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From Funding to Infrastructure, New Transportation Secretary Faces Major Problems

added on 2008-12-04 07:30:50 (Washington Post - Politics)

The next transportation secretary will walk into an agency that oversees an outdated air traffic control system; congested roads, rails and skies; crumbling highways and bridges; and a financing system teetering on collapse. ...more.

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N.Y. Congressman Rangel Incorrectly Got D.C. Tax Break

added on 2008-12-04 07:30:50 (Washington Post - Politics)

D.C. officials say that Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.), who recently has been buffeted by questions about his personal taxes and real estate dealings, was incorrectly given a tax break on a house he owned in the District. ...more.

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A Market-Oriented Economic Team

added on 2008-12-04 07:30:50 (Washington Post - Politics)

President-elect Barack Obama is assembling a deeply experienced team of top economic advisers whose key members firmly believe that limited government spending combined with free markets can create lasting prosperity. ...more.

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Domestic Adviser May Play Greater Role Under Obama

added on 2008-12-04 07:30:50 (Washington Post - Politics)

During her tenure as executive vice president of the Center for American Progress, Melody C. Barnes once described her work this way: ...more.

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Round of Pardons From Bush Includes No Household Names

added on 2008-12-04 07:30:50 (Washington Post - Politics)

Breaking a logjam of hundreds of pent-up clemency requests, President Bush yesterday granted pardons to 14 people and shortened the prison terms of two others. ...more.

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Former Biden Aide Ted Kaufman to Take Incoming Vice President's Senate Seat

added on 2008-12-04 07:30:50 (Washington Post - Politics)

Delaware Gov. Ruth Ann Minner (D) announced yesterday that she will appoint Edward E. "Ted" Kaufman, a friend and former aide to Vice President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr., to fill the Senate seat Biden will vacate until a special election can be held in two years. ...more.

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GAO Report Says Labor Department Misled Congress on Cost of Outsourcing Jobs

added on 2008-12-04 07:30:50 (Washington Post - Politics)

The Labor Department gave Congress inaccurate and unreliable numbers that understated the expense of contracting out its employees' work to private firms, according to a Government Accountability Office report released yesterday. ...more.

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President-Elect Barack Obama Announces Economic Team

added on 2008-12-04 07:30:50 (Washington Post - Politics)

SPEAKERS: PRESIDENT-ELECT BARACK OBAMA VICE PRESIDENT-ELECT JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR. [*] OBAMA: The news this past week, including this morning's news about Citigroup, has made it even more clear that we are facing an economic crisis of historic proportions. Our financial markets are under stress.... ...more.

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Democrats' Stimulus Plan May Reach $700 Billion

added on 2008-12-04 07:30:50 (Washington Post - Politics)

Facing an increasingly ominous economic outlook, President-elect Barack Obama and other Democrats are rapidly ratcheting up plans for a massive fiscal stimulus program that could total as much as $700 billion over the next two years. ...more.

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For Obama, White House Is an Unusually Big Transition

added on 2008-12-04 07:30:50 (Washington Post - Politics)

A familiar number showed up on Terry Link's cellphone last week, the one that belonged to the friend he tutored in politics, dominated in golf and sometimes referred to playfully as "Ears." At least once each week for almost a decade, the Illinois state senator had talked on the phone to Barack O... ...more.

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