Barack Obama look like a do-nothing, wimpy shadow. [read post]
23 Nov 2020, 9:03 pm by Brinna Ludwig
Both President Barack Obama and President George W. [read post]
22 Nov 2020, 7:29 pm by InternationalLaw Blogger
Blinken, 58, is a former deputy secretary of state under President Barack Obama who began his career at... [read post]
21 Nov 2020, 2:27 pm by Ilya Somin
In my book Democracy and Public Ignorance (published before Trump won in 2016), I noted how surveys taken more than a decade ago showed that some 25 percent of Americans endorsed "birther" claims that President Barack Obama was not a "natural born" citizen eligible for the presidency, and a similar percentage believed "truther" claims that President George W. [read post]
20 Nov 2020, 1:51 pm by Jordan Schneider
In his memoir The World as It Is, Ben Rhodes, Barack Obama’s closest national security aide, confides that, on the day Obama left the White House, the worry that haunted him most was: ‘What if we were wrong? [read post]
In 2014 former president Barack Obama proposed new protections for ANWR, declaring an additional 5 million acres of land to be designated “wilderness,” making them permanently off-limits to oil and gas drilling and other commercial development. [read post]
17 Nov 2020, 9:01 pm by Sherry F. Colb
The Court had granted certiorari on three questions regarding the Affordable Care Act, Barack Obama’s signal piece of legislation during his presidency. [read post]
17 Nov 2020, 10:36 am by David Priess
Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump differed in many ways as they prepared to assume the powers and duties of the office, but not on one score: They all shared a lack of significant exposure to national-level intelligence until the transition. [read post]
17 Nov 2020, 5:33 am by Sean Quirk
An uptick in Chinese military activity around Taiwan and China Coast Guard presence at the Senkakus have kept the region on edge. [read post]