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12 Aug 2021, 10:01 am by Michael C. Dorf
One tangible indication of the change is that Mondale was the first Vice President to have an office in the White House, as opposed to solely in the Old Executive Office Building (now officially called the Eisenhower Executive Office Building).By most accounts, George H.W. [read post]
9 May 2016, 9:30 pm by Rena Steinzor
The opposition party made clear, almost as soon as President Barack Obama was elected, that over-regulation would remain among its most shrill and pervasive battle cries. [read post]
22 Jan 2015, 11:10 am by Sebastian Brady
In a move signalling the GOP’s increasing willingness to challenge President Barack Obama’s foreign policy, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address a joint session of Congress. [read post]
19 Apr 2012, 9:00 pm by Mima Mohammed
See Related RegBlog post.The White House indicated that President Barack Obama will renominate Republican Kristine Svinicki to a new term on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, drawing criticism from Democrats.The Federal Reserve announced it will not enforce the Volcker Rule against banks until 2014. [read post]
6 Jan 2016, 3:40 pm by Cody M. Poplin
White House Spokesman Josh Earnest said that the initial data was “not consistent with North Korea claims of a successful hydrogen bomb test. [read post]
It’s worth noting that Beijing has previously made similar promises in 2016 with then-US President Barack Obama and in 2018 with then-US President Donald Trump, with limited follow-through on those commitments. [read post]
30 Aug 2016, 12:39 pm by Rishabh Bhandari
The White House announced on Monday that President Barack Obama will meet Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan next week for the first time since the botched coup attempt last month. [read post]
15 Feb 2017, 9:30 am by Jordan Brunner
Calling the prison a “vital mission,” and “an invaluable asset,” and criticizing former President Barack Obama’s “blatant disregard for the safety of the American people,” the eleven senators supported “expanding the utilization of the detention facility during your administration by detaining current and future enemy combat [read post]
23 Nov 2015, 1:14 pm by Elina Saxena, Cody M. Poplin
With French President Hollande expected to meet with President Obama in Washington on Tuesday and President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Thursday, the White House will work to ensure that “Hollande sticks with the international effort to punish and isolate Vladimir Putin for his aggression in Ukraine. [read post]
2 Jul 2016, 7:54 am by Rishabh Bhandari
David Ryan dissected the “FOIA Improvement Act of 2016” that President Barack Obama signed into law on Thursday night. [read post]
28 Dec 2017, 2:15 pm by Jacob Sapochnick
For those that disagreed with President Trump’s policies, the choice was clear, but for those that had endured eight years under Barack Obama, an unfamiliar face in politics was the answer. [read post]
13 May 2009, 12:00 pm
No surprise there with Barack Obama in the White House. [read post]
29 Jan 2009, 3:02 am
Nothing more than too-much-to-do accounts for our not yet mentioning changes to the United States' foreign policy on family planning this past week.Included in a a flurry of executive action, about which we've posted here and here and here, was President Barack Obama's restoration of U.S. funding for global organizations whose health-care activities include counseling about, advocacy for, or performance of abortions. [read post]
10 Aug 2018, 4:02 am by Edith Roberts
Robert Barnes reports for The Washington Post that “[a] Senate committee released a sliver of the voluminous White House record of Supreme Court nominee Brett M. [read post]
3 Apr 2009, 6:12 pm
But for those of us who think the estate tax plays a vital rule in preventing the concentration of economic (and, as important, political) power in the hands of a few elites, it was heartening to see the Congressional tax writing committees taken over by Democrats, and then to see the White House occupied by Barack Obama. [read post]
12 Jul 2022, 11:44 am by Neil H. Buchanan
  But as an initial matter, I readily concede that the Republicans' insistence on running with that utterly contrived grievance spawned many a column in my formative years writing on Dorf on Law and Verdict.Even more egregiously, we need only look at my initial reaction to news that Republicans in late 2010 (after retaking the House of Representatives in President Obama's first midterm election) were planning to use the debt ceiling statute to hold… [read post]
9 Feb 2016, 2:34 pm by Alex R. McQuade, Cody M. Poplin
Today, President Barack Obama tendered his FY 2017 budget request in which he proposed a 35 percent increase in cybersecurity funding. [read post]
18 May 2021, 9:03 pm by Safaa Aly
President Biden’s 2020 platform promised to do so by restoring the White House Eid celebration and by filling the absent position of Muslim-American Liaison in the White House Office of Public Engagement—two actions that, although positive, leave much to be desired. [read post]
13 May 2011, 12:39 pm by Tony Mauro
For example, FOIA does not cover documents held by certain offices within the White House. [read post]