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U.S. Offers Citigroup Expansive Safety Net

added on 2008-12-04 07:30:51 (Washington Post - Politics)

The government said last night that it will provide a multibillion-dollar backstop for Citigroup, revamping emergency efforts yet again to head off the failure of a company more deeply intertwined with the financial system than nearly any other. ...more.

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Experts Say Obama Must Build a Bipartisan Machine to Move Education Law

added on 2008-12-04 07:30:51 (Washington Post - Politics)

President-elect Barack Obama has made big promises to educators, parents and the nation's nearly 50 million public school students. He vowed to recruit an "army of new teachers," create better tests and give public schools more funding. He also said he would make college more affordable. ...more.

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Chicago Businesswoman to Be White House Social Secretary

added on 2008-12-04 07:30:51 (Washington Post - Politics)

Desirée Rogers, a prominent Chicago businesswoman and Harvard MBA, will be named the first African American White House social secretary, sources in the presidential transition office said yesterday. ...more.

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Media Notes: An Interview With Outgoing White House Press Secretary Dana Perino

added on 2008-12-04 07:30:51 (Washington Post - Politics)

The network stars were gone, the seats half empty and the questioning low-key as Dana Perino held a White House briefing last week, her biggest announcement that the administration would try to ease air traffic for the holidays. ...more.

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Banking Regulator Played Advocate Over Enforcer

added on 2008-12-04 07:30:51 (Washington Post - Politics)

When Countrywide Financial felt pressured by federal agencies charged with overseeing it, executives at the giant mortgage lender simply switched regulators in the spring of 2007. ...more.

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Problems Plague U.S. Flex-Fuel Fleet

added on 2008-12-04 07:30:51 (Washington Post - Politics)

The federal government has invested billions of dollars over the past 16 years, building a fleet of 112,000 alternative-fuel vehicles to serve as a model for a national movement away from fossil fuels. ...more.

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As President Bush's Term Comes to an End, Some Well-Known Offenders Seek Pardons

added on 2008-12-04 07:30:51 (Washington Post - Politics)

With a backlog of applications piled up at the Justice Department, high-profile criminals and their well-connected lawyers increasingly are appealing directly to President Bush for special consideration on pardons and clemency, according to people involved in the process. ...more.

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Obama Sets Expansive Goal for Jobs

added on 2008-12-04 07:30:51 (Washington Post - Politics)

President-elect Barack Obama is developing a plan to create or preserve 2.5 million jobs over the next two years by spending billions of dollars to rebuild roads and bridges, modernize public schools, and construct wind farms and other alternative sources of energy. ...more.

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Pollsters Debate America's Political Realignment

added on 2008-12-04 07:30:51 (Washington Post - Politics)

The 2008 election is history, but the battle over what it meant has just begun. ...more.

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Some in the Arab World Worry that Clinton Would Be More Hawk Than Dove

added on 2008-12-04 07:30:51 (Washington Post - Politics)

There is possibly no person President-elect Barack Obama considered for secretary of state who is more reliably pro-Israel than Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), the woman to whom he appears likely to give the job sometime after Thanksgiving. ...more.

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